Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This remarkable volte face did little for the president 's public reputation , was the cause of much scathing comment in the media and , not surprisingly , a poll revealed that 86 per cent of Americans , ‘ had no confidence in the ability of the President to manage the economy ’ . |
| 2 | Generally speaking , we know all too little about the teacher 's perspective on pedagogy ; we make generalizations which are not based on anything in the way of reliable information . |
| 3 | And of course we searched each for the other 's books . |
| 4 | Now , that as the picture er , leads me onto the next er , stage which is what in ministry , er what can we do in nineteen ninety three ? |
| 5 | Both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations have demonstrated that plumes can arise only at a boundary between convective regimes , such as that between the Earth 's core and mantle at a depth of 2,900 km . |
| 6 | For the third period , that after the parents ' death or incapacity , I do accept the reasonableness of employing a nursing agency and therefore on this occasion I do accept Mr figure per year of sixty five thousand five hundred and thirty seven pounds and ninety six pence . |
| 7 | Instead I consoled myself that Ellen would be pleased , and a pleased Ellen might become my shipmate all the way around the world , so really , I told myself , I was not doing this for the senator 's happiness , and not even for the twins , but for my own , and so I shook the senator 's hand . |
| 8 | Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about |
| 9 | I write this as the world 's Number One fan of the Demon Boyz , a roughneck little Tottenham posse . |
| 10 | So I I would erm you know , quite often get bags of clothes , and s we sorted them out , and give them to people with erm quite large families and erm we used to also get some for the tenants ' association for the jumble sales . |
| 11 | And they used to push this through the amount w which you had cut . |
| 12 | What a cruel account is this of the Vicar 's one and only love affair ! |
| 13 | In a country like ours where half of the territory er is still in the frontier situation , er there is an enormous difficulty in enforcing some laws . |
| 14 | The ‘ big six ’ control approximately half of the UK 's public houses , as is shown by the following table : |
| 15 | In 1992 , achieved exports of £55.7m , accounting for more than half of the UK 's total malt exports . |
| 16 | The survey found that half of the UK 's knacker businesses have gone bankrupt since they began charging last July . |
| 17 | Six branches , usually including South Shields , Cardiff and Barry , accounted for more than half of the union 's funds and year by year the phenomenon of the " non-paying " branch continued , nine out of thirty-two in the bad year 1906 , two out of twenty-nine in the good year 1899 . |
| 18 | Apart from Architecture , Housing Studies and Nursing Studies students who are trained for particular professions , over half of the faculty 's graduates go immediately into full-time employment . |
| 19 | The federal government owns about half of the California 's entire desert wilderness . |
| 20 | UK operations , which deal with just over half of the company 's clients , saw a steady 6% growth in revenues said to be underpinned by a healthy 12% improvement in exports . |
| 21 | More than half of the Shipman 's Tale consists of dialogue ( 237 lines out of 434 ) , a figure that increases if we count odd lines introducing a change of speaker or place in dialogue as part of the dialogue . |
| 22 | During the second world war , the government took control of the system , worked it to death without investing and , under a fixed ‘ rental ’ agreement of 1941 , pocketed more than half of the railways ' receipts . |
| 23 | More than half of the country 's qualified teachers have left the profession . |
| 24 | By 1966 little more than half of the country 's urban population enjoyed local air pollution control ; of almost 600 counties with a population greater than 50,000 , fewer than 90 had control programmes , and most of these programmes were far from adequate ( Krier and Ursin , 1977 ) . |
| 25 | A joint Mozambique government and World Bank report , released at a donors ' meeting in Paris on Dec. 10 , warned that half of the country 's 16,000,000 people faced starvation , largely as a result of the civil war . |
| 26 | Despite the PT 's successes , the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party ( PMDB ) continued to control more than half of the country 's municipal governments . |
| 27 | Meeting the target to recycle half of the country 's domestic waste by 2000 could cost each household an extra £50 a year , according to the report , commissioned by the government from Environmental Resources Limited ( ERL ) . |
| 28 | Around half of the firm 's original 80 partners have left since 1987 . |
| 29 | Only 300,000 cereal farms would be too large to qualify for full compensation — but they farm no less than half of the EC 's cereals fields and produce almost two-thirds of its cereals crop . |
| 30 | Spain , which had about half of the EC 's fishing fleet , was accused of taking an inequitable share of fish in Irish waters , of failing to regulate its fleets properly , and of repeated violations of EC catch quotas . |