Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ OK , I wo n't try to battle my way past all that camouflage for the treasures that lie beneath . |
| 2 | Provided we give a narrow meaning to ‘ intention ’ the law may well for practical purposes come close to the proposition that it is tortious intentionally to cause damage by any unlawful act , but it has developed by way of distinct , nominate torts and it is necessary to retain that division for the purposes of exposition . |
| 3 | Individual householders , faced with the prospects of a water rate , showed as little enthusiasm for the benefits of water ( and with it sewage disposal ) in the home , so that when the Empire ended only half the city 's houses had running water . |
| 4 | FOR a country that has been run by soldiers for nearly a decade , Nigeria shows little enthusiasm for the elections due on June 12th . |
| 5 | Although doubt has been cast on that finding by the results of the national survey ( see Parker 1982 : 90 ) , McGoldrick and Cooper 's research was conducted after the national survey and it has helped to encourage a view that attitudes towards early retirement are changing significantly and that it is being regarded more and more favourably by older workers ( see for example , House of Commons Select Committee on Social Services 1982 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ We intend to reform as well as spending more money in order to get the most out of that money for the patients . |
| 7 | Here the money was paid by a third person , and I have no doubt that , upon the acceptance of that money by the plaintiffs with full knowledge of the terms on which it was offered , the debt was absolutely extinguished . |
| 8 | Normally he would have had little patience with the attitudes of the Fromes , but the morning after such a bereavement did n't seem the time to argue the social or political toss with them . |
| 9 | The Party has long been dominated by members of the Sunni Arab minority , who have shown little patience with the Kurds of the north or the Shiite Arabs of the south . |
| 10 | Such decision makers may have little experience of the issues that affect women or ethnic minorities , for example . |
| 11 | Now that we have a little experience in the joys of simple kite flying , it 's time to look deeper into the whole subject and to understand more about those ‘ Modern Materials ’ which have emerged since the 1970s . |
| 12 | What you can do is to insert the cardboard backing into the envelope like that and then you put that bit through the rings , and then it becomes a tear pad . |
| 13 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd say his heart was in the right place if I did n't doubt that , since he has so little sympathy for the victims of his young tearaways . |
| 15 | ‘ I must admit at that time I had little sympathy for the victims , having heard gruesome evidence at court , but my feelings have now changed . |
| 16 | The Elector of Hanover was known to hold little sympathy for the Tories , whom he felt had betrayed the Allies at the Peace of Utrecht , and few doubted that when George I became King the Tories would lose the political ascendancy they had enjoyed since 1710 . |
| 17 | Each part of the restaurants & Leisure Division has a programme to assist employees in developing their careers . |
| 18 | Each part of the walls and the rest of the ceilings received their appointed section of the Christian story . |
| 19 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 20 | Now it 's not fair on those others that are in the other room doing their exams there , and they 're just making all that noise from the typewriters in the other room . |
| 21 | They do n't all have the same erm facilities as Sussex , nor indeed the same tradition of town and gown relationships , but nevertheless within the university there are several groups of people wanting to develop ideas of literature festivals or performance arts events , which we try and encourage because erm we have very little money within the Arts Association and have to maximise whatever facilities and people that we can lay our hands on . |
| 22 | The grandparents , whom Williams referred to as ‘ mum ’ and ‘ the old man ’ , were , according to him , uneducated and barely literate ; they had little comprehension of the values , demands and functions of education and , as a consequence , were unable to make any contribution to the child 's involvement at school . |
| 23 | Maus 's cartoon cross-cutting underlines , perhaps more vividly than any other medium could do , the truth of Vladek 's saying , when asked why the Jews offered so little resistance to the Germans : ‘ They could n't believe even what 's in front of their eyes … ‘ |
| 24 | ‘ Goodness of fit ’ is measured by matching the spectral characteristics of each segment to the templates in the graph , and at each point marking the template with the highest acoustic match probability . |
| 25 | As the two treatment groups were not identical in severity of disease at the start of the trial , an analysis of covariance , with corresponding confidence intervals , was used to compare each measure between the groups after treatment , making adjustments for the differences in severity of disease before treatment as measured by the corresponding baseline measurement . |
| 26 | It also focussed attention at each level on the measures of performance required for effective monitoring and control , and the information dependencies of all subsystems . |
| 27 | So you need to anticipate and absorb each wave with the legs ( which act as shock absorbers ) . |
| 28 | Professional standards have traditionally played little part in the accounts of central government . |
| 29 | In the 1656–8 Parliament , as a member for Surrey , he was active in committees but took little part in the debates . |
| 30 | In the event my evidence — on the scientific value of clinical ecology — played little part in the proceedings because the charges brought by the GMC touched only peripherally on Dr Mumby 's clinical activities . |