Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earlier that people are told the full situation and the rationale for the proposals the better . |
| 2 | Erm for the females the variance in reproductive success is of the , the differences in the female condition such as the ability to invest in offspring , erm or food producing , but among the males the variation in reproductive success are a function of male competition and female shortage . |
| 3 | On marketing , while branch managers said they believed interest rates were the biggest attraction to new customers , for the customers the key was close proximity to a branch . |
| 4 | The intervention also won for the powers the right to station soldiers in Beijing 's legation quarter to protect their nationals . |
| 5 | In Committee the alternative proposal advanced by the Hon. Member for Dumfries was for the powers the Scottish transport users consultative committee to be extended . |
| 6 | But where privacy in the little closets of the eighteenth-century house is the individual 's privilege , for the Victorians the emphasis falls much more upon exclusion . |
| 7 | He had to borrow to pay his troops , and he even had to require the Earls of Derby , Northampton and Warwick to submit to imprisonment in Malines as sureties for the debts the king owed there . |
| 8 | ‘ I know , ’ I said again , and I was too , but not for the reasons the proctologist believed . |
| 9 | For the Westernizers the process was set in train by the young Boris Chicherin , who completed " The Eastern Question from the Russian Point of View " in the month of Nicholas 's death . |
| 10 | The Civic Theatre has three series of subscription ticket offers , the second being for the plays The Heiress , with Frank Finlay heading a strong cast , from June 1–6 , and Shakers from June 8–13 , and the production of My Cousin Rachel on June 22–27 , starring Anita Harris , Edward ( Leo Howard ) Highmore and Fleur Bennett . |
| 11 | For the businessmen the codes offered the means to regulate levels of production and prices . |
| 12 | Whilst we recommend a retail price for all sizes as with all similar product on the market it will be up to the vendor to adjust for the prices the margins that they require . |
| 13 | Rather , the decks have to be cleared on the domestic front to make room for the games the players want to play in . |
| 14 | We need to provide everything from UN cap badges , to socks or spare power units for the Warriors the Cheshires are using . |
| 15 | For the Conservatives the formula was an interesting blend of imperialism and social reform . |
| 16 | For the managers the issue was clear-cut . |
| 17 | The light output is quite sufficient for the speeds the vehicles are capable of . |
| 18 | for the Russians the payment of the yasak made the natives permanent vassals . |
| 19 | I 'd got a stripe pretty quickly but lacked another qualification for the duties the colonel , doubtless a frustrated journalist himself , had mapped out for me . |
| 20 | For the Falcons the main aim of this free falling detachment is to blood the 4 new jumpers on the team , basically to make them good enough for the start of the display season in the Spring and there 's no room for lack of concentration . |
| 21 | The hotel tariff is the structure of charges made for the services the hotel provides . |
| 22 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 23 | For the Elves the present is a time that holds both the promise of renewal and the threat of destruction . |
| 24 | For the families the dead have left behind though , that 's little consolation . |
| 25 | Equality before the law , for the reformers the principal condition of the effective exercise of royal power , contained the pattern of a social revolution which must destroy the privileged groups of traditional society . |
| 26 | For the Council , the creation of the new institutions has greatly added to its work , while for the colleges the rigours of course submission and CNAA validation procedures have , in some cases , been traumatic . |
| 27 | For the Turks the rediscovered hinterland is the Muslim ex-Soviet republics of central Asia . |
| 28 | For the women the figure was 47 per cent — though another 33 per cent got through second time . |
| 29 | In any case occupying them was of little interest to the Spanish authorities , for the islands the English settled had a much smaller area than Jamaica , the smallest and least developed of the Spanish islands ; later on , after it had been taken from the Spanish , Jamaica was the most important of the English Caribbean islands , but this only serves to show how small the English settlements were . |
| 30 | Whilst , for the cases the intersection on the other side of a ) becomes unboundedly large as δ tends to unity . |