Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you get the feeling when you moved about that the members felt this that the the organizers of the union was a wee bit adrift ? |
| 2 | You are such a bad man bringing women home for me to cook for that the courts would acquit me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ No one knew him , ’ said Raynor , ‘ no one recognised him , and for that the gate-keepers and the sentries must take great blame . |
| 4 | I , I , I mean I do n't know , I was n't there for half the things she was talking about last night , I mean I was upstairs for three quarters of an hour trying to go to sleep |
| 5 | Some sellers of British Gas shares , prior to delivery of allotment letters , who had responded to press advertisements of the share-dealer Walter L Jacob & Co Ltd which has now been wound up , were told to send Jacob a cheque for half the proceeds . |
| 6 | One new size has replaced two old ones , making it impossible for half the customers to get a correct fit . |
| 7 | For example , Spellacy and Blumstein ( 1970 ) presented dichotic pairs of consonant-vowel-consonant ( cvc ) syllables among which were randomly interspersed either real English words for half the subjects or musical or environmental sounds produced by a human voice for the other half of the subjects . |
| 8 | The French government also announced that it would pay more than £5 million compensation to French fishermen for half the losses they reported last month as a result of falling prices . |
| 9 | Flatpattern bargains with the syndicate , agreeing to continue in his role as Hopkin in return for half the profits . |
| 10 | Sometimes you long for half an hours |
| 11 | Should be worth half a careers officer . |
| 12 | That is it 's worth half the marks on one of your three papers . |
| 13 | It just so happened that in Axelrod 's original tournament about half the entries were nice . |
| 14 | For some the Situationists were to be appealing . |
| 15 | At some time in our lives most of us will experience back pain — for some the consequences can be devastating . |
| 16 | For some the pumpkins were just too big to handle . |
| 17 | Many Russian exiles have long suspected that spies had been planted in their midst by the KGB , and for some the advertisements confirmed their darkest fears . |
| 18 | Marconi thus had a special importance because it provided an issue of corruption that could not be turned back by Liberals against the Unionists , and for this the Liberals had only themselves to blame . |
| 19 | For this the monks were organized into groups to ensure that praise was offered unceasingly to God . |
| 20 | For this the Singphos , whose traditional uniform is a kind of striped jacket , use their trained elephants called koonkies . |
| 21 | For this the clients , mostly professional people and businessmen who lack the time to organise their own expeditions , but who have some impressive climbing pedigrees , will get full sherpa support , oxygen and a well-stocked chain of camps along the standard South Col route from Nepal . |
| 22 | And so the line could read , ‘ Was it for this the bodies of men grew tall ? ’ |
| 23 | For this the workers had to be brought together in factories . |
| 24 | For this the samples were thawed and centrifuged at 3000 g for 10 minutes to remove the mucus . |
| 25 | For this the recantations were insufficient , and different tactics were now applied to obtain a much more abject confession . |
| 26 | A minimum contribution , equal to a part of the national insurance contributions paid by both employees and their employers , will be invested in a pension plan , and for this the employees will gain tax relief on their national insurance contributions . |
| 27 | There was another political task to which anthropology was put in the work of Marx , and for this the writings of Morgan also proved particularly appropriate . |
| 28 | For this the police have settled on a compound called Tenax G C ( poly p 2.6. diphenyl phenylene oxide ) which has the advantage that it does not mix with water . |
| 29 | When I get home Mrs Marsh has polished off half the biscuits in the tin and the teapot is all but empty . |
| 30 | My father had purchased a box of Maltesers , the chocolates with the less fattening centre , to sustain him through this no holds barred erotic horror film . |