Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that for widows the first recommendation of 1871 was generally observed , some Boards of Guardians going further and insisting that the widow maintain two children by herself before any relief was given , while others refused relief to healthy able-bodied widows no matter how many children they had . |
| 2 | These were the occasions which enabled them to display for hours the rigid immobility for which they were famous throughout Europe . |
| 3 | Indeed , for generations the Royal Family have had their own secluded haven just a few miles downriver . |
| 4 | It is seen as extending horizons , the means for communicating between generations the accumulated wisdom of a culture , offering opportunities to engage in more abstract context-independent learning . |
| 5 | For contemporaries the moral that they order these things better in France was particularly easy to draw , for Neptune had been independently and at the same time predicted by U. J. J. Le Verrier . |
| 6 | New venue : Crook Local History Society has a new venue for meetings the Royal Sun . |
| 7 | Between sessions the Co-ordinating Commission drafted new rules of procedure to speed matters up . |
| 8 | For Marxists the basic motor of unrest in all capitalist societies is proletarians ' direct experience of exploitation and alienation in production . |
| 9 | It 's funny , I thought about sweeteners the other day , I think it 's just as bad as sugar , I think . |
| 10 | Persian is also one of the two principal languages of Afghanistan , is spoken in what was Soviet Central Asia , and was for centuries the official language of much of the Indian subcontinent , where many fine poets wrote in Persian . |
| 11 | For centuries the Roman catholic church and faith were the bread of life to the subordinate classes in Ireland , deprived of their land , civil rights , and education . |
| 12 | For centuries the outer edges of the world map dwindled to empty lands and seas where early cartographers filled the vast spaces with sea monsters and mythical creatures which gave rise to the figure of speech ‘ Here be Dragons ’ . |
| 13 | Land , for centuries the economic base of the aristocracy , was no longer the chief source of wealth . |
| 14 | For centuries the traditional business of the hijras has been begging , dancing at melas ( fairs ) — and prostitution . |
| 15 | Architectural influence here is not notable since timber has been for centuries the traditional building material . |
| 16 | On a rocky eminence commanding what was for centuries the lowest point at which the Forth could be bridged , the castle — on the site of a Roman fort — and its steeply pitched town stand between what was once a marshy plain and the shadowy beginnings of the Highlands beyond , with the Ochils and Trossachs already edging in . |
| 17 | For centuries the emergent states had to limit their ambitions to silver pennies , successors of the denarius . |
| 18 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 19 | For centuries the British physician has told the patient not to bother about his health . |
| 20 | MYSELF : If an Arab entered a room and separated fourteen Jews from the rest , or a white man in a peaked hood with slits for eyes the same number of number of blacks , nobody would be wasting their time denying the anti-semitic or racist nature of the crime . |
| 21 | For policymakers the key point to recognise is that the way that people whom the organisation wishes to lose are treated is paramount , not just for their sakes , but also for those whom the organisation wishes to keep . |
| 22 | ‘ Just for once , for p'raps the only time in your life , take a bit of advice from your elders and betters . ’ |
| 23 | For months the two men continued as rivals , gently courting Camilla . |
| 24 | This kind of prestige was formalized in ploughing matches for the horsemen , while for stockmen the equivalent public arenas for competition were markets and agricultural shows . |
| 25 | After trials the General Electrolytic Alkali Co. was established in 1899 with Hargreaves as a director and production began at Cledford Bridge near Middlewich in 1901 . |
| 26 | AFTER VIDEO-recorders the Japanese invasion continues in the form of bonsai trees . |
| 27 | As Endill was walking back to his dormitory after lessons the next day he heard a faint ticking at the end of the main corridor . |
| 28 | It could either provide that all married women should hold their property as their separate property — thus giving to all married women the right to dispose of their property and to make contracts binding it which formerly could only be given to them by a will or a settlement ; or it could adopt the more straightforward course of making the capacity of a married woman to own property , make contracts , and incur liability for torts the same as that of a man . |
| 29 | And the mining communities , for decades the only real counterweight to a coup-prone army , are disappearing . |
| 30 | Rival clubs ' fans are now more worried about Linfield signing their top players ; for decades the talented Catholics in opposing teams were safe from the Windsor predators but all that has changed . |