Example sentences of "[that] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There is no doubt that for the fathers the Devil is the Enemy , and on the whole most of them stress this even more than did St Paul himself .
2 But you suspect that for the Nethercotts the most exciting part will be over .
3 Mr Gummer claimed that during the negotiations the powerful American farming lobby had been ‘ all over the hotel ’ .
4 Did you find that through the years the classes got bigger ?
5 It is probable that like the mammals the roots of the great variety of living birds are to be found in the Cretaceous , but fossils , which could document this , are only now slowly coming to light .
6 He pointed out that under the proposals an extra 42 places would be reserved for the disabled in Abbot 's Yard , near High Row and Skinnergate .
7 There is some evidence that from the mid-1950s the average size of firm in manufacturing was growing as the employment share of firms with less than 100 workers fell from 60 to 50 per cent .
8 This implies that within the patches the rate of energy transfer per unit mass increases with wave number , thus complicating the derivation of the Kolmogorov law .
9 I soon learned that in the islands a bungalow meant any house , large or small .
10 It is not necessary to suppose that he acted on his own initiative , although this is implied in the Anonimalle Chronicle ( 11 , pp.158–9 ) : possibly his advisers felt that he might be less at risk than they themselves , and that in the circumstances a policy of temporary conciliation was the best course of action .
11 It 's really incredible that in the circumstances the more serious charge was withdrawn .
12 By summonses dated 16 October , against each plaintiff , the defendants sought a declaration that in the circumstances the English court had no jurisdiction over the defendants in respect of the subject matter of the claim or the relief or remedy sought and an order that the action be dismissed on the grounds that the defendants were domiciled in Scotland for the purposes of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 and that Schedule 4 to the Act provided that the defendants should , subject to exceptions which were not applicable , be sued in the courts of Scotland .
13 SOME of the longer-serving staff and graduates may remember that in the mid-1970s the University embarked on a major review of its Charter and Statutes , designed to make changes in governance which we thought desirable after ten years of operation .
14 They found that in the hybrids the germ cells apparently migrated into the fetal gonads normally , and their early cell divisions proceeded normally .
15 Professor Dowd found it particularly irritating and inconvenient , as did the railway companies and their customers , that in the mid-1860s the continental United States had no fewer than eighty different standards of time .
16 At the outset I should emphasise that in the proceedings the only question raised is one of law , to be answered on the assumption that the assignments were genuine and valid transactions and that there was no arrangement or understanding that an assignee would hold for the assignor any compensation received by him from the fund .
17 When she objected to him sharing the blame with the editor , he brushed her aside and said that without the keys a lot of information would have been kept from him .
18 It almost goes without saying that over the years no single topic in agriculture has succeeded in raising passions more .
19 It is true that over the years a few railway signalmen have been convicted of manslaughter for wrongful acts and omissions leading to fatal train crashes , but there is not the natural resort to the criminal law which is now a feature of road-traffic cases .
20 German influence in East Prussia had been so strong that over the years the southern strip of East Prussia , which was occupied by a large number of ethnic Poles , had become increasingly Germanised .
21 Then I realized that over the years the white wedding dress had become yellow , and the flowers in her hair had died , and the bride inside the dress had grown old .
22 He said that Sabine Jourdain had always worked on the paintings with her maître and that over the years the amount she did varied .
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