Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the same time , despite the popular support for many of the activities of the provisionals north of the border , there is almost no popular support for terrorist activities against the established government in the South . |
| 32 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
| 33 | Inevitably , as a secular interpretation of morality has superseded that of established religion , so the activities of the social controller have become increasingly important in the drama . |
| 34 | Across the history of policing their need has always been for the light of research to illuminate the activities of the underprivileged and the powerless , rather than focus upon the élite themselves ! |
| 35 | To suggest from within the institution that these influential and powerful units of control are essentially ephemeral and arbitrary constructs , involved in very limited and narrow areas of practice , will almost certainly lead to a rejection of the account ; and the findings are more than likely to be attributed the same metaphorical rejection as the activities of the villains and criminals , as was illustrated in the response to the study undertaken by the Policy Studies Institute outlined above . |
| 36 | ‘ But Sky is a major risk which has grown largely because of the activities of the competition , which have forced up the price of the product infinitely higher than we expected or was necessary . |
| 37 | Eric Howe , the Data Protection Registrar , had argued that the activities of the mischievous or curious should not be criminalised . |
| 38 | The minister disappointed some supporters when he confirmed the Government had abandoned plans for legislation to curb the activities of the National Union of Students . |
| 39 | in hot countries , the markets are dynamic , and a multinational company ought to seek greater control over the activities of the ‘ middleman ’ — ie over selling . |
| 40 | Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment . |
| 41 | There are no weekends , every day is a potential workday … rains may interrupt the activities of the men … but not of the women . |
| 42 | China claims that the Hong Kong Government recently gave a written commitment to limit the activities of the pro-democracy movement in the territory . |
| 43 | The DTI showed ‘ lack of a sufficiently rigorous and enquiring approach ’ when looking at the activities of the investment group . |
| 44 | The decline in dolphin numbers in the Punjab is probably largely due to the activities of the local dagori , or dolphin catchers . |
| 45 | Little of that spirit of unity could , however , be attributed to the activities of the Communist party . |
| 46 | It seems likely that both the concern of political parties and of the public at the activities of the BUF was totally out of all proportion to its importance and to the political challenge which it presented ; as John Stevenson and Chris Cook wrote ‘ British fascism was almost a non-starter ’ . |
| 47 | The activities of the far right have been a cause for concern over here for a while now . |
| 48 | These may seem somewhat recondite fripperies , but the activities of the lord lieutenants ensure that the fine gradations of class distinction filter out from the Court across the land . |
| 49 | This no doubt explains why historians writing about Scotland in Mary 's minority have tended to sound more shocked about the activities of the Scottish nobility than historians of other contemporary societies , and find it harder to reconcile the idea of ideological commitment with changes of the political and even religious heart produced by additions to the pocket . |
| 50 | But the police continued their enquiries into the activities of the PIE , and in 1980 two other members of the group were brought to trial at the Old Bailey . |
| 51 | In his article , McAlpine calls for an inquest into the activities of the youngsters . |
| 52 | To avoid divisiveness the Board also proposed that ‘ … it would be of advantage if Resident Tutors were kept informed of the activities of the WEA in the urban districts of their respective counties ’ . |
| 53 | Altogether , during the years between 1941 and 1945 , the District appointed a total of nineteen women graduate tutors to provide courses and develop the activities of the District in Cambridgeshire , Essex , Hertfordshire , Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk . |
| 54 | The main causes seem to be the activities of the Highlands and Islands Development Board ( HIDB ) , the reorganisation of local government , and North Sea oil . |
| 55 | The activities of the Ness community cooperative , ‘ Co Chomunn Nis Ltd ’ , appeared less unusual to those of us familiar with cooperatives in developing countries , being based mainly on the supply of agricultural requisites , agricultural machinery hire , and a horticultural nursery . |
| 56 | If the activities of the British Council , and the ODA , mean anything , they are part of a battle for the hearts and minds of other nations . |
| 57 | There were three other aspects of the activities of the family farmer and part-time farmer that perhaps needed strengthening in the light of observations of European farmers . |
| 58 | Burke and Hare were amateurs compared with the activities of the Glasgow Resurrectionists . |
| 59 | From these summarized findings it is possible to derive tentative profiles of the activities of the first three teams . |
| 60 | Thus the observer looking for evidence of ‘ knowledge , skills , or expertise ’ in the activities of the specialist team might see it in their tendency , relative to the generic team , to visit more and to recommend and provide a wider range of services ; to make fewer offers of service that are refused ; and to encounter fewer occasions on which re-assessment is thought to be necessary . |