Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the BBC the deal means additional revenue from subscription and advertising , and represents a dramatic reevaluation of strategy . |
| 2 | 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 ! " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For the CNAA the question was now clear and urgent . |
| 5 | On the one hand they strengthened the polytechnics ' resistance to the institutional review element in the CNAA 's procedures , but on the other hand they confirmed for the CNAA the value of gaining intelligence about the overall health of the institutions . |
| 6 | In fact , for the UK the tax structure achieves progressivity ( a marginal tax rate greater than the average tax rate ) by having tax allowances and a wide band of income over which the marginal tax rate is a constant . |
| 7 | For the US the problem was more complicated . |
| 8 | For Western economies such as the UK the challenge in cutting emissions is even greater because emissions per head of population are much higher than in most developing countries . |
| 9 | The second was that Article 3(1) of the Directive' the transferor 's rights and obligations arising from a contract of employment or from an employment relationship existing on the date of a transfer within the meaning of Article 1(1) shall , by reason of such transfer , be transferred to the transferee' did not require an employee who was opposed to the transfer to have his contract transferred with the business . |
| 10 | As members of the RSPB the reserve was ours for free ; non-members were purchasing permits from ‘ reception ’ to gain admittance . |
| 11 | If you should die during the term of the Bond the death benefit will be the greater of the encashment value allocated to your Bond at the time of death and your original investment . |
| 12 | Without the help of the S.D.S. the project seems doomed as the Region are unwilling to help and few of the local people would consent to council funds being used for the setting up of a permanent site or the renting of a plot of land as a short-term site until a permanent site can be found away from the town . |
| 13 | SOME 70 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous and beginning of the Palaeocene the climate of the Earth underwent a profound change . |
| 14 | In certain states of the USA the possession of small quantities of marijuana is not a criminal offence , although it is in Britain . |
| 15 | In the eastern part of the USA the significance of conservation measures has been demonstrated at two different scales ( Fig. 6.1 ) . |
| 16 | The jaw : the characters are : ( a ) the shape of the jaw ; ( b ) the shape and arrangement of the apical and oral papillae ; ( c ) the shape of the adoral and oral shields ; ( d ) in species of the Ophiotominae the arrangement of the tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore and their alignment with the oral papillae. 3 . |
| 17 | That very same evening he appeared on the bandstand in Woodford Square and gave his first speech under the auspices of the P.E.M. The speech turned out to be nothing less than a vitriolic attack on the Commission , which he portrayed as an organisation run by ‘ hide- bound conservatives in the British Colonial service ’ . |
| 18 | Using TVS top quality footage , the highlights of the Whitbread the world 's longest and most gruelling of offshore races are compiled in the 130 minute long tape . |
| 19 | He crossed the frontier at Orsova , now in Romania , but , before doing so , buried on the Hungarian shore of the Danube the crown , orb and sceptre of St Stephen . |
| 20 | The author of the Thomas the Tank Engine stories has dismissed a new tv series based on his characters as ’ rubbish ’ . |
| 21 | The Rev Awdry is proud that railwaymen have written to him , praising the accuracy of the Thomas the Tank engine books . |
| 22 | As a result of the requirements of the FRED the issue costs are effectively charged against profits over the term of the instrument . |
| 23 | At work everyone was talking about the television dramatization of the Jack the Ripper story . |
| 24 | With the support of the ESRC the investigator has completed a statistical base for the study OI Soviet economic assistance to the less developed countries ( LDCs ) , analysing the method used , giving some historical background and giving some details of all the aid agreements reached and the progress made on their implementation . |
| 25 | The most mouthwatering specimens tend to be found in limestones — famous sites are in the Silurian rocks of England and Mississipian rocks of the U.S.A. The group as a whole had a major crisis in the Permian , during which most of the Palaeozoic forms died out . |
| 26 | But on the other side of the Atlantic the company 's Shaws operation was hit by the depressed New England economy recession . |
| 27 | Well , it 's alarmingly early days , but Rollerskate Skinny have the potential and the passion to roll out the contrived barrel and give this side of the Atlantic the kind of kick up the arse it so desperately needs . |
| 28 | On the other side of the Atlantic the consul in New Orleans even attempted in 1907 , with some success , to secure government finance for the teaching of French in Louisiana . |
| 29 | ‘ At the moment I see a good future with the C.P.S. The career structure has recently been improved . |
| 30 | Is not the problem with the TGWU the fact that the only objective that it regards as important in the House is to support the Labour party ? |