Example sentences of "the [noun pl] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Below the continents the crust is much thicker , averaging about 35 km but reaching up to 70km beneath some mountain ranges . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'll explain to you about the course , and the exams the rest of it . |
| 6 | We do the exams the week before , er before . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | The report challenges many of the professional verities and calls into question many of the attitudes the profession has struck in recent years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | By the mid-1970s the conflict between the army , the Bengali settlers and the tribespeople was under way . |
| 14 | From the mid-1970s the slow-down in economic growth and rising inflation sapped the confidence of policy-makers in demand management . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Our Mr Phillips helped John Logie Baird rescue the gear , carrying it out through the flames the night Crystal Palace burnt down . |
| 20 | She hates even using the meanings the way he helped design them . |
| 21 | In company law it can equally be argued that by casting trustee-like duties on directors so that they are required to act only in the interests of the shareholders the law aims to ensure that the will of the shareholders is implemented . |
| 22 | Instead of being perceived simply as agents of the shareholders the board of directors came to be viewed as an organ of the company which for many purposes could be treated as the company . |
| 23 | Among those Cabinet Ministers entrusted with the discussions the view was expressed that in talking to the Burmese they would not encounter ‘ the purely ‘ Bazaar approach ’ . |
| 24 | It may be appropriate to establish in the course of the discussions the information on the potential acquiror which may be conveyed back to the client . |
| 25 | LORD HANWORTH M.R. [ after stating the facts and accepting the principle that a creditor is not bound by an agreement to accept a smaller sum in satisfaction of a larger ascertained amount , unless there be a benefit or even any legal possibility of benefit to the creditor thrown in ] : We have , therefore , to consider whether the agreement that was made here on July 6 was an agreement to do anything else than simply to pay on Friday , July 8 , into the hand of the creditors the sum which was already ascertained and in respect of which there was not only the legal liability , but a duty enforceable by any mode of execution against the debtor . |
| 26 | His warning drove home the dangers the bloodletting posed to the plan he drafted with U.S. statesman Cyrus Vance to divide Bosnia into ten ethnically based provinces under a weak central government . |
| 27 | For the Westernizers the process was set in train by the young Boris Chicherin , who completed " The Eastern Question from the Russian Point of View " in the month of Nicholas 's death . |
| 28 | Of course , insiders are well aware of the drama which surrounds interrogation and do not need to be reminded or really welcome such information being made public , for as a detective colleague pointed out after reading Irving 's paper , ‘ if we do n't use fear , force , fraud or the promise , how do they think we are going to clear up the crime and get the coughs the system needs to survive ? ’ |
| 29 | On the other hand , central government owes no such duty to taxpayers who can not , directly at least , challenge in the courts the way government decides to use tax revenue : the control of public expenditure is seen as a matter for Parliament . |
| 30 | Yet judicial scrutiny has been expressly excluded : first by denying the courts the power to question decisions of the Tribunal , and secondly and more importantly by denying the courts the power to refuse to admit evidence obtained as a result of illegal or improper interceptions. ( a ) The exclusive jurisdiction of the Tribunal It is a general principle of English law that the decisions of inferior tribunals ( such as social security appeal tribunals , industrial tribunals , or immigration appeal tribunals ) should be the subject of appeal to the higher courts . |