Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short while after his flight , Dr Kalley put in a claim for compensation for £1,574 , through the British Government , for the damage the crowd had caused to his house . |
| 2 | Budgets will be devolved to team managers but for the present the department lacks the confidence . |
| 3 | For the present the reader can take superscripts and subscripts to be equivalent . |
| 4 | If they are then housed for the winter the immunity acquired by the end of the grazing season has waned by the following spring and yearlings turned out at that time are partially susceptible to reinfection and so contaminate the pasture with small numbers of eggs . |
| 5 | For the BBC the deal means additional revenue from subscription and advertising , and represents a dramatic reevaluation of strategy . |
| 6 | Erm for the females the variance in reproductive success is of the , the differences in the female condition such as the ability to invest in offspring , erm or food producing , but among the males the variation in reproductive success are a function of male competition and female shortage . |
| 7 | On marketing , while branch managers said they believed interest rates were the biggest attraction to new customers , for the customers the key was close proximity to a branch . |
| 8 | The intervention also won for the powers the right to station soldiers in Beijing 's legation quarter to protect their nationals . |
| 9 | But where privacy in the little closets of the eighteenth-century house is the individual 's privilege , for the Victorians the emphasis falls much more upon exclusion . |
| 10 | The spokeswoman for the diocese the Bishop of Durham 's first press officer is definitely not a distant relation . |
| 11 | He had to borrow to pay his troops , and he even had to require the Earls of Derby , Northampton and Warwick to submit to imprisonment in Malines as sureties for the debts the king owed there . |
| 12 | This requirement has now been dispensed with and in order to qualify for the discount the alarm must be in accordance with the IS199 specification only . |
| 13 | ‘ I know , ’ I said again , and I was too , but not for the reasons the proctologist believed . |
| 14 | For the Westernizers the process was set in train by the young Boris Chicherin , who completed " The Eastern Question from the Russian Point of View " in the month of Nicholas 's death . |
| 15 | He had come before luncheon , eaten everything put before him with great dedication , looked about him hopefully for the cigar the household did not possess , and then explained abruptly without any preliminaries to Alexandra that she was her aunt 's sole heir . |
| 16 | For the State the system was unsatisfactory because so little revenue found its way to Moscow , yet fixed salaries were beyond the government 's means . |
| 17 | The Civic Theatre has three series of subscription ticket offers , the second being for the plays The Heiress , with Frank Finlay heading a strong cast , from June 1–6 , and Shakers from June 8–13 , and the production of My Cousin Rachel on June 22–27 , starring Anita Harris , Edward ( Leo Howard ) Highmore and Fleur Bennett . |
| 18 | We we we 've still got the parts for the concerto the guitar concerto , yeah ? |
| 19 | Oh no no no , there was no such , there was there was distemper as it was called , er not like emulsion is today , there was this distemper that was called but er oh no that was that was for the pigsty the distemper was , whitewash . |
| 20 | Only a small staff of permanent employees lived in the cortijo ; for the harvest the bailiff hired day labourers from the emigrant provinces and the local towns . |
| 21 | For the majority the work experience includes alienation from the product of one 's own labour ; controls backed by ideology or coercion as management assert their ‘ right ’ to control ; market or contractual relations with the organization , rather than integration into it ; and occupational or professional solidarities and consciousness rather than working-class solidarity . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , as this chapter shows , for the majority the impact of ageism is all too clear . |
| 23 | Similarly the FDP campaign was dominated by Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the longstanding Foreign Minister who had also played a leading role in the unification process , and FDP posters urged the electorate to " Vote for the Germany the world trusts ! " . |
| 24 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 25 | As for the stigma the child might face , does n't everyone have to live with some kind of stigma at one time or another ? |
| 26 | In his search to act as arbiter and to secure for the papacy the defensor so needed in his ecclesiastical-political programme for Europe he had ( as it seemed ) changed sides three times , much as the princes themselves . |
| 27 | In the 870s , his successors Hadrian II and John VIII exploited an impending imperial vacancy ( Louis II of Italy lacked a male heir ) to claim for the papacy the right to choose emperors . |
| 28 | In Kenya , though there was relatively little pressure for further alienation of Masai land after the second Masai move , what pressure there was was resisted by the administration , and R.W. Hemsted tried repeatedly to retrieve for the Masai the land alienated to Powys Cobb , which contained streams of crucial importance to Masai stock . |
| 29 | For the Government the scale , not of the commitment but of the arrears , was unacceptably large , and in 1990 Michael Spicer , Housing Minister , asked the Council of Mortgage Lenders ‘ to develop a code of practice for dealing with people borrowing money and getting into trouble . ’ |
| 30 | For the while the war went on . |