Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | In Florida , the Caribbean , Queensland , and South East Asia they may be extremely extensive , and are important not only for the huge variety of life within them crabs , spiders , molluscs — but also for the many creatures that visit them for food ( herons , egrets ) and which breed in the shelter they provide . |
2 | As a meeting point for the many cultures that make up modern Spain , Madrid is a bustling city in the middle of the central plain known as the Meseta . |
3 | In this way the youngsters make it clear that they are not yet mature enough to be considered rivals for territories or breeding partners and are allowed to feed on the reef beside their parents for the several months that it takes them to grow to maturity . |
4 | It was , however , clearly laid down that the architects would have no claim whatever , except for the prize money offered for the several designs that might be approved . |
5 | Helen still looked doubtful , then she said tactfully , ‘ Sophie , I think we should leave Ian and Joanna alone for the few minutes that remain , do n't you ? ’ |
6 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
7 | It is for the same reasons that I would now support the denationalization of British Rail . |
8 | For the same reasons that the female is more likely to acquire infection in the throat than her male sexual partner , the homosexual male who practises oral sex is more likely to be infected in the throat than his heterosexual equivalent . |
9 | Frey 's attempt to discredit these ‘ simple ’ desires will not work here ; and for the same reasons that it was finally discredited earlier in this chapter . |
10 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
11 | In the same manner and for the same reasons that Ravenna became the capital for the western part of the Roman Empire , the lagoons on the northern shore of the Adriatic became a refuge for people fleeing from barbarian attack . |
12 | One private carrier will not carry as a matter of certainty for the same money that another will , as the prospect of a return cargo affects the question . |
13 | It is , therefore , with a sense of mounting horror that one listens to Acheson sounding the knell of US policy in China in the letter which accompanied what is usually known as the China White paper , oblivious to the possibility that the bell was tolling for the same policy that was being reborn in Vietnam . |
14 | Various Grand Met managers and executives now take the Institute of Chartered Secretaries ’ exams for the same reason that I did . |
15 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
16 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
17 | A ribbed shell of this kind is often stronger than one without ribs ( for the same reason that corrugated iron is used for roofing ) , and it is probably no coincidence that ribs may be developed on bivalves too . |
18 | The RCM held aloof for the same reason that it kept out of Poland — the resources did not stretch to additional responsibilities , or so it was argued . |
19 | He wears white for the same reason that he never drinks raksi , and that he 's eaten no food since morning . |
20 | There are no powerful pressure groups to speak for them , for the same reason that no pressure groups speak for the needs of children with special needs already in ordinary schools . |
21 | Although Darwin had turned in the right direction , he could do very little with mind and culture during his lifetime for the same reason that he was helpless before the mysteries of heredity : the basic information and modes of thought were lacking to produce the stable foundation which he correctly viewed as essential . |
22 | For the same reason that UCP Article 25 applies to air waybills it also applies to sea waybills . |
23 | We talk about whatever interests us perhaps for the same reason that Willis draws it and paints it . " |
24 | It was for this reason that his master-class in Spanish history took the form of a film , Raza ; and for the same reason that the frequency of his appearances in the state-produced cinema newsreels , No-Do , varied according to external circumstances and internal convenience , increasing when things were going well , decreasing when they were not . |
25 | Let's just think about well first of all the incoming elasticity argument right , manufactures greater than one agriculture less than one right , that 's one reason why agriculture is a declining sector right , it 's also a declining sector in world trade for the same reason that it has got a low income elasticity whereas manufacturing had a high income elasticity now , consumers like variety in food just as much as they like variety in manufactured goods alright , but what 's the problem with agricultural goods ? they 're essentially homogenous alright wheat is wheat sugar is sugar . |
26 | Again perfectly good adaptive reasons — they have two pairs of fins for the same reason that sensible aeroplanes , i.e. the aeroplanes that I used to design before people went crazy , have a wing in the front and a tailplane behind , and basically they do so because two surfaces — one in front of the other like that — is the minimum number of surfaces needed if you want to produce a vertical force through any point along your body . |
27 | Two names for the same condition that was once life-threatening to both mother and baby but could now easily be brought under control — if warning signs were heeded in time . |
28 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
29 | ANDES reports for the same month that , since 1979 , 309 teachers have been murdered , 33 were political prisoners , 24 had disappeared , 4,500 were displaced and some 4,000 in exile . |
30 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |