Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too frightened to brave the front of the hotel , she found the staff stairs to escape by , and she hid behind a peculiarly luscious tropical plant until she saw the porter waiting perplexedly beside the taxi she 'd ordered . |
| 2 | ( ) If it appears to the Secretary of State — ( a ) that the financial affairs of any institution within the higher education sector have been or are being mismanaged ; or ( b ) that , in consequence of matters outwith the control of such an institution , it is likely that the financial position of the institution will be significantly adversely affected , he may , after consulting the Council and the institution , give such directions to the Council about the provision of financial support in respect of the activities carried on by the institution as he considers are necessary or expedient by reason of the mismanagement or , as the case may be , adverse effect on the institution 's financial position . ' . |
| 3 | The rarity of artefacts found during excavations of such farms not only affects the archaeologist 's ability to date the buildings , but also makes it extremely difficult to understand the details of the activities carried out on the farm . |
| 4 | The White Paper goes on to emphasize : ‘ It is the loss of liberty involved in carrying out the terms of the order rather than the activities carried out during the order which is the punishment ’ ( p. 18 , para. 4.4 ) . |
| 5 | The defence relied heavily on the legal precedent of Goodchild in the House of Lords in 1978 , where Lord Diplock ruled that it was not illegal to possess naturally occurring substances even if they contained a controlled drug . |
| 6 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 7 | The response depends critically on the particular experimental method used to provoke it . |
| 8 | Then I remember that time when the tent blew down in the snowstorm and his sleeping bag went in the slush . |
| 9 | I eat the meal inside the tent to get away from the wind , and even there I need an extra jacket . |
| 10 | go down the park come down to the park ? |
| 11 | So he walked in the opposite direction , and he went to the park to get away from the people he might know . |
| 12 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 13 | Surely she would welcome the opportunity to live permanently on the island ? |
| 14 | The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept . |
| 15 | The win earns them the opportunity to go forward to the national championships at Hemel Hempstead in the south of England . |
| 16 | Thus , given liberty and the opportunity to cope realistically with the problem of getting enough to eat the dream process was no longer invoked . |
| 17 | The treaty will involve the transfer of extensive powers from Westminster and we should have the opportunity to vote freely on the issue . |
| 18 | The master took the opportunity to complain further to the Board that on several occasions he had drawn the medical officer 's attention to an inmate , William Sabey , who was at times a danger to others and had attempted to stab the labour master . |
| 19 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |
| 20 | The squad , which will benefit from fitness and training programmes set up by recently appointed British Athletics Olympic National Coach , Frank Dick , is to be coached by former British No. 6 Teresa Catlin , and is seen as being a vehicle that will give youngsters the opportunity to feed through into the Main squad . |
| 21 | Is it too much to expect that the Lord President , on one of his journeys away from the capital , will take the opportunity to apologise unreservedly to the people of this country for his gross error of judgment in imposing the poll tax ? |
| 22 | We now have the opportunity to move out of the hotel and to rent the house of a Professor of Biology , and thus to save on the high cost of the hotel . |
| 23 | I attend the Assembly as a Member of this House and I should like the opportunity to report back to the House , during a proper debate , on what I am doing in the Council of Europe . |
| 24 | Hill , who survived a late collision with Berger 's Ferrari lost a lot of time in the traffic and this gave Gerhard the opportunity to close up in the closing stages . |
| 25 | Students gain valuable practical experience and have the opportunity to learn more about the range of careers available . |
| 26 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 27 | But Kate took the opportunity to slip out past the young man , even though her boss yelled at her to stay . |
| 28 | He dodged away and took the opportunity to walk rapidly in the opposite direction from the one in which Stair 's lot might be , towards Pall Mall , passing the narrow courts and alleys which led from the brilliantly lit main street . |
| 29 | Does my right hon. Friend recall that , at one time , considerable concern was expressed that the Marches , including Herefordshire , would not have the opportunity to contribute fully towards the defence of the realm in terms of reserve activities ? |
| 30 | In addition to this , I think it is appropriate that we also take the opportunity to look ahead to the next three year phase , the developing work load of the adviser and the future development of FWAG in Lothian . |