Example sentences of "certain [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Night waking Some professionals suggest that parents should wake their children at certain times during the night to get them to go to the lavatory . |
| 2 | Facilities for homeless people are of course open only at certain times of the day and I had n't the money to go anywhere else . |
| 3 | At certain times of the year , hanging from the ceiling amid the festoons of dried sausages , cheeses , onions and garlic , will be a haunch of wild boar . |
| 4 | The Independent Television Commission does suggest that Channel 5 might offer local television to individual cities at certain times of the day , and that it might wish to base itself outside London , but only if it chooses . |
| 5 | Since 1985 the German Drinking Water Ordinance has specified ‘ protection zones ’ of 100–500 metres around bore-holes , and the UK Nitrate Coordination Group noted in 1986 that the Germans were giving ‘ consideration … to stricter catchment area regulations laying down maximum nitrate fertiliser application rates , banning its use at certain times of the year and requiring changes in the land use ’ . |
| 6 | In the palaeolithic period men were already aware that at certain times of the year animals and plants are less prolific than at others , and seasonal ritual observances to maintain an adequate supply of them were therefore deemed necessary . |
| 7 | All of these hunt by day , and at certain times of the year they may take large numbers of small mammal prey . |
| 8 | This is because astronomical observations using the hardware can take place only at certain times of the year . |
| 9 | No-one 's suggesting the magazine returns to its dilute if all-encompassing format of several years ago ; what we will be doing however , at certain times of the year , is responding to our reader 's main requests and interests . |
| 10 | The importance of certain times of the day , month or year suggests that the energy fluctuates according to cosmic cycles , and the rituals followed this . |
| 11 | If your elderly parent is in the habit of doing this , the only way around it is to tell her quite frankly , as kindly as possible ( even at the risk of giving some offence ) , that there are certain times of the day when it is very difficult for you to make or receive phone calls except in an emergency . |
| 12 | The mill is now owned and maintained by Beverley Borough Council and is open to the public at certain times of the year . |
| 13 | Powerglyde can also be used with a standard plug-in timer to automatically open and close your curtains at certain times of the day , giving you added security whenever you 're away from home . |
| 14 | And erm so that the campaign was working on two levels one to persuade women that they did n't have to take time off from working in factories , at certain times of the month and another to persuade women to use erm internal sanitary protection and as I said I will explain why later it comes into another section . |
| 15 | Hotels showing this symbol offer an exciting ‘ package ’ of entertainment & attractions or an excursion at certain times of the year FREE of charge to customers staying 3 nights or more . |
| 16 | At certain times of the month and whatever , I could be using half a gram a day and towards the end of the month whatever money I had left went on It . |
| 17 | Are you aware that you eat differently at certain times of the month and perhaps even crave sweet food when your period arrives ? |
| 18 | But they could never have imagined the extent to which their fame would spread , so much so that today , at certain times of the year , visitors to the spa almost double Baden 's population . |
| 19 | So every hotel has its own spring and therapeutic installations which are , however , available to the general public at certain times of the day . |
| 20 | And perhaps only at certain times of the year , especially in agricultural communities . |
| 21 | There can not be many general booksellers who do not broaden their product range beyond books at certain times of the year . |
| 22 | It may be possible at certain times of the day to observe roe deer in adjoining fields . |
| 23 | No , we used to actually actually do that , like you had nights out , maybe Christmas and certain times of the year you had a night but that 's kind of stopped here . |
| 24 | This is purported to walk the grave yard at certain times of the year , but firm evidence of this I 've not been able to find ; you always hear that someone else has seen it but never first hand . |
| 25 | Despite the cataclysmic statistics the demographers throw at us , families in many parts of Africa today will tell you that at certain times of the year they suffer from a severe labour shortage . |
| 26 | All these measures will save fuel and many thermostats can also be used in conjunction with a programmer to bring the hot water heating on only at certain times of the day . |
| 27 | Supplementing garden material with florist flowers is both sensible and necessary at certain times of the year . |
| 28 | ‘ At certain times of the month women terrify me . ’ |
| 29 | There are many Northern Ireland milk-producers who will fall into one of the MMB 's penalty bands for cell-counts over 401,000 at certain times of the year . ’ |
| 30 | At certain times of the day , the children work as individuals or in small groups , helping them to learn how to socialise and to share with their peers . |