Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Netherlands Antilles the Governor ( currently Jaime Saleh ) , who represents and is appointed by the Crown , has executive power in external affairs . |
| 2 | Have you discuss with the David Stewart the business of compilation of programmes ? |
| 3 | She has seen the improvement in Andrew when he went to the Exeter School.If the council does n't agree to send her other two sons there she 'll take them out of school . |
| 4 | This sea-floor spreading , as the phenomenon is known , is happening at an impressive rate : near the Galapagos Islands the sea-floor is expanding at eight inches a year ; down by Easter Island , by nine inches . |
| 5 | There seem to be strong parallels between energy in the body and energy in the landscape and , in the early 1970s , John Wheaton put forward in The Ley Hunter the idea of ‘ Earth Acupuncture ’ subsequently taken up and developed by Tom Graves . |
| 6 | In the United Kingdom the Faculty of Public Health Medicine is charged with the responsibility of maintaining and developing postgraduate training and education in the specialty . |
| 7 | In the United Kingdom the attitude to testing has been more ambivalent , although examinations and tests have played an important part in British education for well over a century . |
| 8 | In the United Kingdom the doctrine of legislative supremacy dictates that Parliament has power to legislate on constitutional matters . |
| 9 | In the United Kingdom the legislature has effectively long since surrendered the power of the purse to the executive , but that is far from being the case in the United States . |
| 10 | In the House on 20 November , I said that there must be a provision giving the United Kingdom the right to decide for ourselves whether or not to move to stage 3 . |
| 11 | If there is no qualifying interest in possession s48(4) ( b ) states that if it can be shown that all known persons for whose benefit the settled property or income from it has been or might be applied or who are or might become beneficially entitled to an interest in possession are persons neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom the gilt relief will be applicable . |
| 12 | By executing and keeping such documents outside the United Kingdom the purchaser can significantly reduce the stamp duty it must pay . |
| 13 | It is also quite clear that if , prior to the ten year charge , the asset had been located in the United Kingdom the fact that it is taken outside the United Kingdom so that trust becomes an excluded property trust does not cause a tax charge in itself . |
| 14 | Identified by Hobsbawm as The Age of Capital , in the history of Co-operation in the United Kingdom the period 1848 to 1875 is marked by the emergence of the Consumers ' Movement as a major feature of retail trade , the exposure of the antithesis between it and Producers ' Co-operation and , as a result , the virtual abandonment of the latter as an expression of democracy . |
| 15 | Under the system of death registration functioning in the United Kingdom the cause of death must be described on the death certificate . |
| 16 | on the date of import into the United Kingdom the car which was the subject of the total loss settlement would have been exempt from value added tax and car tax |
| 17 | Thomas Mayer and his son , Thomas Walton Mayer of Newcastle-under-Lyme , sent to every veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom the draft of a memorial addressed to the governors of the London College , with the ultimate objective of gaining a Charter of Incorporation ‘ to protect us from illiterate and uneducated men , and to afford us the same privileges and exemptions which other professional bodies possess ’ . |
| 18 | WAR CRIMES : in the United Kingdom the War Crimes Act , allowing for the prosecution of alleged Nazi war criminals , received the Royal Assent on May 9 , despite having been defeated twice in the House of Lords . |
| 19 | The even more rapid decline in the two-party vote in Britain is to some extent compensated for by the increased vote for the smaller parties since the 1970s , but in the United States the proportion of the electorate mobilized by the parties is almost certainly even smaller because of the growing number of single-issue pressure groups in recent years . |
| 20 | No longer is the United States the single dominating power . |
| 21 | In the United States the State of California 's Air Resources Board announced new regulations for petrol on Nov. 24 , requiring a 30 per cent cut in emissions of air pollutants by March 1996 . |
| 22 | For example , in the United States the Century Council targets drunken driving and underage drinking . |
| 23 | In Britain , the sovereignty of Parliament was conceived in opposition to royal absolutism ; in the United States the separation of powers limits the government 's powers and the constitution is sovereign . |
| 24 | The volume had been published in the United States the year before , and the American critics had been more divided in their response . |
| 25 | Today Canada took the silver , and the United States the bronze medal . |
| 26 | It is said that in the United States the overload of cases and the dominance of the system by plea bargaining mean that the theoretical presumption of innocence is replaced by an actual presumption of guilt in which the costs to the defendant of contesting his or her innocence are frequently overpowering . |
| 27 | It is even suggested that in the United States the routine exposure of the population to radionuclide release from coal burning in that country could be significant and possibly comparable with the effects from nuclear power ( Wilson et al. , 1980 ) . |
| 28 | In the United States the President often has to work hard to create a majority to support his proposed legislation in its passage through Congress . |
| 29 | In the United States the President is elected every four years and , according to the constitution since President Eisenhower , no president is constitutionally eligible to remain in office for more than two successive four-year terms . |
| 30 | The New Delhi paper estimated that 0.038 of a ton of oil was burnt to produce a ton of grain in India ; in the United States the figure was 0.110 . |