Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the counts of Flanders were in the vanguard , with Robert the Frisian and Robert II offering protection for merchants crossing the county and their peace for the duration of fairs . |
| 2 | all too often produce defensive or even hostile reactions : the more so because there is rarely the opportunity for teachers to discuss the points directly with the inspectors . |
| 3 | Periods of normal science provide the opportunity for scientists to develop the esoteric details of a theory . |
| 4 | In many ways , the St Lawrence belugas have provided a perfect opportunity for scientists to study the effects of contaminants on a wild whale population , since they are isolated from other groups , and live in a river system known to be contaminated . |
| 5 | It gave an opportunity for entrepreneurs to acquire the lands , workshops , fishponds and mines which the monks had worked , and to integrate them into the developing secular economy . |
| 6 | There is an opportunity for agencies to redefine the business they want to be in , and find ways of building business and opportunity in areas once not perceived as part of advertising . ’ |
| 7 | The preview offers a unique opportunity for guests to view the show without crowds from 7 pm to 9 pm and to enjoy complimentary champagne and canapés . |
| 8 | On Friday 17 July there will be an opportunity for graduates to visit the Social Sciences Faculty 's new building in Woodland Road and to hear presentations by some of the Faculty 's leading researchers . |
| 9 | The more ancient Antarctic specimens provide an opportunity for meteoriticists to compare the types of planetary debris that followed orbits around the Sun and across the Earth 's path half a million years ago , with those colliding with the Earth today . |
| 10 | A period as a hospital inpatient is an opportunity for patients to break the habit , particularly those who have disease related to smoking or are at high risk , such as those with diabetes . |
| 11 | However , in Smith v South Wales Switchgear Ltd [ 1978 ] 1 WLR 165 the House of Lords held that a clause in a contract for services requiring the contractor to indemnify the employer against " any loss , claim or proceedings whatsoever arising out of or in the course of the execution of the order " did not apply to require an indemnity in respect of injuries caused by the employer 's negligence . |
| 12 | But TODAY can reveal the contract for signals controlling the track to London 's Docklands has been given to a firm called Alcatel , which has manufacturing bases in Germany and Canada . |
| 13 | But the amelioration policy , filtered through the structures of local government in the West Indies , could only work properly if the case for planters recognising the virtues of a movement towards free labour was urgent . |
| 14 | The select committee retorted : ‘ Once the case for funds to meet the maintenance backlog has been made out it is the task of the department and the minister … . to use their best endeavours to get the money made available . ’ |
| 15 | In 1938 Sartre , who by his own admission was still mystified to the core by bourgeois idealist presuppositions , would have had little sympathy for theories linking the technical structure of the novel to the historical reality of contemporary French society . |
| 16 | The writer has great sympathy for hauliers confronting the intricacies of the tachograph legislation . |
| 17 | The charity to benefit this year is Leukaemia Research , and Lisburn 's own golden girl Mary Peters has made a plea for runners to help the valuable work of this group by obtaining sponsorship . |
| 18 | The first part concludes with a rationale and plea for teachers to adopt the action research approach , stressing the distinction between the teacher as technician and as reflective practitioner . |
| 19 | Rob Collister , president of Britain 's mountain guides , has made a plea for guides to set the example to the climbing community of the virtues of adventure climbing over convenience climbing . |
| 20 | It pledges their support for efforts to protect the Stockton Darlington Railway Line . |
| 21 | While the UK and the USA reportedly expressed support for plans to transform the nine-member Paris-based Western European Union ( WEU ) [ see p. 37212 ] into the basis of a cohesive European defence pillar for NATO , other member states , notably France , Germany and Italy , saw the WEU as evolving into a genuine European security and defence policy . |
| 22 | The current concern with concepts of ‘ function ’ and ‘ notion ’ contrasting with syntactic and morphological analysis of language highlight the necessity for teachers to understand the nature of a description of a language . |
| 23 | The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution , which advises the UK government , wants scientists to take personal responsibility for experiments involving the genetic modification of plants and animals . |
| 24 | Michael Caine stars as cat burglar Henry Clarke , a master jewel thief who has himself committed to a sanatorium for alcoholics to gain the confidence of a multi-millionaire . |
| 25 | Good , well thought out industrial or commercial experience for teachers provides the opportunity to spot the exciting curriculum vehicles and identify the challenging and enterprising educational opportunities . |
| 26 | However , reversal from left to right visual field superiority was observed by Kaufer , Morais and Bertelson ( 1975 ) when they investigated the effect of presenting a Landolt 's ring at fixation for subjects to report the position of a small gap in the ring prior to recalling the stimuli presented in the left and right visual fields . |
| 27 | In 1988 , Action for Cities announced the development of a Safer Cities scheme , designed to reduce urban crime . |
| 28 | The programme for students completing the final year of the Ordinary degree contains , in addition to the two themes above , a unit in Industrial Computing Systems , which focuses on the use of a range of systems in industrial environments . |
| 29 | Murdock 's investigations of coal gas were a direct result of his search for materials to preserve the bottom of ships . |
| 30 | In a title search , for example , a search for an incomplete or garbled title would lead to the choice of a title index display or a search for titles containing the words of the search , and thenceforth behave rather as if it were doing a subject search . |