Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should ask national income estimators conceptual questions such as : which of the activities a farm family does for itself without payment , such as haircutting for example , have you included in the national income ? ’ , says a leading development economist ( Seers 1979 : 15 ) . |
| 2 | She will not , indeed can not , make any form of assessment but will , in discussion with the parent , describe the activities the child enjoys and his responses to playgroup life in a relaxed , familiar and friendly atmosphere . |
| 3 | The disciplines a Designer works by demand some very special qualities — in effect they demand a specialist in many wide-ranging fields , coupled with virtual Sherlock Holmes powers of observation . |
| 4 | Below the continents the crust is much thicker , averaging about 35 km but reaching up to 70km beneath some mountain ranges . |
| 5 | On the other , you have to use a word processor or text editor to change the layout of any of the forms the package can produce , and can only use one font in any one document ( which is hardly in the spirit of Windows ) . |
| 6 | In Persian uses of Arabic script , for instance , words are distinguished from each other by the forms the letter takes at the beginning , middle or end of a word but there are no particular conventions for indicating where a sentence begins and ends . |
| 7 | I 'll explain to you about the course , and the exams the rest of it . |
| 8 | We do the exams the week before , er before . |
| 9 | ‘ Something like 30 per cent of the contracts the MoD is prepared to let are now operated by contract caterers , and those include facilities management as well as pure catering . |
| 10 | For the purpose of the Acts a dealer is ‘ a person who in the normal course of his business attends sales by auction for the purpose of purchasing goods with a view to reselling them . ’ |
| 11 | The desire to teach the experts a lesson took on manic proportions . |
| 12 | The report challenges many of the professional verities and calls into question many of the attitudes the profession has struck in recent years . |
| 13 | In the mid-1970s a strain of Bt was found in Israel that was active against Diptera and in particular against mosquitoes and blackflies . |
| 14 | In the mid-1970s an argument for the existence of a black hole at the Galactic Centre came from the discovery of a γ -ray line at 511keV ( ref. 78 ) attributed to the annihilation of electrons and positrons from the general direction of the nucleus . |
| 15 | Since the mid-1970s the proportion of stock held by non financial companies has risen partly because of the constraints placed on stockholding by banks and financial institutions . |
| 16 | By the mid-1970s the purity of Gardiner 's reorganization of the criminal courts was jeopardized by the Crown Courts becoming overburdened with large numbers of relatively trivial offences . |
| 17 | From the mid-1970s the Committee and its officers were engaged in a process of sponsoring debate and planning , including through such conferences as one on school experience and the assessment of practical teaching , held in York in October 1976 — a pioneer conference from which emerged a CNAA-funded research project which reported three years later . |
| 18 | SOME of the longer-serving staff and graduates may remember that in the mid-1970s the University embarked on a major review of its Charter and Statutes , designed to make changes in governance which we thought desirable after ten years of operation . |
| 19 | By the mid-1970s the conflict between the army , the Bengali settlers and the tribespeople was under way . |
| 20 | From the mid-1970s the slow-down in economic growth and rising inflation sapped the confidence of policy-makers in demand management . |
| 21 | In the period from 1960 to the mid-1970s the purchasing power available to the NHS rose by 4 per cent per annum on average . |
| 22 | It started with Q selling DEADMEAT in the clubs a while back . |
| 23 | Yet at the weekend , when the clocks went forward an hour at 1am , the police in Darlington moved in and closed the clubs an hour early . |
| 24 | It does not seem to me to address the problem to say that if the producers produce the programmes the audience will supply the criticism . |
| 25 | What they have not yet recognised is that , if that is normality , if those are the institutions the system requires and that their normal behaviour , then the system is wrong and another is needed , a new economic model which will mark an advance from the sterile confrontation between Capitalism and Socialism , thesis and antithesis , to the synthesis providing a long overdue advance in democratic practice and a means of treating the chronic and disabling debility of the national economy . |
| 26 | Although there were some reservations of this kind in both industry and the institutions the balance of opinion was with the sandwich course , and within the Committee for Science and Technology and its boards the commitment to sandwich courses remained strong . |
| 27 | Our Mr Phillips helped John Logie Baird rescue the gear , carrying it out through the flames the night Crystal Palace burnt down . |
| 28 | Recipes disseminated by such bodies — one does appreciate that in the case of the Trappists a spokesman is essential — are bound to be suspect , but not all the public relations cookery experts are as cruelly antihumanitarian as the lady who publicized the traditional Welsh trifle for St David 's Day to be made with one tin of fruit salad and one packet of Birds Pineapple Instant Whip , a leek confected from angelica , piped cream , cocoa powder and desiccated coconut adding the finishing festive touches . |
| 29 | The full version of this dictionary lists all the meanings a word has had , with quotations to illustrate them . |
| 30 | She hates even using the meanings the way he helped design them . |