Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 Customary by the mid-thirteenth century , largely due to Innocent 's introduction of such a scheme , such taxes , however , did not bring money into the papal coffers but were granted to the leaders of the crusades , through there was a widespread belief that money collected for the Crusade by Philip the notary was doing exactly that , and in 1202 Innocent ordered an investigation .
2 Thieves who stole for ransom usually had some other use for the animal in case the owner was unwilling to pay for the recovery of his property .
3 For the majority of people the response to an odour is instantaneous , disappearing immediately the odorant is removed .
4 ( 3 ) Where there is an available market for the goods in question the measure of damages is prima facie to be ascertained by the difference between the contract price and market or current price at the time or times when the goods ought to have been accepted , or ( if no time was fixed for acceptance ) at the time of the refusal to accept . ’
5 ( 3 ) Where there is an available market for the goods in question the measure of damages is prima facie to be ascertained by the difference between the contract price and market or current price of the goods at the time or times when they ought to have been delivered , or ( if no time was fixed ) at the time of the refusal to deliver . ’
6 She hated John , and when Herod rashly promised Herodias ' daughter anything she wanted , Herodias made her daughter ask for the head of John the Baptist .
7 Hard to feel sorry for the laird , who would have watched the sweating workers from his window , hands in pockets , listening for the doorbell in case the king changed his mind and dropped in for a scone .
8 For the purpose of discussion the impact of agriculture on environment will initially be examined in relation to three distinct regions that exemplify developing world environments , namely arid and semi-arid regions , humid rainforest regions and mountain areas .
9 In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility .
10 For the purpose of comparison the three different types of representation for the utterance The order goes in by late November are shown below :
11 For the purpose of upkeep the Wall was built approximately three metres east of the true border , creating a strip of land called the Untebaugebiet .
12 For the whole of Scotland the official percentage of married women in employment was only 4.1 per cent , compared to 9.6 per cent in Great Britain as a whole .
13 It was then that they scooped out for the storage of goods the extensive vaults and cellaring that still run beneath the old town today .
14 In evolving the final arrangement of elements for The Wealth of Nations the artist began with a series of drawings and models set in relations to the building .
15 Furthermore , by the doctrine of vicarious liability , if Y is employed by X , X will be vicariously liable for the actions of Y. The essence of occupancy therefore is ‘ occupational control ’ .
16 The American tradition of the fine photographic print may have been an irresistible provocation — but there were plenty of precedents available for the kind of work the Starn Twins wanted to do ( notably the expansively scored and painted photographic base used by Anselm Kiefer ; Julian Schnabel 's broken plates ) .
17 To return to this country , I am advising on a draft Bill for the protection of antiquities the Society of Antiquaries , the Council for British Archaeology and the museum profession are behind it .
18 So there was intermarriage with natives , something also implied by Pindar ( Pythian ix ) , who describes how Telesikrates ' ancestors competed for the daughter of Antaios the Libyan giant ( and cp .
19 By this time Mozart had been commissioned to write the first opera for the carnival in Milan the following year .
20 Other works by Rubens to be offered include three modelli for the life on Constantine the Great tapestry cycle ( around £1 million ; $1.5 million ) and an oil sketch of the ‘ Holy Family visited by Sts Elizabeth and Zacharias and the Infant St John the Baptist ’ ( est. £400,000–600,000 ; $612,000–918,000 ) .
21 Table 26 shows that in 1991 injuries to elderly people accounted for 50.3% of all bus passenger injuries whereas for the rest of Scotland the figure was 43.4% .
22 In the contest for the governorship of Tokyo the LDP switched its support from the 80-year-old incumbent governor Shunichi Suzuki , to Hisanori Isomura , the candidate supported by the national leadership of the opposition Komeito ( Clean Government Party ) and Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP ) .
23 But for the donations of Louis the Pious in 817 and of Otto I in 962 we ave texts , the Ludovicianum and the Ottonianum , which have been accepted as genuine .
24 Popular permissiveness was reflected in jury verdicts , and the repeal of obscenity laws in several European countries made it impossible for the authorities to police the incoming tide of eroticism .
25 After what seemed ages , Dustin thought he might be willing to co-star in John and Mary if only in gratitude for the bit of play-doctoring the two visitors had done .
26 The Detachment Commander , a Captain and Ammunition Technical Officer ( ATO ) in the Royal Ordnance Corps , is busy writing up reports for the couple of incidents the team has attended during the preceding few days .
27 For the experiment on thrushes the reference is Smith ( 1974a , b ) , and the subject of search paths is discussed more generally by Pyke , et al.
28 As part of their preparations for the semi-final against Dublin the Derry squad spent the week-end prior to the game at the Slieve Russell Hotel , Ballyconnell and travelled into neighbouring Fermanagh for a practice match .
29 When power was increased he was concerned for the skipper on board the yacht , who did not answer his radio , and indeed the safety of the yacht itself .
30 It was to satisfy a roving disposition and an idle curiosity rather than any deep ideal that Rudolf Rassendyll , man-about-town , decided on impulse while travelling in France to visit Strelsau for the coronation of Rudolf the Fifth .
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