Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who changed back to shorter repayment periods , because in this example they carry the same total credit cost as longer ones , show what must be the widely-held feeling that , regardless of loan period , the lower the total cost of credit the better . |
| 2 | In areas where farmsteads are the normal form of settlement the pattern is very dense on good land , such as at Hanbury in Worcestershire , and less dense in upland areas such as Exmoor and Dartmoor . |
| 3 | The court found that the authority was an emanation of the state and referred to the European Court of Justice the questions of whether the dismissal of the applicant after reaching normal retirement age for a woman constituted discrimination prohibited by Council Directive ( 76/207/EEC ) and whether the applicant could rely on the directive in national courts notwithstanding any inconsistency between it and s. 6(4) of the Act of 1975 . |
| 4 | It gave the European Court of Justice the power to fine governments contravening EC law . |
| 5 | This cumbersome formulation has been dropped in the Vienna Sales Convention , which substitutes as the sole criterion of internationality the fact that the parties carry on business in different States , a formulation adopted in the U N Convention of Agency in the Sale of Goods and the Unidroit Conventions on International Factoring and International Financial Leasing . |
| 6 | In the frail beam of light the longish hair in separated locks gave an appearance of neglect almost greater than that suggested by his crushed trousers and crumpled jacket . |
| 7 | Is it my imagination or does the tranquil state of mind the car encourages contribute to these things ? |
| 8 | Having thought he was hungry , he now realized that actually he needed anything rather than the overflowing plate of cholesterol the canteen at New Scotland Yard had provided with such admirable promptness . |
| 9 | If we look only at the output we may not learn anything , because if everyone is putting in the right amount of effort the system may still work in the same way as the arrow in the drawing does eventually find its way in the right direction . |
| 10 | Within the Labour League of Youth the YCL was able to maintain contact with the membership and the National Advisory Committee , particularly through the influence of Ted Willis and the Advance group . |
| 11 | Like Frank Sutcliffe at Whitby , Louisa lovingly recorded the vanishing way of life the ploughing horses , craftsmen in their dusty workshops , villagers trailing home behind the laden hay wagon , rakes on their shoulders . |
| 12 | Thus in the theoretical study of language the deference previously accorded to analysis and explanation by the informed observer has been questioned in favour of an uncommitted approach to enquiry , without preconception and without privilege , into the ways in which participants negotiate their own conditions for achieving their purposes . |
| 13 | The white and the gold together shone in holy radiance , and even in the stilted emphasis of embroidery the angel was watchful in its fluttering , heaven-touched thread . |
| 14 | Under the old law of larceny the thing had to be carried away ( asportation ) . |
| 15 | The fractional increase of volume fv in this case is and the specific volume of free space , or free volume Now if the coefficient of expansion remains constant throughout the entire range of temperature the fractional free volume fv is just . |
| 16 | So if electrons can move freely in three dimensions , at the absolute zero of temperature the occupied states in k -space form a sphere ( dashed in the Figure ) . |
| 17 | The actual sphere of competence the church had sought to monopolize had been that of sexual morals , temperance , the semi-private sphere of the family , and education . |
| 18 | The average amount of sunshine the vines receive annually is only 1,537 hours ( Bordeaux : 2,07I hours ) spread over 289 days . |
| 19 | According to the required direction of rotation the cation SHIFTX is loaded with the instruction code to either increment register X ( positive rotation ) or decrement ( negative rotation ) . |
| 20 | But the overall winner of Guide the Brush was Tom Metson of Loughborough , Leics , who said ‘ An original painting would mean a boy remembering the B-17s at Ridgewell and now understanding the sacrifices being made for us all in 1942–1945 ’ . |
| 21 | In the real world of politics the distinction between ‘ bias ’ and ‘ commitment ’ is not always clear . |
| 22 | Clear of the encroaching water of the Comer , she collapsed across her salvaged man , and crouching on her knees beside him , turned up to the tight circle of light the wet , white face of Gus Hambro . |
| 23 | He ran a hand through his hair , unable to deal with the sudden wave of emotion the conversation had brought with it . |
| 24 | The ideal example of course the C A P , we 've had reform after reform but nothing happens . |
| 25 | I do not think it can be claimed that they opened up new territory ( writings by Dorothy Heathcote and others in the 1970s were concerned with a level of sophistication in drama teaching which the team seemed not to be able to articulate ) , but in terms of giving some sense of order to the basic functioning of drama the publication deserves to be seen as an important landmark . |
| 26 | For example , in the fastest city of them all — which turned out to be Boston , not New York , which was third after Buffalo — the researchers noted that to get the exact time of day the telephone company requires you to dial N-E-R-V-O-U-S . |
| 27 | But Dewey and the pragmatists , unlike others , drew from the notion of the organic character of life the idea of the inherently social character of knowledge . |
| 28 | His parents believe the intensive programme of treatment the clinic offers may open the door on a new life . |
| 29 | His parents believe the intensive programme of treatment the clinic offers may open the door on a new life . |
| 30 | Work on the index began in July 1983 , and at the present rate of progress the initial data preparation phase should be finished by January 1988 . |