Example sentences of "[that] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is certain is that for countless ages the greatest mountain range on earth will continue to form an impenetrable barrier to the terrestrial animals that live north and south of it . |
| 2 | A significant number were aimed at positive prevention and these included altering the time allowed for lesson changeover to reduce crowd chaos , a decision to involve all staff in corridor supervision , a move to set up mutual support pairs amongst staff and the creation of a rewards system following the realization that for non-academic pupils the school offered little or no incentives . |
| 3 | Carrow claims that for normal children the test scores increase with age and that it differentiates individuals with known disorders , including deaf children and those with articulation difficulties , from ordinary , non-handicapped children . |
| 4 | The dominance of the corporate publishing sector is such that for many writers the most available social relations are those of employment in this sense , with the ideas for books coming from new professional intermediaries ( publishers ' editors ) within the market structure , and authors being employed to execute them . |
| 5 | Consideration of the effects of stress in the workplace has meant that for many employers the workaholic has become bad news . |
| 6 | In innumerable works one finds that for many movements the last bar of one movement changes to the time signature of the following movement . |
| 7 | The early response has not been enthusiastic , though aides insisted yesterday that for many households the new tax bills would amount to only a few dollars a month . |
| 8 | Welcoming the company 's plans , DBRW chairman Glyn Davies said that for many years the Development Board had sought to help the company to re-locate and expand while staying in Llanfyllin . |
| 9 | Notice that for small differences the expression [ ] is approximately equal to the formula which appears in the F statistic . |
| 10 | What is clear is that for different reasons the Nordic states were disinclined to pursue closer economic integration wholeheartedly , or were at least following their customary practice of slow and cautious deliberation to try to pinpoint and resolve in advance any possible difficulties . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that small companies promise substantially faster growth , the survey revealed that for large companies the median price to earnings ratio was a heady 20.6 , compared with 15.4 for smaller firms . |
| 12 | It can be shown that for large samples the statistic , called the likelihood ratio test statistic , is distributed as a chi-square variate with g degrees of freedom where , as before , g is the number of restrictions and ‘ log ’ stands for natural logarithm . |
| 13 | Fig 62 showed the variables in foot placement and indicated that for smaller boards the foot is placed slightly further forwards . |
| 14 | This meant that for some countries the CET was lower than national tariffs . |
| 15 | The problem is that for some letters the majority of features which occur in upper and lowercase forms ( like E and e ) are different . |
| 16 | But as two months had already elapsed since the end of the previous contracts , this would mean that for some weeks the players would be getting more than the permitted £4 a week maximum . |
| 17 | It could mean that for some patients the disease can be held at bay . |
| 18 | Sir Bartle Frere , the Governor of Bombay in the 1860s and a great enthusiast for railways , pointed out to his London masters that for these reasons the Indian station required three or four times more space than its British counterpart . |
| 19 | Terry Castle suggests that for these poets the mirror was at once an emblem of the psyche and the symbol of an alternative world : ‘ … the mirror image both distilled a longing for purity and expressed a desire for escape … ’ |
| 20 | The only concession to scale is that for obvious reasons the lift buttons are situated outside the cars ! |
| 21 | Although I recognise that for obvious reasons the Secretary of State will not want to be locked or painted into a figure of 512 as the maximum , which is what it would be , will he tell the House whether , in the light of last week 's discussions with President Yeltsin and the changes that have taken place since Christmas , the Government are now considering the minimum deterrent to be somewhat lower than they had previously considered it necessary to be ? |
| 22 | Hawton and Blackstock ( 1976 ) found that during these visits the doctors had , in most cases , detected symptoms of psychological distress , including anxiety and depression , and were also aware that the patients were contending with social and relationship difficulties . |
| 23 | On the other hand , he considered that through parliamentary victories the working class was capable of conquering the rest of the state . |
| 24 | Mr Butler told the hearing at Berwick-upon-Tweed that after two rehearsals the main jump went ahead over Brunton Airfield , Northumberland . |
| 25 | They therefore tend to assume that after two years the firm ( if it is not a supernormal growth firm ) simply grows in line with GDP , on the grounds that , in the long run , the share of dividends or earnings in GDP does not trend in any significant way . |
| 26 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 27 | In 1991 , the brothers are believed to have inherited an estimated £500,000 when a Jersey court ruled that after three years the missing couple could be presumed dead . |
| 28 | There are those who feel that after twenty years the general public should be familiar enough with the rules governing child care and child protection , but perhaps the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Children 's Hearing system in 1991 was an opportune time to go back to its roots , to take a fresh look at how it works , and whether changes in society over twenty years point to the need for changes in the Scottish system of juvenile justice . |
| 29 | Does the Secretary of State realise that we were promised 20 years ago that after 20 years the toll would be abolished ? |
| 30 | What the lectures at the Royal Institution seem to indicate is that despite these changes the age of ‘ two cultures ’ was still some way off ; at the elite level , those interested in the advance of science also wanted to hear about other cultural activity . |