Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same passage , despite the narrow constriction of the valley at Djerdap , as the Danube forces its way between the Transylvanian Alps to the north and the Stara Planina to the south , may also have been a route for invaders into the Roman province of Pannonia , although the Iron Gate Pass , some 130 km ( 80 miles ) further north , afforded a better route for the Goths who descended on Pannonia from Transylvania in the middle of the fourth century AD . |
| 2 | I 'm afraid I have n't a spare copy to forward to you even on a loan basis , one never allows for the contingencies which arise . |
| 3 | Simply turn the page for the exercises we 've chosen specially for you from Massage for Total Relaxation — and then face the world with a new sense of inner calm . |
| 4 | She carried the ‘ things ’ down and put them in the boudoir , returning for the clothes which she had kicked aside which were still strewn upon the stairs . |
| 5 | It was really too cold for the clothes I had brought , so I fell back on a recommended resource . |
| 6 | When the phone was in its cradle , Jessica reached for the clothes she had discarded . |
| 7 | Red Cross workers in Oxford are preparing beds and fixing up catering for the evacuees who can stay at the centre for anything up to four months . |
| 8 | Everything is pitched right in middle ground , for the softest underbelly of taste , except for the lights which are high camp . |
| 9 | ‘ God forgive me for the thoughts I just thought . ’ |
| 10 | At each level in this hierarchy we find both a dependence on those subjects which lie below and also a claim to a degree of autonomy for the concepts which are specific to that level . |
| 11 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 12 | If there is any way by which the Wallowa Valley could be kept for the Indians I would recommend that it be done . |
| 13 | The desecration of the cave , a holy place for the Indians who lived in the Mojave Desert , caused an uproar . |
| 14 | Great excitement ( except for the Indians who ignored it all ) . |
| 15 | They looked around for the Indians who 'd helped them set up but they were n't there . |
| 16 | I felt sorry for the gypsies you know in Cross Street |
| 17 | Well , what you do is you go to your nearest leisure centre and ask if you could do the training classes for the adults who ca n't sa , who ca n't swim yet . |
| 18 | So much for the rivers themselves . |
| 19 | He must surely have supposed that Alpheus was shown in the southern gable-corner , Cladeus in the north ; and if the designer intended these figures for the rivers he would naturally have set them so . |
| 20 | She knew , of course , that men were driven by lusts of the flesh , desires that they satisfied with little or no regard for the females they wanted , but , strangely enough , she would not have considered fitzAlan to be a man to lose control of himself for that reason . |
| 21 | Naturally the male 's reproductive success rises with the number of females on his territory : but this is not the case for the females themselves . |
| 22 | erm , for the quoits there 's only two competitors |
| 23 | 7.4 In addition to this obligation under cl 7.3 , upon termination of this Agreement for whatever cause ( including effluxion of time ) the Company shall purchase from the Supplier all stocks of finished Products held by the Supplier which are not covered by purchase orders together with all stocks of unused packaging materials for the Products which are either held by the Supplier or which the Supplier is already obliged to purchase from third parties . |
| 24 | Smaller family farmers have been neglected and offered derisory prices for the products they mostly sell ( e.g. cassava and honey , see Chambers and Singer 1980 ) . |
| 25 | Once they pass they are given accreditation for the products they are allowed to sell , and that accreditation is available for the customer to see . ’ |
| 26 | Indeed , one of the key points about Berger and Mohr 's study is that such moral careers are being partly constructed by capital 's requirements for a cheap workforce and one which can be dismissed in line with fluctuating demands for the products they make . |
| 27 | These workers will only be employed if there is demand for the products they make — for export , from the government or from the employers themselves . |
| 28 | There are two possible sorts of explanation for the difficulties we have in recalling dreams . |
| 29 | So the teacher of a blind child , while allowing all along in the child 's education for the difficulties he encounters , still prefers to emphasise to everyone the sameness of the child ( his skills and achievements ) . |
| 30 | She was taking her revenge now on Bathsheba for the difficulties she had experienced in her life . |