Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly . |
| 2 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 3 | She had drifted off , and had been fast asleep for some hours when the sound of someone 's keeping their finger pressed on her doorbell roused her from a deep sleep . |
| 4 | For some decades now the lowest average fertility has been found , not at the top of the social scale , but among families where the husband is in social class IIIN ( clerical workers , clerks , salesmen ) . |
| 5 | Occasionally a gelding , or even a mare , may be so aggressive that there is a real possibility of it seriously injuring another horse , especially if there are shelter sheds another horse can be trapped in , although for some horses even the corner of the paddock is enough . |
| 6 | It was n't King Street any more of course — at least , not officially , for some months earlier the Cork Corporation had defiantly renamed it MacCurtain Street in honour of the city 's martyred Lord Mayor . |
| 7 | For some shares therefore the deals were often done on a matched basis . |
| 8 | 4. 1957 saw the return of trams to Squires Gate Lane after many years when the Circular Tour was revived . |
| 9 | In the 1984 debate on the shipbuilding industry Peter Shore , the opposition spokesman on Trade and Industry , said : ‘ I can think of few industries where the medium to long-term view of demand is more necessary . ’ |
| 10 | It follows , therefore , that this contingency insurance will , subject to its terms and conditions , indemnify the bank/organisation in the event of a claim arising from an insured peril in respect of such properties where the original policy is found for some reason not to be sufficient to protect the bank's/organisation 's interest and so long as the bank/organisation took the initial step , inter alia , reasonably to satisfy itself that adequate insurance arrangements had been made by the mortgagor . |
| 11 | A state may declare that , provided there is reciprocity , it will make no charge for the services necessary for executing letters rogatory or will accept in complete satisfaction of the cost of such services either the fixed amount mentioned above or some other amount . |
| 12 | He began to realize from the nature of these sites how the leys could have been constructed . |
| 13 | Of these divisions only the gastropods and cephalopods contain predators and in terms of the home aquarium we only really need to consider gastropods as octopi and squid are so seldom offered on the hobbyist market . |
| 14 | In the electromagnetic case the difficulty is resolved by using Maxwell 's equations , which are consistent with SR ; Coulomb 's law is then seen to be the limiting form of one of these equations when the charges are slowly moving ( quasi-static limit ) . |
| 15 | This is very important if a UK business is to ensure that it is not charged VAT at the standard rate on the supply of these goods where the customer 's VAT number subsequently proves to be false or otherwise incorrect . |
| 16 | Again the Board was persuaded by the arguments of large minorities that it should require the capitalisation of these costs when the specified criteria are met . |
| 17 | In the creation of some , and the perpetuation of most , of these mevleviyets where the reason for raising the status of the kadilik is not immediately apparent one can perhaps see the operation of a factor which greatly influenced the elaboration of the learned hierarchy , namely the sheer numbers of those seeking posts . |
| 18 | Cos it 's one of these words where the plural does n't end in an s . |
| 19 | The symbol of the sun is also represented on the walls of these caves where the Wandjina appear . |
| 20 | When we add to this in turn the effect of nearly half of all women working ‘ part-time ’ , then the average income of all households where the married woman was working was only about 40 per cent higher than where the married woman was not working . |
| 21 | Of all abilities only the capacity to conceptualize has been found to correlate with the performance of managers . |
| 22 | The Chernobyl visit was just one of many reasons why the inquiry was still running when even the conscientious Barnes decided to take a summer break . |
| 23 | Past more fields where the work is back-breaking and by hand , past the station at Lesozavad and to the hamlet of Barashevo . |
| 24 | It had been one of those mornings when the early sun striking the coloured glass of the landing window had tinted the dark hall with amber light . |
| 25 | As a matter of fact , it was one of those cases where the nursing staff had an unreasonable wish for him to live for ever — he was a very charming man . |
| 26 | Of course we are speaking of those cases where the state is not put to an action if the citizen refuses to pay . |
| 27 | Of course we are speaking of those cases where the state is not put to an action if the citizen refuses to pay . |
| 28 | Of course we are speaking of those cases where the state is not put to an action if the citizen refuses to pay . |
| 29 | They also observed that for some of those youngsters subsequently the change of direction brought only short-lived renaissance of interest and motivation before the same boredom and lack of achievement returned . |
| 30 | She had been watching television , another of those comedies where the audience laughs immoderately at thin jokes . |