Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The children with whom I worked had the least opportunity in terms of personal development and careers , and they were likely to be drawn into a variety of different forms of behaviour , among which the first was often the use of and then addiction to tobacco . |
2 | It is at that stage in the design process that he has the greatest opportunity to explore , and the least number of constraints . |
3 | However , it does have the least number of extras supplied with it , so it is basic in that sense . |
4 | Each use of symbols and phrases that he quotes has been debated with ‘ real teachers ’ who have advised us on the choice that will cause the least confusion with pupils . |
5 | I never had the least interest in games . |
6 | The once-and-for-all improvement in women 's relative pay associated with the enactment of equal pay legislation seems to have affected the female labour force indirectly by encouraging the deferment of childbearing in the mid-1970s . |
7 | Perhaps the biggest surprise was the amount of fun the Fiesta provided on the latter type of roads , thanks to a willing engine and gearbox , precise if slightly heavy steering and those narrow tyres which , nevertheless , provided exactly the right amount of grip . |
8 | ( We shall see oscillograms characteristic of the latter type in Figs. 18.11 and 18.12 . ) |
9 | Secondly , companies established in one member state and providing services in another through intermediaries may actually enjoy a legal advantage over companies doing business in the latter state through agencies , branches or subsidiaries . |
10 | The EEC states were prepared to accept the jurisdiction of the latter court in cases of human rights . |
11 | In 1983 , Mrs Victoria Gillick sought a court order to rule the latter order of priorities illegal . |
12 | Mating strategies are clarified , as predicted from and elaborated in captive studies : subadult males are more active sexually than adults , but the latter focus on peaks of female fertility . |
13 | This would reinforce their belief in the need to help the latter group of newspapers rather than simply leaving them to market forces . |
14 | The response from the latter group of managers to the business plan would no doubt have made even more compelling reading . |
15 | However , if the typical person running the latter group of stations ( those with additional facilities ) is also less risk-averse than the typical person running the former , then there is a conflict . |
16 | However , most studies focus on the latter set of typifications . |
17 | The latter class of claimants , generally bondholders , will suffer a fall in the market value of their claims . |
18 | The stronger my control , the less opportunity for individuals to explore , to express their own ideas . |
19 | By the time I arrived at B.P. there was need for many more of those whom Peter Calvocoressi calls the Indians , and the net had been cast wider to trawl the less élite from universities other than Oxford and Cambridge . |
20 | The higher they go , the less help from domestiques . |
21 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
22 | The former Secretary of Women 's Affairs of FENASTRAS , Sonia Lopez , who died in tragic circumstances in the autumn of 1983 in exile in Mexico City , was a young woman with only secondary education . |
23 | ‘ Poor Law ’ became ‘ Public Assistance ’ , and under the terms of the Act , Bedfordshire County Council set up a standing committee under that name to take over the functions of the former Board of Guardians . |
24 | The only member of the former Board of Guardians to have been appointed to the committee was William Lansberry , who had been its chairman , and he was immediately put on a sub-committee to appoint a Public Assistance Officer . |
25 | She achieved this end by establishing a temporary protectorate over the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia under P. D. Kiselev ( the former friend of Decembrists and future Minister of State Properties ) . |
26 | This hath indeed given a new face to the whole nation , hath in a great measure subverted the former state of affairs , and hath almost totally changed the manners , customs , and habits of the people , more especially of the lower sort . |
27 | This is not unlike the former position for companies and this too produced many circumstances where organizations chose not to follow professional prescription and there did not appear to be the power or the will to enforce compliance . |
28 | The introduction of student loans has given students 30 per cent more money for their living costs than the former system of grants alone . |
29 | The former Minister of Communications , Anwar Hussain Manzur , had been arrested on April 29 . |
30 | Currently in prison awaiting trial were numerous other senior officials of the Ceausescu regime , including many members of the former Council of Ministers and all but one of the 21 full members of the RCP executive political committee . |