Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] for the [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She clapped her hands over her ears waiting for the water that was almost upon them , aware of the damage it was going to cause . |
| 2 | The Poles stood with their capital at their backs while the Russians prepared for the assault that would end the war . |
| 3 | The captain assembled with his fellows in the Dominican monastery next to the Palace , watching bright-eyed as the notables arrived for the procession that would march eastwards from the Porta Santo Domenico to the Cathedral of Santa Sofia . |
| 4 | And then both factions waited for the battle that must come . |
| 5 | The chronic nature of the symptoms , the benign appearance of the gastric lesions on endoscopy , and the equivocal histological aspect of the lesions account for the fact that numerous MALT lymphomas were considered ‘ pseudolymphomas ’ until the monoclonal nature of the proliferation could be routinely shown by immunochemistry . |
| 6 | In those circumstances it does not seem to me right to leave open , whether the court has power to do so I 'm doubtful , but in any event it does not seem to me right to leave open a question of whether there should be some damages to provide for the possibility that er Paul may have to leave school , nor do I think that it is a situation in which any contingency award should be made in respect of that . |
| 7 | It is possible to calculate hypothetical exchange rates to allow for the fact that specific commodities ( say , bread , video cassettes etc. ) are cheaper in country A than country B. Such comparisons of production on the basis of ‘ real income per head ’ , or ‘ purchasing power parity ’ showed the UK in 1985 to have 64.8 per cent of the income of the USA , or 85.6 per cent of the average of six countries shown at Figure 2.2 . |
| 8 | When this failed , the union instructed their members working for the butcher that , if he continued to buy L's meat , they were to cease work . |