Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were invited into the classrooms to take part in some of the activities the pupils had been engaged in during the past term . |
| 2 | She will not , indeed can not , make any form of assessment but will , in discussion with the parent , describe the activities the child enjoys and his responses to playgroup life in a relaxed , familiar and friendly atmosphere . |
| 3 | Below the continents the crust is much thicker , averaging about 35 km but reaching up to 70km beneath some mountain ranges . |
| 4 | In Persian uses of Arabic script , for instance , words are distinguished from each other by the forms the letter takes at the beginning , middle or end of a word but there are no particular conventions for indicating where a sentence begins and ends . |
| 5 | She was silently amused at the forms the approaches took : the clumsy grope from Bill Muggeridge ; the galumphing puppyishness of Corbett Farraday ; the appraising eye of Tom Tedder ( for either loyalty to Miss Gilberd , or lethargy , prevented anything more tangible ) . |
| 6 | On the other , you have to use a word processor or text editor to change the layout of any of the forms the package can produce , and can only use one font in any one document ( which is hardly in the spirit of Windows ) . |
| 7 | I 'll explain to you about the course , and the exams the rest of it . |
| 8 | We do the exams the week before , er before . |
| 9 | ‘ Something like 30 per cent of the contracts the MoD is prepared to let are now operated by contract caterers , and those include facilities management as well as pure catering . |
| 10 | The report challenges many of the professional verities and calls into question many of the attitudes the profession has struck in recent years . |
| 11 | Shakespeare 's drama is celebrated for its poetry , a compliment that on the surface suggests ideologically neutral approval of its language , but which also belies suppositions about the attitudes the plays ' language articulates . |
| 12 | It was all very well for countries where uniforms were fashionable — as they certainly were not in Britain and the United States — to encourage among the labourers the soldierly virtues , not the least of which was to be poorly paid . |
| 13 | For a more detailed acquaintance with the various modifications of the Wing-veins the works by Comstock ( 1918 ) and Seguy ( 1959 ) should be consulted . |
| 14 | From the mid-1970s the slow-down in economic growth and rising inflation sapped the confidence of policy-makers in demand management . |
| 15 | Since the mid-1970s the proportion of stock held by non financial companies has risen partly because of the constraints placed on stockholding by banks and financial institutions . |
| 16 | By the mid-1970s the purity of Gardiner 's reorganization of the criminal courts was jeopardized by the Crown Courts becoming overburdened with large numbers of relatively trivial offences . |
| 17 | After a decline in interest in the mid-1970s the series was suspended in 1975 while a new formula was developed . |
| 18 | In the mid-1970s the CDP estimated total employment here to be some 1600 . |
| 19 | Since the mid-1970s the recessionary shake-out in manufacturing has led to the externalization of various corporate services , previously provided ‘ in-house ’ . |
| 20 | By the mid-1970s the general policy of winning the confidence of the farming organizations and working on the basis of persuasion and advice was being increasingly questioned . |
| 21 | By the mid-1970s the ‘ bulge ’ had nearly worked its way through the system , and this , together with disillusion with innovation in education , brought to an end the role of the education service as an expenditure growth-leader among the public services . |
| 22 | In the period from 1960 to the mid-1970s the purchasing power available to the NHS rose by 4 per cent per annum on average . |
| 23 | By the mid-1970s the conflict between the army , the Bengali settlers and the tribespeople was under way . |
| 24 | From the mid-1970s the Committee and its officers were engaged in a process of sponsoring debate and planning , including through such conferences as one on school experience and the assessment of practical teaching , held in York in October 1976 — a pioneer conference from which emerged a CNAA-funded research project which reported three years later . |
| 25 | By the mid-1970s the CNAA and its institutions were making a major contribution to legal education : a survey in 1976/77 showed that there were then thirty-two university law schools and twenty-two polytechnics and other colleges offering undergraduate law degree courses , the most recent being at the Polytechnics of North East London and Preston in 1975 , and the Polytechnic of Wales in 1977 . |
| 26 | SOME of the longer-serving staff and graduates may remember that in the mid-1970s the University embarked on a major review of its Charter and Statutes , designed to make changes in governance which we thought desirable after ten years of operation . |
| 27 | With a hop , skip and neat somersault under the ropes the crew-cut American cop was in the ring , brandishing his sawn-off rifle at Berzerker , as if to say ‘ go ahead , punk , make my day … ‘ . |
| 28 | Warming-up figures like the infinity or horizontal figure of eight , and straight passes in trail are the introductory manoeuvres which involve least complication and yet teach the flyers the arts of timing and speed control . |
| 29 | To simplify preparation of the accounts the parties may agree it appropriate for the completion date to be at the end of a month . |
| 30 | It does not seem to me to address the problem to say that if the producers produce the programmes the audience will supply the criticism . |