Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the businessmen the codes offered the means to regulate levels of production and prices . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Rather , the decks have to be cleared on the domestic front to make room for the games the players want to play in . |
| 4 | The light output is quite sufficient for the speeds the vehicles are capable of . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For the Allies the consequences were dire . |
| 7 | For the children the arguaments are academic — made irrelevant by pain and misery |
| 8 | Whereas , for the empiricists the criteria of knowledge were to be found in the practices of empirical science , for the rationalists the appropriate models were those of logic and mathematics . |
| 9 | The case only confined for the policemen the inequities of the legal system : justice depends on who the prisoner gets . |
| 10 | In this respect too , the court is exercising its power of review , by identifying more closely for the police the questions that they must ask themselves in deciding whether or not they are entitled to take preventive action . |
| 11 | During the closures the authorities were reported to have sent 2,096 university teachers on special training courses in techniques of student management and control . |
| 12 | There is a great emphasis on sport and outdoor pursuits , and during the holidays the cadets are obliged to take part in adventurous training activities both in the UK and abroad . ’ |
| 13 | During the evenings the teachers arranged different activities . |
| 14 | During the excisions the glands in the vagina walls that secrete the fluids which maintain the vagina 's natural moisture balance is destroyed . |
| 15 | Disputes arose as to what should be done with the cargo and the shipowners issued an originating summons on 12 March 1991 in this court naming as the defendants the charterers of the vessel . |
| 16 | On examining the pattern of soiling it was possible to see a correlation between the times the parents had a build-up of tension about a difference of opinion and the times David began to retain his faeces . |
| 17 | Because subjects differ between the experiments the correlations calculated here are simply correlations over the 60 films of the mean ratings . |
| 18 | Between the wars the Germans did a good deal of research on nailed joints and also invented new and clever forms of mechanical connectors . |
| 19 | Between the Wars the cars were open at first , and drivers had to be well-clad in oilskins to avoid the cascade of water which poured on to them from the canopy of the open-fronted trams . |
| 20 | Shakespeare 's drama is celebrated for its poetry , a compliment that on the surface suggests ideologically neutral approval of its language , but which also belies suppositions about the attitudes the plays ' language articulates . |
| 21 | Then I told about the tales the neighbours were telling about her Mum and her men friends . |
| 22 | Talking about that , did you see that programme , I heard it on the radio actually two days ago about the fiddles the banks have been working ? |
| 23 | So what about the insulators the non-conductors ? |
| 24 | Do you think do you think about the trees the trees should stay there or what ? |
| 25 | Yet through the centuries the Maronites were able to spread south in Lebanon , through Beirut , into the lands of the Druze and Shia Muslims , the Chouf and the lower Bekaa , settling on the low stony ridge-lines south-east of Tyre . |
| 26 | Did you find that through the years the classes got bigger ? |
| 27 | Even when they are off the sledges the dogs are kept apart . |
| 28 | ‘ After the collisions the plates were able to adjust each time — fairly quickly it seems — and things went back to normal until something else came crashing in . ’ |
| 29 | In many of the towns the houses displayed the cerulean hue , both inside and out . |
| 30 | At the edge of the woods the crofters snatched up waiting spears and ready-strung bows to drive the Macleans back to the huts and the eager blades . |