Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This consisted of a graphic workspace and primitive GIS operations shown as icons which the user selected from a palette and assembled in the workspace . |
| 2 | To repeat : the discussion is about investments which the group sees to be significant . |
| 3 | Call-slips for books which the Library was unable to supply were also collected and information transferred from them to data sheets . |
| 4 | You will probably be amazed by the range of yarns which the garter carriage can use — smooth and slightly textured acrylics of any thickness , wool , most cottons ( although not those with a very strong twist ) and even some suitable fancy yarns , for example chenille . |
| 5 | In February 1962 , Eddie McAteer asked Minister of Health and Local Government W. J. Morgan for the numbers of houses which the corporation and the NIHT expected to finish in Derry that year . |
| 6 | But this ‘ set ’ is the product not of equivalences , nor of violation of an external norm , but of the violation of norms which the text itself creates . |
| 7 | Now six months behind in getting version one out the door , SAG has just pulled together the first snapshot of technologies which the specification will use . |
| 8 | ‘ Certified normal accommodation ’ ( CNA ) , the official figures for the number of prisoners which the system can officially cater for without overcrowding , allowed for 45,268 prisoners . |
| 9 | The total number of hours in the two orders was 270 , which exceeded the maximum aggregate number of hours which the court would order on the same occasion by virtue of Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 , S. 14(3) in its original form . |
| 10 | I was trying to calculate the exact number of hours which the motion allows the Committee to spend debating the Bill . |
| 11 | We have to conclude , I think , that there is a very wide range of meanings which the progressive can be associated with but that these are determined by the particular choice of lexis and are not independently a property of the grammatical category of aspect . |
| 12 | The first four volumes , published between 1974 and 1985 , dealt with Monet 's long career chronologically and listed and illustrated nearly 2000 paintings , culminating in the series of canvases which the artist prepared for installation in the Orangerie . |
| 13 | Courses leading to masters ' degrees are normally designed to fulfil one of the following objectives : to follow directly from the study undertaken at first degree level ; to enable graduates of one discipline to acquire knowledge of another related discipline or subject area ; to develop and apply the student 's first degree knowledge in a related specialized area ; or to relate and synthesize a number of disciplines which the student may not have studied at first degree level . |
| 14 | Between these two states of relationships which the individual can experience in his lifetime there are transitional forms of relationships that are the content of everyday living . |
| 15 | The alternative , however , involves the writing back into section 1(1) of words which the legislature , no doubt deliberately , omitted , and the re-introduction into the criminal law of the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences . |
| 16 | Within each of these varieties , there is a range of styles which the speaker can draw on in conversation or for other types of talk . |
| 17 | The number of covers which the Cellar can accommodate |
| 18 | Recurrent problems may be symptomatic of crises which the nurse can not or does not wish to share with her manager . |
| 19 | Indeed , senior management commitment is essential so that companies can devise strategies which will make the most of opportunities which the EMC Directive presents . |
| 20 | Histoire , whilst at one level a transposition of the discontinuity of experience , can at the same time be considered as providing an implicit commentary on the nature of fiction and writing : the text can be said to be formed from a meditation on a collection of postcards which the narrator is sifting through . |
| 21 | These may or may not lie outside the range of transactions which the teacher may ordinarily use , but in order to exploit the system to the full for the purpose for which it was designed , it is necessary that the teacher using the system behaves in a way which is consistent with its purpose . |
| 22 | When the amount of pausing drops below what it would naturally be for a given speaker in a particular situation , the number of errors which the speaker makes increases . |
| 23 | The syndrome of " deep dyslexia " ( see Coltheart , Patterson and Marshall , 1980 ) is characterised by certain kinds of errors which the patient makes when unable to read aloud particular words . |
| 24 | Furthermore , within the range of duties which the State owes its citizens , failure to help is hindrance . |
| 25 | This goal had important consequences for the role given , not only to critical or scholarly commentaries and other incrustations upon the essential text , but also to the teacher : " In dealing with literature in any full sense , to efface oneself , to stand away , between the child and literature , is the highest and not the easiest of duties which the teacher can undertake " . |
| 26 | After reasserting that the question of lateness was a question of fact for the tribunal , May LJ gives a lists of circumstances which the IT may wish to consider |
| 27 | It is a paradox that can only damage the Community 's own long-term interests , and those of countries which the Community currently professes to wish to help , notably Eastern Europe and the old USSR . |
| 28 | All this means is that they have built-in microprocessors which convert the characters and instructions sent from the computer into a series of co-ordinates which the plotter then draws . |
| 29 | Why then did Anselm not make his support of Henry conditional on concessions for the liberty of the Church comparable to the charter of liberties which the baronage had obtained ? |
| 30 | Using Nirex 's own figures , the report concludes that groundwater contaminated by the radioactive waste could reach the surface within 300 years , not the tens of thousands of years which the company has claimed . |