Example sentences of "to the [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds , in particular albatrosses , are attracted to the baited hooks which are used for long-line fishing , and become caught in the nets and killed ; , Further restrictions are to be imposed on the establishment up of new fisheries in the area . |
| 2 | Both were provoking a spectacular confusion of signs — ‘ quality ’ , the ‘ finer things in life ’ restored to the avant-garde hipsters who , like ABC , ‘ know what trash is ’ . |
| 3 | His conclusion , probably acceptable to most parliamentarians , is that Ukraine should ratify START 1 now , but should hold on to the 46 missiles which that treaty does not cover ( though the Lisbon protocol does ) , and delay accession to the NPT . |
| 4 | Sir John Pennycuick went on to refer to the far-reaching limitations which govern the exercise of the jurisdiction . |
| 5 | I often use this route as an approach to Shining Clough Rocks by contouring eastwards from the top of the ravine across open moorland , eventually traversing around the headwall of Shining Clough to the impressive crags themselves . |
| 6 | ‘ Beyond that the company is introducing , and indeed educating people to the better standards it is creating , not only in the UK , but world-wide . |
| 7 | In the Gold Coast the last sentiment was potentially practical politics , for mass politicisation had begun among two important sections of the people of the coast , the cocoa farmers and the ex-servicemen : indeed , the cocoa farmers had first flexed their muscles in 1937 when they refused to sell to the European firms who bought 98 per cent of their crop ( fixing the market ) and also imposed a boycott on European imports . |
| 8 | This , of course , was not how it seemed to the European powers which held authority over the Middle East after the 1914–18 war . |
| 9 | However , the furore which surrounded the release of a few hundred tonnes of intervention beef in England — an amount equivalent to less than a tenth of one per cent of the mountain — suggests the idea of simply selling beef cheaply to the European consumers who paid for it would be a difficult option . |
| 10 | Most police were concentrated in the crowded districts of irregular streets , such as the harbour quarter , and special details were dispatched to the privately-run brothels which did not fall under the control of the priesthood . |
| 11 | However , if in addition to the sole accounts you operate a joint a joint current or savings account with the same bank or building society , you should check from the outset whether the terms and conditions include a right of set off , whereby funds on these accounts may be required to repay the debt on others held by you or your partner . |
| 12 | In the Romalpa case , not only was the seller entitled , as owner , to the unmixed goods which the buyer had not sold , but the seller was also entitled to the proceeds of the sale which the buyer had received from sub-sales of unmixed goods . |
| 13 | Ask Ann Jones what a contribution half this size could do to providing coaching and travelling support to her hard-pressed British girls , or even consult with Ian Barclay or Olga Morozova on the dramatic help this could give to the junior squads which , although cosseted , are far too small and elitist . |
| 14 | Alan Williams made a special steel flywheel , and this was then bolted to the standard Cummins one to give the two halves of the clutch . |
| 15 | On my regular trips back home , I am always a witness to the unspeakable hardships which the local population endures as a result of living alongside one of Europe 's most important arteries for the transport of people and goods in the North-South direction . |
| 16 | Historians can point to the philosophical views which underlay this ambition , and artists and sculptors were in various ways affected by the demonstration of its realisation in the theatre built for the composer at Bayreuth . |
| 17 | We have n't really er when it got up to the bigger businesses we used |
| 18 | but now we can acknowledge that the advance in South Africa 's cricket prospects is as much in their debt as it is to the current leaders who have united South African cricket and allowed it , for the first time in two centuries , to look forward to drawing on all the resources of the nation 's youth regardless of race , colour or creed . |
| 19 | And as for those bloody red boxes , ’ he says pointing to the battered containers which deliver official papers to Ditchingham Hall every weekend , ‘ hate 'em . ’ |
| 20 | The list of changes in modern capitalism which have been seen as fundamentally questioning the original Marxist theory are too numerous to mention in detail , so we will confine ourselves to the major changes which have fuelled debate amongst Marxists . |
| 21 | Oh , you do , you 're so bullshit , just to the real ones whatever they are . |
| 22 | In my own turfs we are quarrelling among ourselves with intense energy about whether women can be ordained priests , about who is more Catholic than their neighbour and about a whole host of internal issues , because we apparently have neither the grace nor the guts to face up to the real issues which are the business of the Church in the current world . |
| 23 | As in 1766 , the crown surrendered its chosen servant to the only forces it was to respect in the nineteenth century — the mob and the army officers . |
| 24 | So the appropriate documents we went to the Croatian Customs who stamped our papers and insisted on giving us each a bottle of orange juice . |
| 25 | If we go back to the middle ages we had the situation of craftsmanship , where one individual was responsible for the design of what they were doing , the selection of the materials regarding what they were doing . |
| 26 | ( 1 ) The new entrants to the middle classes who are the audience for postmodernist culture are members of the post-industrial middle classes . |
| 27 | Kaysen has pointed out that : ‘ [ d ] ecisions as to the technical areas which will be systematically explored by research and development divisions and decisions as to what scientific and technical novelties will be translated into new products and processes and tried out for economic viability have very deep effects . |
| 28 | These picture faults are due to the technical compromises which are built into video and television systems . |
| 29 | It must , obviously , be considered in relation to the actual matters it is concerned with , of which Greek tragedy is the most specifiable . |
| 30 | A short bus or taxi ride from the city centre takes you to the Botanical Gardens which , until 1936 , were the Quinta do Bom Successo residence of the Reid family . |