Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you in any sort of A R P unit or anything like that during the war years ? |
| 2 | There are three gas furnaces , one each for the steam hammers , drop stamps , and rolling mill . |
| 3 | You should have told them that about the poppy seeds . |
| 4 | Several of these are the homes of major defence contractors ( such as Boeing in Washington ) , and should be among the major beneficiaries of the defence appropriation process ; some of the links are less obvious , such as that between the alfalfa producers of inland Texas and the production of military uniforms . |
| 5 | The most important division between industries is that between the oil companies and the rest . |
| 6 | they did that for the school children |
| 7 | He concludes , therefore , that for the twin reasons of the capitalist 's desire to force high output from individual labourers and to prevent labourers from setting up in competition , a pattern of work organisation emerged in the early cotton industry that was characterised by intensive working in factories , with individuals performing fragmented tasks . |
| 8 | Users of league tables should compare their own setting with that for the source studies included . |
| 9 | I too could give you a very good speech on traffic island but I 'll save that for the Transportation Highways and Engineering Sub- Committee . |
| 10 | Ball retention was poor and they will have to improve on this for the league games . |
| 11 | Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing . |
| 12 | Under a 1937 agreement , PAA was allowed to operate two flights a week to the UK : it continued to do this during the war years , unmatched by BOAC . |
| 13 | One kind , Bathygobius , has the habit of leaping from one pool to another as the tide retreats . |
| 14 | and from 1918 they had a parliamentary majority of their own , with three times as many seats as the rest of the coalition , but they never held as many as half of the government posts . |
| 15 | However , there are two significant additional factors : on the one hand the parents use sign language and therefore growth in the infants from gesture into sign ( rather than into speech ) is predicted , but on the other hand just over half of the sample infants are hearing and are acquiring both sign language and spoken English during this phase . |
| 16 | The works supplies about half of the water demands of the Teesdale , Teesside and Darlington areas the rest comes from the Lartington Treatment Works , west of Barnard Castle . |
| 17 | And I used to pay half of the gas bills , half of the electric bill . |
| 18 | 3 Place the nuts , raisins , allspice and half of the sesame seeds in a food processor , whizz until blended and transfer to a bowl . |
| 19 | These showed that half of the manufacturing companies increased their R&D spending in 1992 — and that almost as many intended to continue this trend in 1993 . |
| 20 | Fourteen percussionists here had a stage of their own , stretching around half of the choir seats , and the average decibel count from the brass was well up in proportion . |
| 21 | For the quinquennium 1982–83 to 1986–87 , i.e. after the major phases of absorption of other large courses , it has remained just below half of the FTE students in the Polytechnic . |
| 22 | At the massive party afterwards the Seventies were celebrated in a most appropriate way : Gloria Gaynor , Thelma Houston and one half of the Weather Girls were on hand to perform the songs that defined the liberal optimism of the period . |
| 23 | When the donor makes a chargeable transfer ( eg on a gift to a discretionary trust ) he is chargeable to inheritance tax on the amount of the reduction in his estate consequent on the making of the gift of half of the tax rates contained in Sched 1 to the 1984 Act ( IHTA 1984 , s7(2) ) . |
| 24 | ( 3 ) From the day of the accession until Dec. 31 , 1993 , the federation and the Trust Agency shall each repay half of the interest payments made by the Special Fund … |
| 25 | An effort to restore half of the production funds failed in the full Senate . |
| 26 | Social interviews , sometimes known as ‘ trial by sherry ’ , are theoretically relaxed occasions , like a drinks party or dinner , but the atmosphere tends to become rather strained as one half of the party sizes up and assesses the other half . |
| 27 | Half of the pension trustees will be employees , with an independent chairman , and pensioners will be represented . |
| 28 | Carbon dioxide accounts for half of the greenhouse gases and , in global terms , 75 per cent of emissions comes from the burning of fossil fuels for energy . |
| 29 | About half of the travelling families were found to be living on official local authority sites with only 28 per cent living on derelict land . |
| 30 | Having taken control of Volvo 's 29 per cent Pharmacia stake , which carries nearly half of the voting rights in Sweden 's biggest drugs company , Procordia is expected to launch a full takeover bid of at least £1billion . |