Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Florida , the Caribbean , Queensland , and South East Asia they may be extremely extensive , and are important not only for the huge variety of life within them crabs , spiders , molluscs — but also for the many creatures that visit them for food ( herons , egrets ) and which breed in the shelter they provide . |
| 2 | As a meeting point for the many cultures that make up modern Spain , Madrid is a bustling city in the middle of the central plain known as the Meseta . |
| 3 | Helen still looked doubtful , then she said tactfully , ‘ Sophie , I think we should leave Ian and Joanna alone for the few minutes that remain , do n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | Indeed , the first moves in this direction occurred in 1986 of course , when as Noble Lords will recall the Metropolitan counties or at least their county councils were abolished and police authorities were created for the same areas as freestanding corporate bodies . |
| 5 | There is , needless to say , no suggestion that the Bank of England are in contempt , and , for the same reasons as have led me to conclude that the injunction is overridden , I should have had no hesitation in varying the injunction if it had been necessary to do so . |
| 6 | ( There is often a degree of integration between these ; this aims for the use of the same key-presses for the same effects and allows the transfer of data between functions . ) |
| 7 | Additionally , in the case of a complete failure to perform to contract at all , the buyer will usually have the right to go elsewhere to a third party for the same goods and to charge the seller for any increase in the price paid to the third party over that payable to the seller . |
| 8 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 9 | Researchers working with this substance set about trying to remove a fertilized ovum from a woman during the few days that elapse between actual conception and the implantation of the cell into the uterus — where it must be to develop into an infant — and then replacing it . |
| 10 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 11 | However , Hall ( 1982a ; 1982b ) hoped that higher-skilled and better-paid jobs would eventually Appear through the same processes that had driven countries such as Hong Kong , South Korea and Singapore from low-grade , low-paid economies into higher , if not always ‘ higher-tech ’ production . |
| 12 | Of the many curves that have been explored by mathematicians , the roulettes are formed by a curve rolling along another , fixed curve and are fundamental to mechanics . |
| 13 | This catholicity of interest is reflected in the scope of the many questions that remain ( Box 4 ) . |
| 14 | Indeed of the many disciplines that have contributed to the growth of modern literary theory , linguistics is almost certainly the most important . |
| 15 | At any one time , therefore , most of the many beliefs that constitute our knowledge of what goes on in the world are beliefs that we do n't know we have . |
| 16 | Of the many factors that contribute to health and wellbeing , the role of social support has come to the fore recently as critical in understanding the relationships between peopleealth and social and material circumstances in which they live . |
| 17 | One of the many tank-traps that lie ahead : senility 's revenge . |
| 18 | At the time , and indeed until much later , I had no knowledge of Mrs Castle 's objections or of the many discussions that had taken place on this subject at government level . |
| 19 | Visit the celebrated pyramids and Sphinx , the Egyptian Museum and some of the many mosques that characterise the region . |
| 20 | On the west side , Ingleborough is a shadowy giant revealing none of the many wonders that attract its legions of pilgrims ; and to the east , green slopes rise with little incident to dark moors forming a distant skyline . |
| 21 | He scooped a handful of marble out of a bannister as if it were plasticine , and briefly enjoyed the traces of the many fingers that had brushed over this patch of cold stone down the years . |
| 22 | I need hardly remind you of the many emergencies that Save The Children has responded to in recent years . |
| 23 | Summer gales were rarely of long duration in our experience , and if it blew really hard we used to snug down in the lee of one of the many anchorages and take to the hills for a change . |
| 24 | Great cars helped to develop great drivers and wealthy Britons Lord Howe and Sir Henry Birkin were two of the many aristocrats that tried their hand at the sport . |
| 25 | However , because of the complexity and interdependence of the many parameters that govern platelet activation and coagulation , few , if any , satisfactory thromboresistant materials have been reported . |
| 26 | The third weakness is a fundamental one : various institutional differences in the operation and segregation of the many sectors that go to make up the financial services industry . |
| 27 | Changes in the ways employment , training and welfare policies operate need to be brought about so as to get rid of the many disincentives that exist for women wishing to return to training or employment . |
| 28 | We never question that feeling , we just go on in our habitual ways until we are stopped short by one of the many illnesses that afflict our civilization today . |
| 29 | He wanted Siward 's army over the centre , and also over the bright , narrow vein of the deepest of the many rivulets that seamed the field , running down to the Forth . |
| 30 | It is built of the same materials and shows the same Moorish features of decoration and construction ( 415 ) . |