Example sentences of "for [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 | For these reasons alone the issue must be dealt with from the outset with as much information as is possible . |
| 9 | For these wells either the section has been buried more deeply in the past than at present or geothermal gradients have been significantly higher in certain parts of the basin . |
| 10 | An offer is a reverse takeover for these purposes where the offeror might as a result need to increase the existing voting equity share capital by more than 100 per cent . |
| 11 | The Council 's permission for many priests to share in a single concelebration was again , initially , limited to a very few occasions , but before the end of the 1960s the absurdity of the former practice had become rather obvious and concelebration was rapidly becoming the norm for all circumstances where the number of priests exceeded the number of community Masses needed for a pastoral purpose . |
| 12 | Indeed , for all cases where the to infinitive evokes " subsequent potentiality " the support is necessarily seen or implied to be situated in time prior to the event . |
| 13 | Shoe-buckles , harness fragments and tunic buttons spread outwards from them for many yards when the gradients become steep , marking places where panting packmen and their contemporaries sought easier paths up the slopes . |
| 14 | For many years now the relationship between the prison staff and the Home Office has been — at its very calmest — one of simmering discontent . |
| 15 | Many elderly people live in their own homes for many years following the death of a husband or a wife . |
| 16 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 17 | New tractor or not , the 1926 Annual General Meeting heard the call yet again for more members otherwise the Club could not carry on . |
| 18 | The problem of limited knowledge is intensified in multibusiness companies for those businesses where the senior managers have not had direct experience . |
| 19 | So for those cases where the " automatic " variant occurs in line A , 31 we would have the parallelism of greater precision . |
| 20 | The law also abolished the principle of primogeniture ( the direct passing on of land to the first-born son ) , save for those cases where the eldest male was prepared to embrace Protestantism . |
| 21 | Three rosettes are the supreme award for those hotels where the food is considered outstanding . |
| 22 | The New York Times 's Vincent Canby wrote : ‘ There is nothing obviously glossy in Midnight Cowboy , but it contains a lot of superior laughter that has the same softening effect , ’ yet he found the central relationship was ‘ as honest and affecting as anything you 're likely to see in a movie , and more than compensates for those moments when the film seems to be exploiting its cheap , gaudy locale as might the director of a sight-seeing bus cruising through West 42nd Street and Greenwich Village ’ . |
| 23 | They thus have some control over the speed with which the AGV moves through their section , and for those sections where the carrier does not move for the full 20 minutes there is the opportunity to pace their work over that span . |
| 24 | I enclose for your interest a copy of Sports Participation in Scotland 1988 which gives overall participation rates , outdoor and indoor , and individual figures for those sports where the sample size was adequate . |
| 25 | Subsequently it increased again , and for several decades now the magnitude has hovered around 2.2 . |
| 26 | The Germans left with their prey , and no one knew if they were going to return , but all through the night and for several days more the orphanage was looted . |
| 27 | For several years now the Yanomami Indians of Brazil have been threatened with extinction . |