Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pending discovery and/or the administration of interrogatories the best particulars the plaintiff is able to give of such transactions is that the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in each and every transaction of which the following payments and each of them represent the proceeds of such transactions namely : … |
| 2 | The two had barely exchanged a word in the last twenty minutes except for a short and inconclusive argument as to whether a particularly powerful explosion had been the oil bond store or the workshop of Kerible the Enchanter . |
| 3 | Nor is the distortion of fact or the deification of rumour the only problem ; there is also the considerable problem of the temporal nature of commenting on climbing style . |
| 4 | The need for the recommendation of a high-ranking scholar provided a control on the quality of the intake-as long , of course , as the scholar were reasonably honest-while the quantity could be controlled by altering a number of factors , for example , the period at which the regular investiture took place , the number of ceremonial occasions on which special investitures might occur or the number of students the holder of any given office might invest as Interesting , though extremely belated , attempts to control both the quality and the quantity of are represented by two decrees of the year 1715 , by which time the system had very nearly completely broken down . |
| 5 | ‘ You can buy a copy of an album or a video in Moscow the day after it is released in the West , ’ says Grigoriev . |
| 6 | Bearing in mind that soil itself is a chemical or a mixture of chemicals the basics of cleaning in this context are identical to those of basic reaction chemistry typified by the following equation : |
| 7 | None of the YCs had realized that the decision to rehouse the families was being taken by the Conservative council . |
| 8 | Or are you saying that the level of provision the County Council propose for employment is excessive bearing in mind that they do not propose to cater for one hundred percent migration ? |
| 9 | I 'm sure you know that the Bank of England the Bank of England have made a very strong point that on balance there should be more non-executive directors than executive directors in the company and , er it is felt very strongly that to get a good mix of non-executive directors really does protect the shareholders ' interests and , er I think we 're very much following the lead , er , of the Bank of , of England , erm , in this particular respect . |
| 10 | ‘ If he finds that the task of ruling the Khanate is a challenge — ’ he started . |
| 11 | Perhaps the very first thing you will discover in acquiring a knowledge of actual police work , though it is in fact obvious , is that the sort of murders the police deal with are very different from the sort of murders that the detectives of detective stories dealt with . |
| 12 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 13 | Additional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 14 | Aditional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 15 | Little can be made of this , although the biographer of Edward the Confessor speaks of Danes preparing to rebel against Cnut early in his reign , and Henry of Huntingdon thought that an English and Danish attack on the Wandali ( the Wends , the Slav peoples on the southern shores of the Baltic ) occurred in its third year . |
| 16 | Thus , although the geodesic with approaches the ‘ fold singularity ’ apparently at a finite distance from the curvature singularity in region IV , an arbitrarily close geodesic that is initially parallel to it in region II diverges from it and crosses into region IV before it reaches the hypersurface . |
| 17 | Spraying commences in May and continues right up until the harvest , although the number of times the vines are sprayed and the types of spray used will depend on the local conditions of pests and disease . |
| 18 | This means , for example , that a feature on Mercury the size of Sri Lanka would be a featureless blur . |
| 19 | But by the mid-1980s , after more than a decade of discussion the G-77 had been unable to get the industrialised countries to agree to substitute the mandatory ‘ shall ’ for the advisory ‘ should ’ in the draft Code ( Zacher and Finlayson , 1988 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 20 | From that revelatory moment when the box of white paper is opened until the moment of exposure the exchange of light onto receptive surface has begun . |
| 21 | From this period until the reign of Constantine the emperor and his mature male subjects were almost invariably bearded . |
| 22 | I decided that the artwork would be painted in pieces ; the backgrounds on a single sheet and the rest in sections the same size with the artwork for close up details painted twice up for reduction . |
| 23 | In this there is a kind of truth ( for Tolkien was kind-hearted about things like the ‘ evacuation ’ of Minas Tirith and the survival of Bill the pony ) , but also an evident falsehood . |
| 24 | The overseas staff found the outpouring of resentment against the whites and the sense of disadvantage the Africans expressed hard to handle . |
| 25 | ‘ Between the top of Skiddaw and the Lake of Bassenthwaite the numerous narrow openings are happily described by Housman … ‘ on looking down the profound precipice in almost any direction the eye recoils with horror . |
| 26 | Grimma told him about events in the quarry — the fight with the humans , and the stealing of Jekub the earth-mover to escape . |
| 27 | In the time that had elapsed between the date of plea and the date of sentence the overseers of the parish had changed . |
| 28 | Emergency generators were distributed with water supplies and the pumping of sewerage the first priorities . |
| 29 | In terms of regional differences , East Anglia reported the highest proportion of companies that had raised R&D spending , and the southwest of England the lowest . |
| 30 | Could that be , perhaps , the Isla Esperanza and , beyond , the much larger Hanover Island , Isla Jorge Montt and the chunk of rock the Royal Navy ( who found it ) once called Cambridge Island , but which was now the Isla Diego de Almagro ? |