Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She will not , indeed can not , make any form of assessment but will , in discussion with the parent , describe the activities the child enjoys and his responses to playgroup life in a relaxed , familiar and friendly atmosphere .
2 They were invited into the classrooms to take part in some of the activities the pupils had been engaged in during the past term .
3 Below the continents the crust is much thicker , averaging about 35 km but reaching up to 70km beneath some mountain ranges .
4 She was silently amused at the forms the approaches took : the clumsy grope from Bill Muggeridge ; the galumphing puppyishness of Corbett Farraday ; the appraising eye of Tom Tedder ( for either loyalty to Miss Gilberd , or lethargy , prevented anything more tangible ) .
5 On the other , you have to use a word processor or text editor to change the layout of any of the forms the package can produce , and can only use one font in any one document ( which is hardly in the spirit of Windows ) .
6 In Persian uses of Arabic script , for instance , words are distinguished from each other by the forms the letter takes at the beginning , middle or end of a word but there are no particular conventions for indicating where a sentence begins and ends .
7 I 'll explain to you about the course , and the exams the rest of it .
8 We do the exams the week before , er before .
9 ‘ Something like 30 per cent of the contracts the MoD is prepared to let are now operated by contract caterers , and those include facilities management as well as pure catering .
10 Shakespeare 's drama is celebrated for its poetry , a compliment that on the surface suggests ideologically neutral approval of its language , but which also belies suppositions about the attitudes the plays ' language articulates .
11 The report challenges many of the professional verities and calls into question many of the attitudes the profession has struck in recent years .
12 For a more detailed acquaintance with the various modifications of the Wing-veins the works by Comstock ( 1918 ) and Seguy ( 1959 ) should be consulted .
13 Since the mid-1970s the proportion of stock held by non financial companies has risen partly because of the constraints placed on stockholding by banks and financial institutions .
14 By the mid-1970s the purity of Gardiner 's reorganization of the criminal courts was jeopardized by the Crown Courts becoming overburdened with large numbers of relatively trivial offences .
15 From the mid-1970s the Committee and its officers were engaged in a process of sponsoring debate and planning , including through such conferences as one on school experience and the assessment of practical teaching , held in York in October 1976 — a pioneer conference from which emerged a CNAA-funded research project which reported three years later .
16 In the mid-1970s the CDP estimated total employment here to be some 1600 .
17 SOME of the longer-serving staff and graduates may remember that in the mid-1970s the University embarked on a major review of its Charter and Statutes , designed to make changes in governance which we thought desirable after ten years of operation .
18 By the mid-1970s the CNAA and its institutions were making a major contribution to legal education : a survey in 1976/77 showed that there were then thirty-two university law schools and twenty-two polytechnics and other colleges offering undergraduate law degree courses , the most recent being at the Polytechnics of North East London and Preston in 1975 , and the Polytechnic of Wales in 1977 .
19 By the mid-1970s the conflict between the army , the Bengali settlers and the tribespeople was under way .
20 After a decline in interest in the mid-1970s the series was suspended in 1975 while a new formula was developed .
21 From the mid-1970s the slow-down in economic growth and rising inflation sapped the confidence of policy-makers in demand management .
22 In the period from 1960 to the mid-1970s the purchasing power available to the NHS rose by 4 per cent per annum on average .
23 Warming-up figures like the infinity or horizontal figure of eight , and straight passes in trail are the introductory manoeuvres which involve least complication and yet teach the flyers the arts of timing and speed control .
24 To simplify preparation of the accounts the parties may agree it appropriate for the completion date to be at the end of a month .
25 It does not seem to me to address the problem to say that if the producers produce the programmes the audience will supply the criticism .
26 What they have not yet recognised is that , if that is normality , if those are the institutions the system requires and that their normal behaviour , then the system is wrong and another is needed , a new economic model which will mark an advance from the sterile confrontation between Capitalism and Socialism , thesis and antithesis , to the synthesis providing a long overdue advance in democratic practice and a means of treating the chronic and disabling debility of the national economy .
27 Although there were some reservations of this kind in both industry and the institutions the balance of opinion was with the sandwich course , and within the Committee for Science and Technology and its boards the commitment to sandwich courses remained strong .
28 Our Mr Phillips helped John Logie Baird rescue the gear , carrying it out through the flames the night Crystal Palace burnt down .
29 She hates even using the meanings the way he helped design them .
30 Does it indicate that the meaning of an idiom can not be inferred from ( or , more precisely , can not be accounted for as a compositional function of ) the meanings the parts carry IN THAT EXPRESSION ?
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