Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [adj] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 A spokesman for the consortium lead firm , HDW in Kiel , confirmed that the contract for the two 1,550-tonne diesel-powered submarines had been signed .
2 If that 's the big success that everyone predicts , Donington could keep the European Grand Prix and emerge as a rival to Silverstone when the latter 's contract for the British Grand Prix runs out in l996 .
3 I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs .
4 Er we do actually have money in the budget for the actual erm
5 I wish to make a simple plea about the 20 per cent .
6 In August 1942 a violent clash occurred between a small group of armed Falangists and a crowd of Carlists attending a memorial mass for the latter 's war-dead .
7 one or two on the island here who got a bit for the that er damage with the storm .
8 On the level of er drugs and alcohol though we 're concerned to provide more social work time and support for the voluntary er agencies that are working in this field and also to provide direct services to people who are using drugs .
9 While crossing the grassy plain , the intoxicating heat of the sun had made him a little light-headed , and intense feelings of tenderness for the unknown Moi girl had begun to sweep through him .
10 Table 1 shows the geometric centres of isotope in the ileocolonic segment after the concomitant 5HT and the series of ip drugs were given .
11 An example of a respectable product which embraces the full potential of GUIs is Texas Instrument 's debugger for its TMS320C30 evaluation module — it has the same screen format as the simulator for the new TMS320C40 ) .
12 Other reports suggest IBM 's Highly Parallel Supercomputing Laboratory is working on an Intel Corp 80860-based multi-processing system — codenamed Vulcan — for this year as a stop gap between the current RS/6000s and a 64-bit RS/6000 due late next year dubbed Envoy , which will go head-to-head with DEC 's Alpha RISC systems .
13 The device was also hailed as the next step in Inmos 's technological evolution , filling the gap between the former T2 , 4 and 8 families and the proposed modular ‘ Chameleon ’ product line ( CI No 2,137 ) .
14 The arrival of the T9000 Transputer last week was hailed as the next step in Inmos Ltd 's technological evolution , filling the gap between the former T2 , 4 and 8 families and the proposed modular ‘ Chameleon ’ product line .
15 The defence argument was solely that Caldwell could be distinguished on the grounds that in DPP v K there was a gap between the accused 's act and the injury , an argument which the court rejected .
16 Amanieu VII 's marriage to Rose de Bourg brought with it important landed possessions around Bourg and Blaye ; his daughter Mathe married Renaud de Pons , lord of Bergerac , in 1314 , and was to give the Albret a significant foothold on the borders of Périgord ; while Amanieu 's son , Bérard I ( d. 1346 ) who was lord of Vayres and Vertheuil in the Entre-deux-Mers , acquired the castles and lordships of Langoiran and Podensac for his cadet son Amanieu through the latter 's marriage to Mabille d'Escossan in 1345 .
17 Zanardi , who partners Johnny Herbert , is still recovering from his huge practice shunt at Spa-Francorchamps in practice for the Belgian Grand Prix and is not expected to be given the go-ahead to race .
18 In a further development on Dec. 12 the New York Times reported on a plan put forward by the US Army Chief of Staff , Gen. Carl Vuono , called " Strategic force for the 1990 's and beyond " , which envisaged a cut of one-third of US forces in Europe by 1995 , from 305,000 to 200,000 .
19 The self-imposed exile of the handsome flâneur , the Honourable Bertie Cecil , hero of Ouida 's Under Two Flags , and his secret , heroic service with the French against the Arabs in North Africa , depends in the same way on the reader 's acceptance of social and military codes of honour strained to the limit to provide a sensational story .
20 In fact it took a series of political blunders on Callaghan 's part to spoil Labour 's chances of being re-elected , faute de mieux , as the responsible and sober ‘ party of government ’ : the seemingly endless postponement of the election while the party 's parliamentary position crumbled , requiring the prop of transparent chicanery ; the unenforceable wishful thinking of the 5 per cent pay limit , the last straw for the unions .
21 Then we had to change the Unions to Newsize and er I er I became National President of the Newsize er district inspectors branch of Newsize Yes I was president till I retired .
22 As a new appreciation of the Arctic 's importance has evolved , the littoral states have tended either to exclude non-Arctic states from activities in the area , or to offer them less-favoured treatment .
23 The loss of the conserved Arg525 in patient A could prevent substrate recognition because this residue is thought to be important in the substrate-specific domain .
24 THE RESULT of the Spanish Grand Prix will not be nullified , even if an appeal by Nigel Mansell on his exclusion from it is successful , the president of FISA , the sport 's ruling body , said yesterday .
25 Mr John Prescott , Labour 's transport spokesman , condemned government transport policies , saying signalling staff cuts were a direct result of the 51 per cent cut in BR finances in the past five years .
26 As a result of the 1950s ' return to :
27 Any cross-sectional study of the nursing home/residential home population will over-represent to chronic long-term care population .
28 Earlier versions of both Sankoff and Thibault 's study of the French avoir/être variable and Weiner and Labov 's study of the English agentless passive variable are discussed in some detail by Lavandera to demonstrate the nature of the difficulties , which in fact have not yet been satisfactorily resolved .
29 In essence , this book is a detailed , synthetic study of the fourteenth-century Sala dei Nove in Siena , the fifteenth-century Camera Picta in Mantua and the mid sixteenth-century Sala Grande in the Palazzo Vecchio of Florence .
30 Neutralisation still had conservative connotations ; it would encourage the stabilisation of the political status quo in the country or region concerned and impose restraints on the unilateral pursuit of Soviet interests at a time when national liberation movements were achieving success with Soviet assistance .
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