Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But that quartet seems responsible to a greater or lesser extent for the flavours most people like . |
| 32 | And for the volunteers this royal performance will leave special memories . |
| 33 | Used to get deliveries of it for the pigs that 's how they started up . |
| 34 | Other players who have turned out for the Nomads this season include the likes of Peter Dixon and Brian and Harry Patrick . |
| 35 | In this way the two types of discourse provide a context of meaning for the participants such that kinship relations as practical action can be considered as meaningful . |
| 36 | For the cards this was expected to correlate with known area . |
| 37 | For many emigrants , conditions at sea were no better than for the animals these ships carried . |
| 38 | Investors , who have seen life breathed into a share price that was destined for the doldrums this year , may have a different view . |
| 39 | The problem for the Scots this time , whatever their varying political and religious persuasions , was that there was no-one to whom they could turn as a counter-weight . |
| 40 | Cos if we put sort of ten thousand away the interest would be paying for the fees all the time would n't it ? |
| 41 | ‘ I wo n't have much time for the pictures any more . |
| 42 | pounds for that griddle there 's so and so 's money and there 's the money for the flowers all in these little bags of money , been counting out all this money and they got home seven o'clock that night and he was then do n't know where he was going with me erm but they piles in the car all three of them the girls have got ta have a shower so they stayed there and er ooh I know where they was going ! |
| 43 | For the Kurds this was a tragedy . |
| 44 | Lastly , David O'Leary is due to play his first comeback game for the reserves this week . |
| 45 | Yeah Gosh a record seven hundred thousand Brits are expected to head for the slopes this winter with the snow the best in Europe for twenty years |
| 46 | She insisted on putting out the clothes for the children each morning and preparing meals for them as usual . |
| 47 | For the children this was a day to wonder . |
| 48 | On the other hand , a glance at the likes of Federico Mendez suggests if he is good enough , he is old enough — unless you subscribe to the theory that the dates of birth of Argentinian props are as suspect as those of Pakistani fast bowlers ! ( * For the cricketers this refers to Mike and Mike , not Wes and Charlie ) . |
| 49 | That plastic cupboard for the keyboards that |
| 50 | Both the Littlewoods actually , Banbury and Oxford are putting up teams , and so are , we understand , fifteen of the NatWest banks in Oxfordshire , so there 's a lot going on and er we think the walks in Oxfordshire are going to go a long way towards raising this vitally needed million pounds for the rainforests this year |
| 51 | During the vacations each year there are obligatory field courses . |
| 52 | My Old Dobbin syndrome , aided and abetted by friendship with Albert Rhys Williams , was the basic incentive for hitch-hiking about 12,000 miles to and from the interior of Russia during the holidays that summer . |
| 53 | During the persecutions those who had most to lose in terms of this world 's goods were the rich Christians , whose property was liable to confiscation unless they ‘ apostatized ’ . |
| 54 | In speech we frequently use reference words such as the demonstratives this and that or the personal pronouns , he , she , it to point to persons or objects present and therefore known to the participants . |
| 55 | As the teachers all had full-time commitments outside the project , they were only able to meet when the pupils were working on the project . |
| 56 | And in a way it 's become easier as the times this might sound funny as the times gone on . |
| 57 | The above review of the branches of geomorphology would perhaps indicate that the increasing emphasis upon process was accompanied by increasing fragmentation of geomorphology as the branches each became more closely associated with other disciplines . |
| 58 | ‘ The only difference between the lineouts this year and last is that you can get penalised in a few more areas . |
| 59 | Moreover , only Wiltshire experienced a cutback in growth rate between the decades that was greater than the national figure , while 15 of the 20 areas saw a positive movement in growth rate against the national trend . |
| 60 | As a child between the wars this had been his playground . |