Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 32 years experience in the carpet business , Richard Williams joined the Contracts Division in October as Special Projects Manager based in London . |
| 2 | Current Labour Party policy would like to see the establishment of a Quality Commission which would incorporate some of the present duties of the Audit Commission in England and Wales and the Accounts Commission in Scotland . |
| 3 | It is chaired by , a practising auditor , a member of the Auditing Practices Board and chairman of the Accounts Commission in Scotland . |
| 4 | Taking his hint , Fei Yen straightened the p'i p'a in her lap and , after a moment 's concentration , began to play . |
| 5 | The Giants Stadium in New York looks likely to use a pitch smaller than FIFA specifications , while the problems associated with growing grass in an indoor stadium — the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit — are still under consideration . |
| 6 | The Aug. 6 statement was accompanied by a photograph of United States hostage Terry Anderson , kidnapped in March 1985 and now detained for longer than any other of the Westerners captive in Lebanon . |
| 7 | Louise Hignett , a stylist from Keith Hall the Hairdressers salon in Arnold , Nottingham , cut off the damaged ends and texturised it throughout to encourage the curl and take some of the weight out of it . |
| 8 | And true to form Flippin Shytalk roars across the line to win again … the National Championship should be their 's this summer … they defy the dangers week in week out … there 's no money to be won just fun to be had … |
| 9 | Nigel was teaching drama so the project had already moved out of the Humanities department in a rather unsystematic way . |
| 10 | The Derry republicans had organised a Release the Prisoners Committee in 1962 , but they then retired into obscurity until 1966 , when six members were arrested for taking part in an illegal Easter Rising commemoration . |
| 11 | Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) . |
| 12 | The German attack in Galicia , centred on Gorlice , began on 28 April and , by the concentrated deployment of great quantities of artillery , swept the Russians east in disarray . |
| 13 | It is 1972 and I am travelling in a minibus through the Bekaa Valley , The Times correspondent in Ireland on holiday in Lebanon , unwittingly choosing to spend my vacation in the country in which I shall much later spend more than 13 years of my life . |
| 14 | AFTER eight years as The Times man in the north of England , Peter Davenport has left ‘ The Thunderer ’ to become a partner in the expanding Harrogate public relations , design and contract publishing company Paul Sowerby Associates . |
| 15 | The broadsheet idea , or at least the name , was borrowed by The Times newspaper in the First World War , when it organised the printing and distribution of literary extracts , reminiscent of home , for the comfort of the troops . |
| 16 | The consolidated accounts comprise the accounts of the parent company and all its subsidiary undertakings and include the groups interest in associated undertakings . |
| 17 | The Bulls Head in Hereford found a buyer at £100,000 pounds and the Burley Gate Inn in the city went for 120,000 . |
| 18 | They come from all over to drink at the Bulls Head in Craswall , on the Herefordshire Wales border . |
| 19 | I have corrected the final marking to what I consider a more just assessment and have spoken to the senior biologist about the personnel management in his department . |
| 20 | If you have a personnel department , you 'll be able to speak to the personnel manager in confidence . |
| 21 | Please write briefly for an application form , quoting appropriate reference number , to the Personnel Section in Heidelberg , Germany . |
| 22 | By contrast , the Corinthians passage in which Paul speaks of male headship , and in which it is said that women should be silent ( a verse which is probably an interpolation and does not owe to Paul ) , he is concerned with a practical situation which has arisen , a situation in which the church , still insecure in a pagan world , was likely to cause scandal if it departed too far from social convention — and his concern is that it should not unnecessarily put itself in jeopardy . |
| 23 | Large projects can distort the skills requirement in a locality for short durations . |
| 24 | If we ever climb out of the current recession , the skills shortage in the industry will be a major problem . |
| 25 | The association 's executive director of training , Ray Chlopas , said yesterday : ‘ The skills shortage in the Borders is getting worse by the week . |
| 26 | The Spurs Club in London raised the magnificent sum of £760 in three years for a variety of armed services ' benevolent funds . |
| 27 | That makes nonsense of the planning procedure and adds to the difficulties of the local objectors , which already include the 9 kg of paper produced by the roads directorate in Scotland , so that no proper analysis or preparation of arguments can be done in advance . |
| 28 | People scrambled away from the centre of the Operations Room in panic . |
| 29 | But increasingly , doubts , some of which can be traced back to a general report on the supply of professional services by the Monopolies Commission in 1970 , were raised about whether restraints on competition in the professions are necessarily beneficial . |
| 30 | The case was concerned with a claim by the Secretary of State for an injunction restraining Hoffmann-La Roche from charging prices for certain drugs in excess of those specified in an Order , approved by both Houses of Parliament , made following an enquiry and report by the Monopolies Commission in which the Commission concluded that the prices charged by Hoffmann-La Roche were excessive . |