Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 20% of the business that existed in 1986 still forms part of the group today and the group has increased its market capitalisation over that time from £250m to £1.3bn . |
| 2 | From his vantage point high in the new stand Golden Miller , five times winner of the Gold Cup , pricks his ears . |
| 3 | The Supervisory Skills course from the Institute 's CAL programme has been highly commended by the International Foundation for Computer-based Education in Banking and Finance . |
| 4 | By his statement of claim , the plaintiff alleged that on July 6 , 1932 , the defendants by their solicitor , a Mr. Kennard , verbally agreed with him that , if he would on July 7 , 1932 , pay the £208 in cash into a bank at Eastbourne for the credit of the solicitor 's firm at the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England , that payment would satisfy all sums that he owed them and a bankruptcy notice which they had issued in respect of part of the debt would not be served on him . |
| 5 | Macnaghten J. dealt with the question whether the action is maintainable on the ground of the principle of Foakes v. Beer ( above , p.240 ) , to which I have referred , and he says : ‘ In the present case the jury , by their verdict , have found that on July 6 Mr. Kennard made an offer that if , on the following day , the plaintiff obtained the money and paid it into a bank at Eastbourne with instructions to remit it to the account of Stanley Evans & Co. at the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England , he would not serve the bankruptcy notice . |
| 6 | Moreover , we can not understand why the 10% contribution estimated to have been made from this source to total aggregates provision in the past was added to , rather than subtracted from , projected future demand ( PIP 2.7 ) . |
| 7 | Moreover , we can not understand why the 10% contribution estimated to have been made from this source to total aggregates provision in the past was added to , rather than subtracted from , projected future demand ( PIP 2.7 ) . |
| 8 | The guidelines for aggregates provision in the North Wales region under MPG6 indicates that while the proportion of supply from primary sources will decline from over 90% at present to around 20% in 2011 ( still requiring an absolute increase of over 4 million tonnes per annum to meet rising demand ) , the supply from secondary and recycled sources is expected to increase from 10% to over 70% during this period . |
| 9 | The guidelines for aggregates provision in the North Wales region under MPG6 indicates that while the proportion of supply from primary sources will decline from over 90% at present to around 20% in 2011 ( still requiring an absolute increase of over 4 million tonnes per annum to meet rising demand ) , the supply from secondary and recycled sources is expected to increase from 10% to over 70% during this period . |
| 10 | The guidelines for aggregates provision in the South Wales region under MPG6 indicates that while the proportion of supply met from primary land sources will decline from 65% to about 45% over the period from 1991 to 2011 ( although requiring an absolute increase of up to 4 million tonnes per annum to meet rising demand ) , coastal super quarries are anticipated to supply almost 30% of demand during the last five years of this period . |
| 11 | The guidelines for aggregates provision in the South Wales region under MPG6 indicates that while the proportion of supply met from primary land sources will decline from 65% to about 45% over the period from 1991 to 2011 ( although requiring an absolute increase of up to 4 million tonnes per annum to meet rising demand ) , coastal super quarries are anticipated to supply almost 30% of demand during the last five years of this period . |
| 12 | Temporal periodicity is fairly self-evident It is the number of times part of the display cycles from light to dark to light again in each second . |
| 13 | As mountaineers , we would long remember the great companionship that made the expedition so successful ; the days spent on ice faces or silver crests ; the extensive views west along the Karakoram chain . |
| 14 | The planets orbit around the sun . |
| 15 | Specifically though the European Programmes Division with the department will lead the development of our programmes in Eastern Europe . |
| 16 | The Commissioner for the Rights of Trade Union Members-A Framework for the Future ? |
| 17 | If you have made your queries part of the interview and done your background research thoroughly the answer to the interviewer 's question may well be ‘ No , you have already explained everything very thoroughly thank you ’ . |
| 18 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 19 | Such examples can easily be multiplied without going beyond the bounds of the county of Stirling , The Honourable William Elphinstone , a gentleman active in the politics of both Dunbartonshire and Stirlingshire , was three times chairman of the East India Company and always maintained close relations with the shipping interest , having himself commanded the East Indiaman Tryton before becoming a director , while the Haldanes of Airthrey , significant in the political life of Perth , Dunbarton and Stirlingshire , had similar connections with the Indian shipping interest . |
| 20 | ON SEPTEMBER 5 — a week before he was first seen on campus — Marc Lepine acquired a firearms certificate from the Sûreté du Quebec . |
| 21 | On 18 December , Stephen H. Greene , assistant administrator of the operations division of the DEA , described at some length how a ‘ controlled delivery ’ worked and agreed that the DEA often used the technique . |
| 22 | The water supplies of Hargeisa , Somalia 's second city , are at risk from a massive spillage of pesticides from the unoccupied operations base of the Desert Locust Control Organization for East Africa . |
| 23 | In 1904–8 Malcolm worked in the military operations directorate of the War Office during the period of reform associated with R. B. Brett , second Viscount Esher [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | Most of this happens in three dimensions and is best seen from this canal as roads snake through the air in all directions . |
| 25 | [ 3 times holder of the title Afro Hairdresser of the year . ] |
| 26 | Great Sexual Disasters , The Books of Mistaikes , Knitability , is founder of the National Scrabble Championship , and is three times holder of the record for the world 's longest after-dinner speech ? |
| 27 | He began in the then Sales Department and has retained a special interest in the public house operations side of the business . |
| 28 | An example from Lansbury Hotels is operations manager , now in his thirties , who began his career at Lansbury washing dishes at the age of 15 and is now responsible for the operations side of the business . |
| 29 | The proceedings were dominated by the developing study skills programme within the school , and it was this which the evaluators were assured was the major thrust of the school 's post-project library development . |
| 30 | With the exception of Whitburn New the standard of effluent set by the Forth River Purification Board is the Royal Commission Standard ie BOD 20 mg/l which is dependent on at least 8 times dilution in the receiving waters to achieve a river water quality adequate to support fish life . |