Example sentences of "for the [noun sg] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bill for the damage when the Amoco Cadiz foundered off the coast of Brittany , before the compensation fund was set up , is still grinding through the courts , 12 years on . |
| 2 | The problem was too many men applying for too few places ; in 1895 , eighty-seven men passed the required examination for the ministry although the college still had only sixty places . |
| 3 | This is probably the most satisfactory method for the landlord since the regularity of his cash flow will be maintained . |
| 4 | No matter that she had no idea of the story behind the dance , she watched entranced for the half-hour as the orchestra played , fauns cavorted , lovers kissed and villains fought . |
| 5 | Mr Fagan , who was 30 at the time , was not prosecuted for the trespass after the Director of Public Prosecutions ruled there was no evidence that the trespass was a criminal offence . |
| 6 | Programs such as Studio Software 's DO-IT and Software Publishing 's Harvard Professional Publisher ( now long defunct and actually licensed from Bestinfo of SuperPage and Wave4 fame ) were emerging for the PC while the Macintosh was also being targeted by Manhattan Graphics with Ready , Set , Go ! ( now distributed by Letraset ) and Boston Publishing Systems with the now defunct MacPublisher . |
| 7 | The bedside table is usually the best place for the telephone if the bedroom is properly heated . |
| 8 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 9 | He sped to the line for the try after the ball evaded Packman and Northampton were on the edge of defeat . |
| 10 | She says it 's going to provide a lot more information about the site for the public once the Friary is opened to visitors . |
| 11 | More for the champagne than the golf . |
| 12 | A Press Trust of India ( PTI ) report on Feb. 21 claimed that Congress ( I ) had threatened to withdraw its support for the government unless the five ministers were removed . |
| 13 | Winding up for the Government when the new clause was debated in the House of Commons on 14 April 1948 , Ede faithfully followed the Cabinet 's line , expounding the case for retention on the grounds that public opinion was not conducive to any change , adding as a supporting argument that the unarmed police had to contend with a ‘ class of gangster and armed criminal which hardly existed at all before the war ’ . |
| 14 | The right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East said yesterday that he would vote for the Government because the Prime Minister was clearly determined to follow a path that the right hon. and learned Gentleman favoured . |
| 15 | We were walking round Walham Green Park discussing the hymns for the service when the siren went . |
| 16 | The pause after the first shot making sure they 'd killed him which is n't easy to do with a heart shot but they could n't go for the head because the sight line would n't fit with shooting at the President 's head — ’ |
| 17 | The instructor 's braking would have been required for the stopping if the pupil had not braked . |
| 18 | But when he asks why it is not cleaned out , he is told that the man of the house is in no humour for it , after the fourteen hours of his day 's labour , and that there is in any case no water for the purpose since the poor must pay to fetch it up the hill . |
| 19 | Barclay reveals that Johannesburg was chosen for the build-up because the altitude is similar to Kenya and the players have been there before , though Ireland , if they are also accepted into the AMC , will restrict their build-up to a week in Kenya before the tournament . |
| 20 | ‘ We are already putting more money into free travel for the blind since the previously consistent approach to concessionary fares by borough councils started breaking down in the face of financial pressures ’ , he added . ’ |
| 21 | He talks about people going for the trolley when the smoke comes out of a house . |
| 22 | Here , anything that threatens the superego tends to be destructive ; and we can readily see that the externalization of conflict , although defensive for the ego , may be damaging for the culture because the effect of the externalization is to make the culture the locus of the conflict . |
| 23 | The perversity of the decision should not detract from the flaws it appeared to expose in sport 's crusade to eradicate drug abuse , nor the manner in which it showed that financial considerations were as responsible for the debacle as the gross ineptitude of the DLV . |
| 24 | The introduction of the new block grant system for local authorities under the Local Government , Planning and Land Act 1980 resulted in one hiccough for the minister when the Divisional Court held that he had not listened to further representations when he should have done . |
| 25 | The person named in the order will have parental responsibility for the child while the order is in force . |
| 26 | The defence was that there was no consideration for the promise because the plaintiff was bound by his existing contract to assist in sailing the ship . |
| 27 | There may well be problems ahead both for the pupil and for the school if the child 's family are not in agreement with the professionals ' decisions about the educational placement proposed . |
| 28 | Essential to this is making the measurement and reporting of performance against plan meaningful — and that goes as much for the board as the managers . |
| 29 | He hired a car for the journey because the cottage was difficult to reach any other way . |
| 30 | The appropriateness of the comments is not one for the committee since the committee has no responsibility for the judges , their selection or their comments . |