Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the formulation of a dualistic class division , Laclau and Mouffe have argued persuasively , is itself nothing less than a nostalgic attempt to recreate for the nineteenth century the imagined simplicity of the conditions of the aristocracy/bourgeoisie conflict of the French Revolution which had originally inspired Hegel . |
| 2 | For research purposes , the laboratory was just beginning to be separated from the kitchen ; but for the nineteenth century the centres were the laboratory and the museum . |
| 3 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 4 | For the second time the French set out to catch the English . |
| 5 | Very shortly the Court of Appeal is to hear for the second time the cases of James Robinson , Michael Hickey and Vincent Hickey , found guilty in November 1979 of the murder in 1978 of Carl Bridgewater , the newspaper boy , in Staffordshire . |
| 6 | On the hills above the town , amongst cool , dark pines , is Albuhera Barracks , the present station for the 1st Battalion the Royal Scots . |
| 7 | For the first race the trainer friend advised us to back a horse called , I think , Super Duper . |
| 8 | ( a ) For the first year the Company will pay the Corporation £2,532 14s. 10½d. and sums calculated by the Borough Surveyor in subsequent years ( with certain safeguards ) . |
| 9 | For the first category the two main concerns are that the software will accept input from whatever word processor you are currently using and that the page printer will support your required fonts . |
| 10 | When , in the first Test at Trent Bridge , Gooch and Broad put on 125 for the first wicket the smiles were widening all the time ; when the last wicket fell with just 245 on the board we knew where we really were . |
| 11 | For the first week the FILMS FROM THE URBAN JUNGLE series echoes the city themes of the festival , from the Cities and Media conference to the presentation of Tavernier films which celebrate the city of Lyon , Tavernier 's birthplace , and Birmingham 's twin town . |
| 12 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 13 | The Politburo issued a statement regretting for the first time the mass exodus to the West . |
| 14 | But now for the first time the diocese was being consulted — informally , quietly , but systematically . |
| 15 | For the first time the house seemed a frail defence against all that beat around it . |
| 16 | Mountbatten saw Charles for what he was and liked what he saw , and for the first time the growing Prince was given some real sense of his own worth . |
| 17 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 18 | Jordanova suggests that the search to define femininity by recourse to anatomy was a search for aesthetic and moral ideals at the same time ; she says of these models , ‘ The figures of recumbent women seem to convey for the first time the sexual potential of medical anatomy . ’ |
| 19 | For the first time the old man stopped and folded his hands on the end of the axe-handle . |
| 20 | This was the initial running of the world 's oldest Classic under commercial sponsorship , and for the first time the winner 's prize money topped £100,000 . |
| 21 | For the first time Hitler was not able to get out from under the responsibility ; for the first time the critical rumours are aimed straight at him . |
| 22 | For the first time the race sees a husband and wife pairing in Yvonne and Barry Holloway from Lymington in Hampshire . |
| 23 | Furthermore , for the first time the planned and negotiated sharing of a child 's care , through local authority provision of ‘ accommodation ’ is reframed as a form of support . |
| 24 | In conclusion , this book has brought together for the first time the work of all the main researchers and provides a motivating set of reviews for any interested scientist . |
| 25 | For the first time the significance of lone pairs of electrons , in determining the overall shape of molecules was recognised . |
| 26 | For the first time the man on Gerrard 's other side spoke , and his voice was smooth and the accent very carefully cultured . |
| 27 | The United States accepted for the first time the phrase ‘ legitimate rights of the Palestinian people ’ and called for the participation of the ‘ Palestinian people ’ , a major concession to the Soviet Union , in return for Soviet retraction of its previous insistence on the participation of the PLO , the establishment of an independent Palestinian state , and the total withdrawal of Israeli forces to the 1949 Armistice Line . |
| 28 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 29 | In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition . |
| 30 | For the first time the fictional works were complemented by a series of important essays : ‘ The Dorsetshire labourer ’ ( 1883 ) , ‘ The profitable reading of fiction ’ ( 1888 ) , ‘ Candour in English fiction ’ ( 1890 ) , ‘ The science of fiction ’ ( 1891 ) . |