Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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1 | proposed usage would be different from that for which the premises were let . |
2 | By 1910 ) there were 155 pupils on the roll ; although this was only five more than that for which the original buildings had been designed , and there was now also the extra Sykes classroom , the Board of Education indicated that there was serious overcrowding and something would have to be done : the School fell considerably short of modern standards , and unless the Governors could provide suitable accommodation , the grant would not be paid after July 1915 . |
3 | These seem to me considerations that should be taken with a seriousness at least equal to that for which the case in favour of the study of language has been urged . |
4 | There are many cases which end up being settled at a figure considerably higher than that for which the case might have settled , say , 1–2 years previously . |
5 | I had to accept the fact that he was an individualist , and that for him the only tolerable war was one in which he felt he was making some personal contribution — personal , but never ‘ glory-seeking ’ , as he had made clear in 1940 , not least by being prepared to postpone obtaining his commission . |
6 | David Tindle gained the impression , from conversations with Minton , that for him the central concern was the structuring of human content into form . |
7 | Even more important was the fact that people had devoted their lives to establishing the identity of such creatures ; that for someone the original distinction between Porcellio and Armadillidium had been a matter of life-consuming importance . |
8 | If you want to do this for yourself the following method is not quite so accurate , but will give you the general idea . |
9 | All of those extra sums , if you total them up , we 're talking about quite a lot of money over the budget and that 's why I 'm getting concerned because there seems to be some between what the budget said we were going to do and what a chairman here and a chairman there has agreed , and I I 'd like to get it back onto position . |
10 | If we bear in mind that the institutions that did not reply may also have included some for whom the questionnaire was inappropriate , we can assume that the responses we obtained would represent somewhere approaching half those working in teacher education at the time . |
11 | Among experienced readers , including those most passionately concerned with modernism , there are some for whom Joyce occupies nothing like so central a position , some for whom the whole drift of the later work is radically misconceived , even a colossal mistake . |
12 | A.K. Chesterton , an important member of the leadership of the BUF and later first chairman of the Directorate of the National Front , was another for whom the war had profound significance . |
13 | Their self-image was that of the chosen few for whom the spectacle provided an inexhaustible supply of objects ( and people ) to hate , and whilst the apparent ease with which they targeted and disposed of their opposition often made good copy ( the endless adventure , the scandal , etc. ) , there is a sense in which the hectoring tone of their documents became repetitive and wearisome . |
14 | Party conferences were not just piss and wind ; among the 7,000 pilgrims there were not a few for whom the hotel bedrooms of Brighton were the promised land , a weakness shared by some Tribunes of the People . |
15 | However , the information the tail-ender picks up is probably less than half of what the expert picks up . |
16 | Bosses cut their pay to half of what the trainee earns |
17 | We missed half of what the instructor told us . |
18 | And today we have a contribution to make in terms of our history of free trade , our outward-looking attitude to the world , and the weight of our tradition of parliamentary and democratic government stretching back over the centuries — something unmatched by any of our partners , for some of whom the very concept of democracy is of recent origin . |
19 | These are books by middle-aged semi-Scots who have chosen to publish accounts of their early lives which lay stress on the troubles they experienced , on the troubles inflicted , within their respective environments , by poverty and servitude , and on the responsibility of relatives for some of what the writers had to suffer . |
20 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
21 | Eastern religions — some of them the oldest known to man — have taught people for millennia to find their gods within themselves . |
22 | One of the more spectacular sites is in Gregory , Texas , where some 4 million tonnes of bauxite are kept in dumps , some of them the height of a six storey building . |
23 | In some of them the retinotopic organization is quite loose but in others it is very precise . |
24 | In some of them the Friend is described in the third person ( often as ‘ my love ’ ) and time addressed as Thou . |
25 | For teachers and other educators therefore the effectiveness of the library 's retrieval system is a matter of concern , and for some of them the way in which the retrieval system forces the enquirer to conceptualize his need is in itself a matter for educational as well as bibliothecal decision . |
26 | The experienced practitioner carries in his head the names of the best works on the subjects with which he usually deals , and the sooner the student gets to know some of them the better . |
27 | This is particularly noticeable in Picasso 's drastic treatment of the human body in the series of paintings under discussion ; in some of them the subject 's limbs are abruptly truncated . |
28 | In August 1974 Brian Johnson broadcast an appeal for radio equipment , which resulted in many offers , some of which the Museum were able to accept . |
29 | Sociologists have shown in a variety of bureaucratic and semi-bureaucratic contexts that , beneath the surface of formal rules and procedures , lie structures of informal rules — some of which the participants themselves may not be consciously aware — but which they , nevertheless , use to interpret and make sense of their more formal obligations and duties . |
30 | There were , moreover , rather more poor urban dwellers still lacking electricity supply than there were rural dwellers , and investment in the reinforcement , standardisation and extension of urban supplies ( some of which the Boards considered would be remunerative ) was being cut back while this uneconomic development of rural areas was pressed forward . |