Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The music scene is very male dominated and there is little for the girls ’ he said . |
| 2 | There was little for the crews to do . |
| 3 | Maybe it has been charging too little for the uncertainties involved , but that is another matter . |
| 4 | But 3p off a litre of petrol will do little for the men at Ford who need their jobs . |
| 5 | If the room be too mean , and too little for the books ; if it be too much out of repair ; if the situation be inconvenient ; if the access to it be dishonourable ; is the library keeper to answer for it ? … |
| 6 | If a flagrant oversight like this could occur it says little for the prospects of men of lowly status being correctly recorded . |
| 7 | I could have gone mad , you know , but the tragedy is that during the courses a lot of them and I expect that the best time to learn is when you 're young and you 're more receptive . |
| 8 | Both national survey data and smaller in-depth studies now enable us to document at least some of the financial effects of care-giving on women , although we still know very little about the consequences for women who begin or continue to give care in their own old age , or about the experiences of Black women carers . |
| 9 | Of course , the motivation for playing this game is all the stronger when we have reason to resent the ‘ out group ’ for being more powerful or better resourced than we are , or not subject to the strains , pressures and tensions we face ( of course , because they are an ‘ out group ’ we know little about the problems that they have and we do not ) . |
| 10 | ‘ They are young and inexperienced and they come mostly from cities and know little about the problems of rural people . |
| 11 | London , meditated Dexter — so many people crammed together , yet knowing so little about the others standing only a few feet away . |
| 12 | He says that many students knew very little about the drugs they were taking . |
| 13 | Many people know very little about the benefits that can be claimed by the elderly and those who are looking after them , or the free services to which they are entitled , so they often fail to claim something that is their right . |
| 14 | We know that black elderly people , for example , have very little contact with formal social services but we know far too little about the reasons for this . |
| 15 | As Scherer concludes , ‘ we know far too little about the methods of goal formation and conflict resolution within large organizations . |
| 16 | Labelling theory has revealed something of the genesis of individual theories of the self in society , but we know little about the mechanisms and occasions of large-scale learning of such things . |
| 17 | Before the Romans came on the scene , the Greeks knew little about the Celts . |
| 18 | A top-level report to the Engineering Council said admissions tutors , who vet applicants for places at university , were reluctant to accept design and technology A-level students because they knew little about the subjects themselves . |
| 19 | But we know very little about the animals which bore these scales and although a few articulated remains have been known for several years , they show very little anatomical detail and it is not easy to identify immediate relatives . |
| 20 | Gaily knew very little about the ways of church services , and so he sat halfway towards the back , looking at the coffin and the windows full of pale saints carrying lilies and the dust motes in the groin of the roof . |
| 21 | Yet , given the reality that a number of children were deprived and neglected and the shortage of sympathetic officials , who could in any case have done little about the causes of such deprivation , it is difficult to known what alternative measures were available . |
| 22 | However , they were poorly informed about costs , knew little about the alternatives to private in-patient treatment ( especially the option of NHS care ) and showed little inclination to choose their doctor or hospital . |
| 23 | Having given Moses a glimpse of that through the fingers of his hand , God commands him to cut two tablets of stone to replace those which were broken . |
| 24 | He would say nothing more a– he led her this way and that through the streets , doubling back often , like a fox laying a foil . |
| 25 | Now if you take that through the examples they give , cos they 're quite good ones in there , it will mean a lot . |
| 26 | The fellows went like that off the corners — never asked to move . |
| 27 | The United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association , which is meeting the legal costs of the nuns ' case , was ‘ pleased and surprised ’ with the ruling that the nuns should be paid the full market price of £1.42 each for the birds if they were slaughtered . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's $48.50 each for the stamps . |
| 29 | ‘ Two dinars each for the sardines , five for the guitar . ’ |
| 30 | We bought one each for the girls . |