Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it is clear that , as my hon. Friend says , Labour would cut the defence budget to ribbons . |
| 2 | The defence work of solicitors in criminal cases |
| 3 | In many plants , secondary compounds are concentrated in the trichomes and , for example , a ketone is thus concentrated in the hairs of tomato plants , but that same ketone has been found in the defence secretions of termites and caterpillars . |
| 4 | The concept of the ‘ drug career ’ has been used by a number of authors ( for example , Becker 1963 ) to systematise the response patterns of individuals who have come into contact with a given drug . |
| 5 | It 's not an ‘ instant ’ way of playing , whereas , especially with units like the Trace Elliot here , using a plectrum tightens up the response time in terms of attack . |
| 6 | The response rate on returns to date , then , is 68 per cent . |
| 7 | The final test was the response rate from mothers in requesting a wall poster . |
| 8 | The total proceeds from the income tax on wage-earners ' and small private business was £27,000 million in 1983 , while the proceeds of VAT was £14,000 million . |
| 9 | That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet . |
| 10 | The income distribution by ranges is derived by Musgrave et al. |
| 11 | However , when considering income inequality , it is the income distribution among individuals that has emerged as most useful . |
| 12 | Neil had told me that he might spend the daytime hours between tides over here on Seal Island . |
| 13 | It is also relevant that these were referrals to one mental health centre , although the lack of ASWs in district teams meant that these represented practically all the daytime referrals to ASWs . |
| 14 | In earlier Lectures we saw how taxation can change before and after-tax incomes of different factors , how the opportunity sets of individuals are affected , and how this influences the decisions they make . |
| 15 | The model adopted was a largely Keynesian one , concerned with the opportunity cost of resources used , rather than with the monetary value of spending . |
| 16 | In order for markets to be allocatively efficient , prices must correctly reflect the opportunity costs of goods . |
| 17 | As the majority holder of funds for technology transfer , the DTI 's announcements relating to the White Paper are where much of the action is . |
| 18 | If the state can relate the manifesto of the majority party to policies which emerge from negotiation between interest groups , then these policies can claim to represent both the consensus of individual electors and views of organized pressure groups . |
| 19 | This state then turned it 's attention to the majority population of Christians and Muslims . |
| 20 | While the majority view among climbers and many of those within the BMC is that the competition , organised by Jerry Peel and Mick Johnstone , was a largely social affair , the BMC will find it difficult to overlook the matter . |
| 21 | Indeed the contingency approach to organisations would argue that , depending upon the dominant activity , an organisation should consist of different sub-cultures reflecting different activities . |
| 22 | Two Westerberg tracks are featured on the soundtrack album for Singles , Cameron Crowe 's film about Seattle . |
| 23 | The numbers used to label the aperture settings on cameras therefore form a series of numbers with a ratio of 2 : 1 , 1.4 , 2 , 2.8 , 4 , 5.6 , 8 , 11 , 16 , 22 , 32 . |
| 24 | They worked in the same office , they ate their lunch together , they went down the Lane on Sundays and the Roman Road on Fridays . |
| 25 | Will he be having any talks with the Cairns group of countries , which involves major food producers such as Australia and New Zealand and is dedicated to getting rid of all subsidies , tariffs and quotas which put extra costs on food , and getting good-quality , cheap food back on the shelves — policies from which our farmers have absolutely nothing to fear ? |
| 26 | The charge made by liberal historians , that the revolutionary ideologies and programmes were the hothouse creation of intellectuals isolated from the masses they claimed to represent does not stand up to close scrutiny . |
| 27 | The Tretyakov collection of paintings was donated to the city of Moscow a century ago . |
| 28 | Another in the Scala series of highlights from great collections . |
| 29 | Just a table and a chair and a telephone that would n't be secure , and the room was two floors and the length of a ministry corridor away from the Operations Co-ordination Centre of the Counter-Terrorism section at police headquarters . |
| 30 | The sufferer is con-fronted with truth — as seen by the peer group of patients — rather than the version of it that corresponds to a false picture that only he or she perceives and finds acceptable . |