Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Britain 's forthcoming presidency of the European Commission might be used as an opportunity for the more dirigiste members of Mr Major 's staff to press for a move to the narrow band of the ERM , in which case interest rates must be locked into those of Germany . |
| 2 | They compared the average mispricing in the near contract during the stock exchange account which included the delivery date , with that in the next near contract for the same period , and with that for the near contract in previous stock exchange accounts . |
| 3 | This is associated with a reduction of freedom for the former group and increasing personal access to motorised transport for the latter . |
| 4 | Jean Goodwin presented a £300 cheque to Dr. Bathall for Cardiac Support Group , and Heather Trimming presented a cheque for the same amount to Mrs. Todd for the Alton branch of Sight Concern Hampshire . |
| 5 | If you already pay your employee any money while she receives SMP , for example , occupational maternity pay , this will count towards your SMP payment for the same week . |
| 6 | Planting in 1988 came within 15 per cent of the national target , but has fallen now to one-third of that level for the same cost to the taxpayer as in 1988 . |
| 7 | In northern Europe , however , factors such as population growth , urbanisation and industrialisation during the latter half of the nineteenth century produced a gradual change of heart , although the initial move towards the idea of protecting natural wilderness was encouraged primarily by European sportsmen who became concerned by the diminishing herds of game animals in the colonies ( MacKenzie , 1989 ) . |
| 8 | I now suggest that the new Government should immediately sell the building for the same price so that it can become a seat of learning for talented Scottish children , such as it then produced of every walk of life . |
| 9 | He wrote a Prologue and ‘ The Song of the Wreck ’ for Wilkie Collins 's The Lighthouse , 1855 , and a Prologue for the same author 's The Frozen Deep , 1856 . |
| 10 | He was returned in November for Rye instead , and was also elected to the 1679 Parliament for the same seat . |
| 11 | There was considerable support for the latter suggestion from private practitioners in all types of firm and from local law societies . |
| 12 | Hebrew letters might , therefore , have undergone differentiation for the former group and would certainly have become involved in some associations . |
| 13 | The Commission has been in existence for the same length of time as the Fair Employment Agency , since 1976 . |
| 14 | Asquith replied that the question of mandates was not so simple , but he was opposed to an election for the same reason as Unionists wanted one : — both knew that Home Rule was not a winning policy outside Ireland . |
| 15 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 16 | The electric side of the equation suggests that performance or recording is a prime consideration , because otherwise a straightforward acoustic for the same money would be an obvious better buy . |
| 17 | On July 27 , the prosecution had demanded a 10-year sentence for the former leader , aged 80 , in connection with the embezzlement charge [ see also p. 39014 ] . |
| 18 | However some employers must have moved more quickly , since the Scotsman for the same day carried the following report : The masters say they have engaged workmen from England who have proved equal to the occasion , while for the past few weeks an experiment was made with educated females at the case . |
| 19 | But what Brown had overlooked was the First Rule of the Conventional Car Maker : sell as many of the same cars as you can in order to make the most money for the least expenditure . |
| 20 | Keep increasing the resistance for the same voltage , what happens to the current ? |
| 21 | For example , the last segment in French piques and Paques differ in form but function as the same phoneme in the language . |
| 22 | And the poor owd boy put his hat back on sheepish like and watched the fly zooming about the smithy , giving us a look as the same time . |
| 23 | Very small farms in the east of England also suffered from low income during the same period . |
| 24 | Premium income during the half year was up nearly 50% reflecting GA 's involvement in a number of new major accounts . |
| 25 | Unless this provision is satisfied , any yearly interest paid by a company must be paid subject to deduction of basic rate income tax , and Target will need to comply with paras 2 to 4 of Sch 16 to the Taxes Act 1988 and account to the Revenue for the tax it is liable to withhold ; the lender will suffer the cash-flow disadvantage of receiving interest payments with tax withheld at source ( although it would be entitled to offset the withholding tax suffered against its corporation tax liability for the same accounting period under s7(2) TA 1988 ) . |
| 26 | The same gallery had a pastel study of a hand by Degas for the painting ‘ Mademoiselle Fiocre ’ while Galerie Heim next door had a foot for the same work . |
| 27 | The journey by train from Cambridge to Lincoln was tedious , involving several changes , and on arrival I was met by the usual RAF truck for the half hour 's run into Binbrook village and from there up the steep hill to the RAF Station on its plateau above the low lying plains . |
| 28 | LAWYERS for Mike Tyson demanded a new trial for the former heavyweight champion yesterday , arguing that the jury which convicted him of rape was not allowed to consider whether his accuser had confused him as to whether she was a willing sex partner . |
| 29 | A VILLAGE post office was raided early yesterday — hours after police ambushed an armed gang after the same target . |
| 30 | Organisers of Wirral 's Initiative for Needy Children ( Winch ) are also lining up a celebrity spot-kick contest for the same day at Prenton Park . |