Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is I would suggest similarly evident that P P G seven expects most new development in rural areas to be directed to rural villages and small country towns and that it should be sensitively related to existing settlement patterns under the historic wildlife and landscape resources of the area . |
| 2 | The Airborne Self-Protection Jammer was described by the world 's top electronics experts in the 1988-89 edition of Jane 's Avionics as possibly the ‘ most significant US electronic warfare system in the current decade . ’ |
| 3 | The European Space Agency and the Canadian Government are both planning to launch radar satellites in the early to mid-1990s . |
| 4 | The difference in motility indices for the total period and the postprandial period did not reach statistical significance . |
| 5 | Another function of the Solution , is the ability to display dive profiles for the previous eight hours diving and for dive simulation . |
| 6 | Thirty nine men ( 58.2% ) and 23 women ( 48.9% ) with colorectal carcinoma had total cholesterol values below the 5th centile of the normal reference range . |
| 7 | At the same time it was necessary to speculate as to how transient changes in neurotransmitters such as serotonin , or the flow of calcium ions across the synaptic membrane , might in turn trigger the specific synthesis of the new proteins that long-term memory demanded . |
| 8 | Once MAS have identified a potentially interested party , it would , with your approval , reveal your identity and arrange an initial meeting between senior members of your own organisation and the majority shareholders of the possible target . |
| 9 | The majority shareholders at the same time expressed strong criticism of the Bank of England and other regulators over their handling of the affair . |
| 10 | A settlement was initialled on Feb. 20 by the majority shareholders in the failed Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI — see pp. 38355 ; 38545 ; 38737 ) and by the bank 's liquidators . |
| 11 | The result is that the shareholders in the target company become the majority shareholders in the acquiring company . |
| 12 | Thank you for the sending copies of the above planning applications . |
| 13 | Outside , a sizeable iron drive-wheel projects through the front wall . |
| 14 | They were also given the job of erecting direction signs to the nearest lavatory in corridors and at the exits to lecture rooms . |
| 15 | User reactions to the tape-slide medium were very positive . |
| 16 | The advertising vice-president who stays late every night working on next week 's layouts but who also has to begin making contingency plans for the expected launch of two new local advertising media campaigns three years hence has a responsibility time span of three years . |
| 17 | [ Furthermore ] no Englishman competent to judge doubts that our literature ranks among the two or three greatest in the world ; or that it is quite arguable that , if not perhaps the finest , it is the richest of all . |
| 18 | ‘ According to Vice-Admiral Hawkins , there may be a couple of conventional atom bombs aboard the sunken plane . |
| 19 | Variety artists from the declining vaudeville theatres found new careers , and cinemas interrupted their programmes to relay the " Amos'n Andy " comic show rather than those their audiences ! |
| 20 | Colour the remaining royal icing brown and pipe with a medium writing nozzle attachment ropes between the large basket and the balloon . |
| 21 | They studied the interactions of electron-antineutrinos produced in the fission reactions in the nuclear power reactor at Savannah River in South Carolina . |
| 22 | ( ii ) The applicant will need to have the following experience : ( a ) Personally run at least 36 medical negligence cases over the previous 3 years ; and ( b ) had at least three cases set down and ready for trial in the three years prior to panel application . |
| 23 | Automatic directions , as stated above , do not apply to admiralty actions or medical negligence cases in the High Court in which a summons for directions must be taken out . |
| 24 | Commissioned by the Department of Energy ( before it was merged with the Department of Trade and Industry ) , the report , entitled " The Social Cost of Fuel Cycles " , draws on existing information to calculate money values for the non-market costs of fuels . |
| 25 | The islands achieved departmental status in 1946 , each sending deputies to the French National Assembly ( elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term ) and representatives to the Senate . |
| 26 | MacRae dismissed his case notes for the third stage as ‘ rubbish ’ . |
| 27 | And , is will be suggested in the next chapter , most Conservative politicians were quite happy to see communist and anarchist groups within the Spanish Republican groups beaten by the fascists and their own internal squabbles . |
| 28 | The main reason for falling prices continued to be Brazil 's refusal to revive the price support operations of the International Coffee Agreement ( ICA ) [ see pp. 36836 ; 37335 ; 37895 ] . |
| 29 | The support operations in the gilt-edged market were proving to be an awkward commitment for the authorities . |
| 30 | Despite increased teaching loads over the past three years , the School , as a whole , has very substantially increased its research funding and its research output , over the 3–4 year period of assessment . |