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

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1 In some essays , the style of the language in which the essay is written " catches " characteristics of the material the essay is about .
2 Jean de Grilly 's behaviour towards the house of Béarn had been bad enough in 1284 , but in the eyes of the count the arrogant and arbitrary actions of Eustache de Beaumarchais 's lieutenant in 1292 were even worse .
3 It is built up as it ‘ gathers up from the influences of the environment the demands which that environment makes upon the ego and which the ego can not always rise to … . ’
4 What I want to do today , what I 've been trying to do today is to spend that time looking at certain aspects of the way the business works , the way you work .
5 Applying each question in turn to the words of the statute the court seeks to find the meaning of the words in the statute .
6 Among the peoples of the north the Yakuts were unique in having a way of life based upon cattle and horses which , like their Turkic language , betrayed their origins in the steppes of Mongolia .
7 Such groups can properly be described in terms of free association within a generally accepted cultural diversity , though it must be noted that even here , in many cases , the diversity is established by these initiatives , rather than prepared for them , and that in the cases of particular branches of an art the initiatives often involve significant local conflict .
8 Patrick had been interested to see that all traces of the damage the insurgents had wrought in the Green — the trenches they had dug , the trees they had felled — had vanished , and the only evidence of the 1916 Rising were the bullet holes in the stonework of the hotel where the rebels had fired on the British troops positioned on the roof and in some of the upper rooms .
9 Hence such processing would prefer combinations of the form the cat sat on the mat to cat mat on sat the the .
10 It is difficult to miss the phallic connotations of the weapons the miller seems to make such a show of having about his person : — the diminution in scale to the " " joly poppere " " may already hint at the bawdy belittling the miller is to suffer .
11 Within two months of the decision the West German companies Siemens and BMW had announced investment plans for the site .
12 We will pay £5,000 if you and/or your wife or husband are accidentally injured and within 3 months of the accident the injury is the only cause of
13 We will pay £5,000 if you and/or your wife or husband are accidentally injured and within 3 months of the accident the injury is the only cause of
14 ( ii ) the death of a member has left a recognised body with no member able to exercise voting rights in respect of at least one share in the body provided ( a ) that within three months of the death the recognised body has at least one member able to exercise such voting rights , and ( b ) that until proviso ( a ) has been fulfilled either at least one share in the body is beneficially owned by a solicitor or a recognised body or the only personal representative in respect of at least one share in the body is a solicitor or a recognised body .
15 ‘ In order to be made liable as principal for the acts of an agent the principal must at least consent to or adopt his appointment .
16 In the teeth of a recession the reworked Labour Party and the reworked Mr Kinnock are level-pegging with the Tories .
17 In the accounts of a business the principal repayment would merely be a transfer of funds within the balance sheet from the owners to the creditors .
18 But in the accounts of the business the distinction is not made .
19 In certain states of the USA the possession of small quantities of marijuana is not a criminal offence , although it is in Britain .
20 Exercise 9–1 Calculate the formula corresponding to ( 9–11 ) when endowments are correlated , and examine for likely values of the parameters the effect of the redistributive tax .
21 As well as publicizing the activities of the Library the Friends contribute money towards purchases over and above those which can be made from the College funds .
22 For n moles of a gas the equation is
23 In the ateliers of the palace the artists Govardhan , Bichitr and Abul Hasan were illuminating the finest of the great Mughal manuscript books ; in Agra , the gleaming white dome of the Taj Mahal was being raised on its plinth above the River Jumna .
24 In this , of the great poet-critics of the past the one he most nearly resembles is Dryden , whose criticism virtually always comes before us as the preface to a volume of original imaginative writing — including translations which , in this too like Pound , Dryden considers no less ‘ original ’ than poems he has made up for himself .
25 Was/were the originator(s) of the ideas the moving force(s) behind the implementation of the change(s) ?
26 If you have difficulty in interpreting this fragment it is probably partly because you are not sure of the referents of the expression the two holes and the finger stop .
27 Whether the men had truly neglected their duties is unknown , though in view of the social norms of the period the drinking must have been heavy indeed to have been called ‘ excessive ’ , but employment in government service , even when obtained , was never easy to retain , and the chance of doing so was greatly enhanced by a wise choice of political friends .
28 They need to distinguish between the rules of the grammar the native speaker operates and the conventions of written language that pupils have to learn both to interpret and observe .
29 Depending on the rules of the language the stress on a word may disappear completely , as in " The Student body is very active " , where " body " has lost the stress it would have in " My body is aching all over " .
30 As mentioned in chapter 2 , we are indebted to the Egyptians for our present division of the day into twenty-four hours , although the Egyptian hours were not of equal length , since at all times of the year the periods of daylight and darkness were each divided into twelve hours .
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