Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His employer , Oscar Godolphin , was one of the eleven to whom the flame of Roxborough 's intent had been passed , though of all of them surely none was so perfect a hypocrite as Godolphin , who was both a member of a Society committed to the repression of all magical activity , and the employer ( Godolphin would have said owner ) of a creature summoned by magic in the very year of the tragedy that had brought the Society into being . |
| 2 | The council tax is proving less unpopular : appeals against the valuations of property for the new tax , the best measure of opposition , will fall well short of the 950,000 for which the government had allowed . |
| 3 | We attempt to treat the wives and ex-wives of service men living illegally in some of our properties as sympathetically as we can and that is why the 1,600 to whom the hon. Gentleman referred live in service accommodation . |
| 4 | Arising equally strongly from the findings of the poverty surveys , and out of the labour movement , were criticisms of the principles of 1834 as being inappropriate for the conditions of the 1900s in which the existence of involuntary unemployment was becoming difficult to deny . |
| 5 | Other characteristic species present apart from the three by which the community is named are Populus tremula , Betula pubescens , Sorbus aucuparia , Salix auritalcinerea and Epilobium montanum . |
| 6 | Bregawn 's temperament got the better of him the following season , and on his racecourse appearances he displayed increasing sourness . |
| 7 | Jnandas a poet of medieval India expressed the joy and aspirations of the humble soul who knows that within him is the divine spark , and he is therefore the All for which the festival is planned . |
| 8 | The influence of pressure groups in the political process has waned in the last decade , largely because the Conservative Party , and indeed many electors , took against the relationship between the Labour government and the trade unions in the 1970s in which the unions had seemed to exercise excessive influence over the government . |
| 9 | Yesterday 's close compared with the 1,793.1 at which the FTSE index ended 1988 . |
| 10 | It will be a choice of ends , for example , even if forgotten a moment later , when he chokes back an erupting laugh at a slip by an important man , the choice being between a momentary and a long-term goal , the latter of which the other man could jeopardize . |
| 11 | Following a full day of debate on the Loyal Address and two days on the Second Reading of the Bill , the country is none the wiser about what the Labour party proposes on local government finance , save in one crucial respect : we now know that it is committed to ending all control on local authority expenditure . |
| 12 | It 's the first of what the prison hopes will be many steps forward . |
| 13 | Campbell Park , Milton Keynes , is the venue for the first of what the organisers hope will become an annual British Kite Festival . |
| 14 | But British Telecom Mobile Communications is introducing a transatlantic paging service based on frequency-hopping technology — the first on which the same pager can used in either the UK or the US . |
| 15 | The case , referred under powers to challenge unduly lenient sentences introduced in February , is the first in which the Appeal Court has refused to substitute a stiffer sentence . |
| 16 | I suspect it 's because the 1992 election is the first in which the BBC is following ITN 's lead by using exit polls . |
| 17 | The 1924–25 series was the first in which the captains of each side had their birthdays while playing for their country . |
| 18 | The case was the first review of random testing of federal employees and the first in which the court upheld testing which did not involve workers concerned with public safety . |
| 19 | Assume that at the end of the investor 's time horizon there are two possible end states , the first in which the share price has doubled and the second in which it has halved . |
| 20 | The REDUCTION DIVISION is immediately followed by the second meiotic division at right angles to the first in which the chromosomes form a normal metaphase arrangement and separate their chromatids in the normal mitotic fashion . |
| 21 | The question is really the same by whomsoever the action is brought — whether by a person , a firm , or a company . |
| 22 | The question is really the same by whomsoever the action is brought — whether by a person , a firm , or a company . |
| 23 | Of the two of them the young Job Centre man looked the more hot and worried . |
| 24 | Alone in my cabin , then I got comfortable , put all troublesome thoughts out of my mind , and switched on the vid to one of the best of what the vid expressively calls it Everlasting Serials . |
| 25 | In spite of all the worrying about it the next stage with Edward still took Sally by surprise when it actually happened . |
| 26 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
| 27 | This rough equivalence continued until the 1960s after which the rapid growth in local authority expenditure placed such pressure on the rates — with predictable political controversy — that central government steadily increased its contribution to local finances . |
| 28 | Max Beerbohm 's generation must have been the last to which the delicious syllabub was a familiar childhood treat . |
| 29 | Many supporters , I know , feel uneasy that Proby is returning and are dismayed that we have not seen the last of what the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus called ‘ The Headcase Half Back ’ . |
| 30 | By 1964 , when John Chatham 's pleasingly original example tested here was built , the ‘ big ’ Healey had reached 3000 MkIII designation , with 2012cc in-line six-cylinder BMCC series power ; in early 1965 , the ‘ small ’ Cobra — like John Atkins ' beautifully prepared and much-raced JA11 — had a 289cu ins ( 4.7-litre ) Ford V8 ( in place of the 260 with which the car was launched ) and the original worm-and-sector . |