Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the demolition parties the days of scheming and planning were over : now they needed steady nerves and physical strength . |
| 2 | For the intelligence agencies a dilemma emerges . |
| 3 | For the snail genes the method of leaving is via snail sperms or eggs . |
| 4 | The concourse was packed and he struggled to control his temper as he was jostled and shoved by passengers rushing for the boarding gates the moment their trains were announced over the Tannoy . |
| 5 | During the winter months the room is quite dark at all times because the sun does not reach the west front of the house . |
| 6 | During the winter months the tubers of tropical waterlilies can be stored in damp sand well away from frost and can be brought back into growth the following year — but it does pay to check them at regular intervals . |
| 7 | During the case studies a large number of interviews with local credit union members will be carried out . |
| 8 | The question was , ‘ How can we work together to make our children 's experiences during the nursery years the best they can be ? ’ |
| 9 | The German advance came to a halt , and during the autumn months the French were able to retake all the ground that they had earlier lost . |
| 10 | During the blitz years the brigade also went to Coventry , Birmingham ( twice ) and Portsmouth . |
| 11 | Even the angle of the helmet is defined ; and the order ends with the instruction : ‘ the strap will be worn under the point of the chin , but during the summer months the strap maybe tucked inside the helmet ’ . |
| 12 | Looking back wistfully three decades later , he recalled that during the summer months the Office followed the Law Courts in observing what were called ‘ vacation hours ’ . |
| 13 | We have learnt that when there is protracted sunlight during the summer months the low-level ozone problem is activated and aggravated , causing massive difficulty for those who suffer from respiratory diseases . |
| 14 | During the summer months the evaluation framework will be revised and a new evaluation strategy will be proposed for the use during the next couple of years . |
| 15 | During the baseline examinations the subjects underwent a standardised dental examination . |
| 16 | As the moon orbits the Earth , we see varying amounts of its illuminated face . |
| 17 | This system of transparent , interpenetrating shapes or planes suggests form in shallow depth , and from it the figure re-emerges as the spectator studies the canvas . |
| 18 | As the fire lights the JPT rises and a hum of gradually increasing pitch and volume begins to pervade the area . |
| 19 | The advance and retardation of the pulses can be seen as the pulsar orbits the companion . |
| 20 | To obtain a general impression of differences among the stimuli and between the rating tasks the ten junctions were compared in an analysis of variance . |
| 21 | In all the years that The End magazine was printed in Liverpool , we never received a single letter about ‘ trainers ’ in America , but we did get hundreds about the training shoes the different football crews were wearing . |
| 22 | Flicking through the travel brochures the browser is confronted by an astonishing number of photographs of whales ' flukes . |
| 23 | After its turbid passage through the twin cities the Ankh could have been one of them . |
| 24 | The threat , they say , affects business and the US economy as a whole in two major ways : ‘ through the actual and threatened failure of accounting firms , and through the survival tactics the firms are forced to employ ’ . |
| 25 | Despite its voluntary redundancy programmes , total employment for the year was up about 3,500 people , some 3,050 of whom were gained through the infilling acquisitions the company regularly makes . |
| 26 | As I trudge my way home through the city streets The cats and the houses retreat And a thunder of hooves beats in my mind And I gallop through acres of wheat . |
| 27 | After a short persuit through the city streets the driver tried to dodge traffic at the Barton Gates junction on Eastgate street . |
| 28 | As soon as the sergeant turned off the windscreen wipers a curtain of mist was breathed across the glass . |
| 29 | ‘ He had to pick an England team from what was left after the week-end games a fortnight ago , while I found myself with just two players at Highbury for almost the entire week . |
| 30 | Brunner never accepted Barth 's absolute christocentrism , was sharply critical of the amount of attention that Barth devoted to the Trinity , and saw in the unfolding of the Church Dogmatics a relapse into an excessively objective kind of theology . |