Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if we could lie down for twenty minutes sometime in the afternoon or early evening , then we would lengthen the spine to support us more efficiently for the latter part of the day . |
| 2 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 3 | Having propped up the Ottoman empire for the latter part of the nineteenth century , Britain and France now set about dismantling it . |
| 4 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
| 5 | And besides , there was soon a property wagon and two more sleeping wagons for the many members of the wealthy company . |
| 6 | A great deal of traffic was involved in moving ammunition and bombs for the many airfields in the vicinity . |
| 7 | It was suggested that a flour-mill for the employment of the paupers should be created , the flour produced to be used for making the bread for the paupers in the workhouse , as well as for the several parishes in the union . |
| 8 | While profits jumped to £2.6m in the annual results announced in March , interims in August posted £1.1m for the half year to the end of June . |
| 9 | The star of the show was undoubtedly Sue Edwards from Middlesex , who rode nine tests on three different horses , and was not only the winner of the Preliminary and Elementary trophies with two different horses , but also won the 1991/92 points trophy for the most wins during the whole season . |
| 10 | The Phostrogen prize for the most points in the show was shared between Mr. W. Howarth and Mrs. J. Lee . |
| 11 | Even within these areas , there is smaller-scale , shorter-distance commuting for the few jobs in the larger villages and the smaller towns . |
| 12 | For the few months before the Gulf crisis , the political world dissolved and what existed had no clear shape ; its familiar forms — the nations and empires — had no clear trajectory . |
| 13 | We found that for the same journey in the same conditions , our average mpg shot up to 52 . |
| 14 | Where it is known that the debtor has more than one residential or business address , personal calls should be made at all addresses ; ( b ) should the creditor fail to effect service , a first class prepaid letter should be written to the debtor referring to the call(s) , the purpose of the same and the failure to meet with the debtor , adding that a further call will be made for the same purpose on the day of 19 at hours at ( place ) . |
| 15 | The carrier would have agreed to carry them for the same price at the carrier 's risk . |
| 16 | The Charter Unit 's second-class sets , or more correctly standard class sets as BR now prefers to describe them , also underwent refurbishment during the tail end of the 1980s with twenty-four of the Mk 1 TSOs being smartened up and fitted for air braking during 1988 , and a further twelve earmarked for the same treatment during the early part of 1990 . |
| 17 | If however the desired labour supply exceeds that demanded , L D , the consumer is rationed on this market and utility is maximized subject to the constraint L s = L D ( the process of rationing is assumed to be such that each worker is employed for the same fraction of the desired L s ) . |
| 18 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 19 | They now compete , not for comparable resources ( ‘ separate but equal ’ as the phrase went ) but for the same resources in the same labour or housing or educational or other markets . |
| 20 | On informal testing each child ignored a toy presented in the half-field contralateral to the removed hemisphere , but promptly reached for the same toy in the ipsilateral half-field . |
| 21 | The overall picture which has emerged from the analyses is of more or less consistent use of the same marble quarry for the same elements of the monument , but that a variety of marble types were selected for different purposes . |
| 22 | ‘ But clearly , although they are not producing computers for the same sector of the market place , they are both manufacturing plants . ’ |
| 23 | Planting in 1988 came within 15 per cent of the national target , but has fallen now to one-third of that level for the same cost to the taxpayer as in 1988 . |
| 24 | It is quite obvious that if all of you are going for the same niche in the marketplace , as is happening increasingly at present , then it will be a highly competitive situation where you will have to rely even more than usual on the superiority of your own skills or technology to bring you through . |
| 25 | By billing different companies for the same visit to the same city , and padding each bill , Roscoe managed to clear $150,000 in income last year , $100,000 the year before . |
| 26 | Karl-Heinz Kretschmer resigned as the ( CDU ) deputy Minister President of Brandenburg following accusations that he too had been involved with the Stasi , and two PDS deputies in the Saxony-Anhalt parliament , Gunter Scholz and Rolf Funda , resigned their seats for the same reason on the recommendation of the party . |
| 27 | Indeed , he had , in fact , smashed one of their violins when he lost his temper for the same reason in the previous year . |
| 28 | ( For the same effect on the earlier models , it 's the RIGHT hand light that has to be on . ) |
| 29 | Thus the more nearly perfect a market is , the stronger is the tendency for the same price to be paid for the same thing at the same time in all parts of the market : but of course if the market is large , allowance must be made for the expense of delivering the goods to different purchasers ; each of whom must be supposed to pay in addition to the market price a special charge on account of delivery . |
| 30 | Telephone or client bidding secured the majority : ‘ The Princess of Salm with her son ’ sold for £29,000 ( $45,820 ) , est. £30–45,000 ; ‘ Monsieur de Cormainville sold for £42,000 ( $65,436 ) , est. £25–35,000 ; ‘ The Prince of Saxe-Gotha with his Tutor ’ sold for £20,000 ( $31,600 ) , est. £25–35,000 ) ; ‘ Baron de Talleyrand ’ sold for the same amount against the estimate of £20–30,000 ; ‘ Baron de Bombelles ’ sold for £18,000 ( $28,044 ) , est. £20–25,000 ; ‘ The Duke of York on a quay ’ sold for £17,000 ( $26,486 ) , estimated £20–30,000 ; and ‘ Colonel Morrison ’ sold for £13,000 ( $20,254 ) , est. £15–25,000 . |