Example sentences of "they occur [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A brief account of them occurs in the memoirs of William Tuckwell . |
| 2 | The Nones were so named because they occurred on the ‘ ninth ’ day before the Ides . |
| 3 | Subjects spent longer reading words when they occurred at the end of a clause or a sentence . |
| 4 | So many Britons whose lives were little more than hard unremitting toil would have used the licence of the festival to make fun of these imagined orgies , especially if they occurred in the great houses . |
| 5 | Leaks can have very serious consequences in terms of the damage they cause to your home — especially if they occur on the central heating system . |
| 6 | Sometimes colourful with red or orange pigments , they occur on the dry rocky plains of northern Greenland , Alaska and Canada , on the Siberian islands , on dry rocks among the tundra where nothing else grows ( Richardson and Finegan , 1977 ) , and throughout Antarctica , including inland mountains less than 500km from the South Pole ( Greene and others , 1967 , Cameron et al . , |
| 7 | The main characteristic of rejuvenation terraces and breaks of slope in the valley side caused by the same process is that the terraces are essentially paired , so that they occur at the same elevation on both sides of the valley . |
| 8 | All voiced sounds are likely to lose a certain amount of voicing when they occur at the end of a word or at the beginning . |
| 9 | We shall begin our investigation of how causative verbs interact with the infinitive in English by looking at the contrast between make and cause because , although these two verbs seem quite similar in meaning , they are not followed by the same form of the infinitive : ( 134 ) While most enzymes can not make a reaction occur that would not take place in their absence , they speed up reactions so that they occur at the temperatures and other conditions which prevail within living organisms . |
| 10 | For many weak-form words , when they occur at the end of a sentence . |
| 11 | Such denials of worth , whether they occur within the career structure of a particular school , or whether , through such things as pay erosion , they are seen to emanate more diffusely from society at large , lead some teachers to seek an exit from the profession . |
| 12 | The characteristics of a conservation are are usually characteristics of special quality in environmental or building terms , and as such they are likely to promote a contribution to the quality of the setting of York where they occur within the greenbelt area . |
| 13 | Together with ants , they are collectively known as the Hymenoptera , and they occur throughout the world ; some bumblebees even inhabit the high Arctic region . |
| 14 | The individual reader should , however , omit the instructor boxes since these may introduce confusion and possible solutions to problems before they occur in the text . |
| 15 | Single events rarely cause a major restructuring of the child 's personality : they occur in the context of a continuous interaction with the environment which itself is not static and which may modify , strengthen or weaken the consequences of what has happened already . |
| 16 | For example , the key words of a pattern diagram , as they occur in the text , could be highlighted , and all the recommendations on underlining can also be followed by highlighting . |
| 17 | Hostile amendments are particularly awkward if they occur in the autumn , near the end of the parliamentary session , when the time available for further reconsideration is short . |
| 18 | For example , with the exception of contexts in which they are presented contrastively , pronouns , being context-dependent , always carry a low degree of CD irrespective of where they occur in the clause . |
| 19 | They occur in the deserts of Africa , Syria and Arabia , and in the regions of the Rhine and Danube . |
| 20 | The other terms , for example , are all the same in each market , so on averaging they occur in the same form as they do in an individual market . |
| 21 | Further , accuracy is better because the method does not consider portions of the utterances with low credibility until they become possible extensions of the current best interpretation , whereas a left-to-right strategy is forced to deal with unpromising portions as they occur in the utterance . |
| 22 | While short-term separation of parent and child under favourable circumstances is unlikely to be damaging to the child , long-term separations can have more serious effects , particularly when they occur in the first three to four years of the child 's life . |
| 23 | All the conformational changes observed in the -50 and upstream regions require the presence of both CRP and wild-type RNA polymerase : none of them occur with the mutant enzymes . |
| 24 | So it still was n't gon na meet the actual need that prompted them to occur in the first place . |