Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [art] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the men had truly neglected their duties is unknown , though in view of the social norms of the period the drinking must have been heavy indeed to have been called ‘ excessive ’ , but employment in government service , even when obtained , was never easy to retain , and the chance of doing so was greatly enhanced by a wise choice of political friends . |
| 2 | In some areas of the park the vegetation is tinder dry and poses a real risk of a serious moorland fire . |
| 3 | During the first thirty-six years of the century the pope had taxed the English church to the tune of almost £450,000 , of which some £360,000 was earmarked for the king , a sum more than three times the amount produced in that time by direct royal taxation of the clergy . |
| 4 | The sermons were full of puns , conceits and startling antitheses , such as ‘ Compassion is but passion at rebound ’ ; ‘ In some places of the Scripture the lamb may wade , so in others , the elephant may swim ’ ; ‘ Christ is no hell cat ’ ; ‘ This adoption is the fulness of our option . ’ |
| 5 | In the first few days of the revolt the Kurds ' peshmerga guerrillas ousted the army , secret police and Baath Party — the three pillars of Mr Hussein 's regime — from most of Iraqi Kurdistan , including the oil city of Kirkuk . |
| 6 | The European past , with its record of interaction between conflicting civilizations , religions , and cultures , lacked the unity and ‘ all-embracing certainty ’ of the Chinese and so presented historical problems of a kind the latter never encountered . |
| 7 | For free longitudinal vibrations of a beam the resonant frequencies bear simple harmonic relationships to each other , but for transverse vibrations the equation of motion is where x is measured along the cantilever , y is the deflection of a point on it from its equilibrium position , k is the radius of gyration of the cross-section of the beam , E is Young 's modulus and — is the density . |
| 8 | On the high flanks of the ridge the thick canopy of the rain forest gave way to slender pines where clear streams plunged from pool to pool over granite boulders . |
| 9 | To flesh out the red sandstone skeleton — to recreate within the cusped ribs of the cadaver the durbars of Shah Jehan — I again opened Dr Jaffery 's copy of Bernier . |
| 10 | Inevitably , therefore , the English-speaking reader will find that in some sections of the book the emphasis is on France and on how that country , in particular , reacted to the war . |
| 11 | Given Nizan 's view that 1914 represents the moment of closure of this particular historical period , it is not surprising that in the concluding chapters of the novel the historical environment is virtually ignored and an anguished , existential discourse comes to the forefront . |
| 12 | The ministry of labour suspects that about half of the unemployed have indeed been laid off , but other evidence suggests that at least in some parts of the country the proportion is much lower . |
| 13 | The Forest law still applied in some measure , however , to the purlieus , the outlying districts which had been put out of the forest during the fourteenth century — although in some parts of the country the authority of the Forest officers was disputed there . |
| 14 | There were , of course , regional variations in the form of agriculture pursued , and in some parts of the country the economy was more diversified . |
| 15 | In some parts of the country the extra charge amounts to just a few pounds but the average figure in County Durham and Cleveland is £20 . |
| 16 | ‘ It may be that in some parts of the country the trade off will emphasise accountability more and cost less . ’ |
| 17 | In some parts of the world the situation is referred to as the post-modern age or ‘ el postmo ’ , indicating the absence of new values in the wake of the bankruptcy of old ones . |
| 18 | If the system is set up to compare the amounts of each wavelength coming from different parts of the scene the problem of colour constancy is solved immediately . |
| 19 | In different parts of the world the transition from childhood to the adult state may be protracted — as in our country and others of advanced Western culture ; passed through by means of relatively brief " rites of passage " formally enjoined by custom ; or virtually non-existent in those cultures where the boy becomes a man without ceremony or fuss as he becomes able to satisfy and support a wife . |
| 20 | From the early hours of the morning the unfortunate mali could be seen labouring away , pouring with sweat — despite the heat he still insisted in wearing his thick serge uniform — as he constructed a sort of miniature Mount Fuji in the corner of the front lawn . |
| 21 | Following the varying inclinations of the vein the kibble , during winding , thudded from side to side , skidding on the wet planking where the shaft sloped … often shedding part of its load which rattled down to the bottom or lodged dangerously amongst timbering . |
| 22 | In the early years of the century the term prejudice was rarely left unqualified : for instance , psychologists would study ‘ race prejudice ’ or ‘ national prejudice ’ . |
| 23 | Although during the early years of the century the CHA attracted an increasing membership , Leonard was concerned at its failure to fulfil its founding aims . |
| 24 | During the early years of the century the influence of Cézanne had become increasingly pronounced among the progressive young painters who showed at the Salon des Indépendants , and after its creation in 1903 , the Salon d'Automne . |
| 25 | In the early days of the war the Freedmans lost all their boys aged over sixteen to internment . |
| 26 | The chief problems of the NEA the attempt to please every constituency , the absence of firm administrative control , an ossified panel system rife with artists and administrators sitting in judgment on each other 's grants , even if not on their own , and above all , the lack of a clearly articulated policy as to what should be supported remain , and will surely bedevil anyone brought in to run the agency . |
| 27 | This means that in the early stages of a project the components tested will be very rudimentary . |
| 28 | In the early stages of the conflict the nations of the West concerned themselves little with the war . |
| 29 | They stayed in the splendid hotels of the era the Old Winter Palace at Luxor , the Cataract at Aswan . |
| 30 | Over the eight years of the project the reduction in inequality between different socio.economic groups was consequent upon an improvement in scores attained at the bottom end of the distribution and not the levelling down of those at the top . |