Example sentences of "[det] the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was when the friend of the family , Donald Templeton , the trusted and valued doctor who attended both Farr and his wife , came to call that the plans of the man who came to be known as the Wimbledon poisoner came badly unstuck . |
| 2 | The worldwide acceptance of the need for supranational controls on the environment — given that the holes in the ozone layer , the greenhouse effect and tropical deforestation affect the whole planet rather than individual countries — has lent new respect and strength to the United Nations . |
| 3 | Although one should not read too much into this , given that the families in the survey had at least one child in primary ( board ) school by definition , and therefore the oldest were sometimes the only ones of an age to be working , it can safely be said that the openings for girls in the printing trade must have been a godsend for low-income families with several children . |
| 4 | In due course the original will be registered , and after that the entries on the Register will replace it . |
| 5 | is that the names of the different curing stations . |
| 6 | The the other factor is that that the negotiations with the bank erm to pay two pound fifty per quarter erm should have been erm reviewed last December . |
| 7 | Erm and I suppose you could regard the Thirty Years War too er as being a , a total war in this sense in , in that the objectives of the war is the crushing of opposition , unconditional surrender . |
| 8 | Simonsen continued , ‘ Given that the impressions from the chemical substances are not obtained from the sensory organs , they do not have a pattern that is correlated with the environment in a logical way . |
| 9 | A licensing board may disapply the section to premises at any time if they cease to be satisfied that the requirements of the proviso to subs . |
| 10 | Chemistry was regarded as a subject which was not fundamental ; the issues it examines are not fundamental to the universe in the way that the issues of physics are ; in this the views of the students can be seen to coincide with the views of Dr L , who said that ‘ all of chemistry is becoming explicable in terms of quantum theory ’ . |
| 11 | On top of this the economies of the most popular European destinations — France , Italy , Portugal and Spain — have also become depressed . |
| 12 | And at least half the cases in the black community may go unreported , warns Padayachee . |
| 13 | For protection against bad debts , less than half the firms in the survey operated the sales ledger on secured terms and nearly two-thirds did not use credit insurance . |
| 14 | Economic bewilderment in the United States , uninspired government in Britain , unemployment , gloom , insuperable problems everywhere , unspeakable things happening to men and women inside half the countries in the world . |
| 15 | In about half the countries in the world governments had imprisoned people for their beliefs , while more than 100 governments had resorted to torture or the maltreatment of prisoners ; thousands of people had " disappeared " or were extra-judicially executed in 29 countries , most notably in Sri Lanka , Brazil , El Salvador , Guatemala and Peru . |
| 16 | Half the teachers in the school think say me a half-breed so they do n't too bother me . |
| 17 | The disadvantage is that , on average , half the records on the track need to be shunted up ( in this example records 113 , 1 14 and 116 have been moved ) , and the overflow area will also require updating . |
| 18 | About half the tables in the hotel dining-room were occupied but Wycliffe , with Kersey and Lucy Lane , was placed in one of the window embrasures which gave them all the privacy they could have wished . |
| 19 | About half the faults of the eventual 955 types collated were in the outer structure . |
| 20 | Groupe St. Louis was the largest shareholder in Arjomari , with a shareholding of 45% and the right to appoint up to half the members of the Supervisory Board or the bodies legally representing the undertaking . |
| 21 | THE Oval Office may be occupied by a self-confessed non-inhaler ; half the members of the cabinet may have marched against the Vietnam war ; and the first and second ladies may spend their spare time grooving to the Grateful Dead . |
| 22 | How do you bring a group of people together to work on an equal basis when half the members of the group are experienced non-disabled professionals who are used to taking control ? |
| 23 | ( Although half the members of the upper house were due for re-election in mid-1992 , elections in the lower house were not due for another two years . ) |
| 24 | However , Tsar Nicholas II still retained formidable powers — ; an absolute veto on all legislation , full control of foreign affairs , he had emergency powers under Article 87 , and appointed half the members of the state council , which could veto the Duma . |
| 25 | This question is best answered by the remarks of the hon. Member for Islington , North , who courageously and clearly articulated the views of , I suspect , more than half the Members on the Opposition Benches . |
| 26 | Seemed to be on kissing terms with half the chaps in the cricket ground , when we got there . |
| 27 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 28 | Half the personnel of the village had changed , but in terms of household structure Laxton was a stable community . |
| 29 | The other day , a survey showed that more than half the adults in the country felt that they would n't be content to live with a terminal illness which made them dependent on others . |
| 30 | At present , half the abortions in the UK are performed in the first 12 weeks ; delays in getting from GP to clinics or consultants mean some women are n't seen until after the nine-week stage has passed . |