Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also emerged that a $400,000 donation , the largest made at the dinner , was from Michael Kojima , a heavily indebted businessman who was being pursued by numerous creditors . |
| 2 | In the later years , however , these issues were pitched at optimistically low interest rates : the last BEA issue , of £200 millions in August 1955 ( among the largest seen by the London market ) , was left largely in government hands . |
| 3 | Thirteen parties fielded candidates , but only the eight represented in the outgoing parliament secured the minimum 2 per cent of the vote required for representation . |
| 4 | The top three results were posted by the new Sigma 35 in CHS 3 and the new J/35 in CHS 2 — the Westerly Typhoon scored 5th overall , with the J/44 4th — while Rob Boulter 's replacement for Alexa , the X-99 sunk in the Round the Island race , came 1st in CHS 1 . |
| 5 | So great was the carnage that warriors fought over bodies of the dead and ravens feasted on the wounded trapped inside the mounds of corpses . |
| 6 | George Healey , as a young man in the early 1860s , paid a visit to London where he learnt of church services for the deaf conducted by the Revs . |
| 7 | How the Deaf Served in the War |
| 8 | The rich fumed about the council tax , the poor about Norman Lamont 's decision to raise VAT on fuel . |
| 9 | The donation was similar to unemployment benefit and from November 1918 was available for periods up to a maximum of thirteen weeks to all the unemployed covered by the 1911 insurance scheme , to ex-servicemen , civilians , insured and non-insured alike . |
| 10 | The proportion of the unemployed identified by the survey who were not registered in the period 1978–81 is shown in Table 3.4 . |
| 11 | In Carthage an inveterate schism ( Donatism ) originated when a devout and wealthy lady who treasured the relic of a martyr was rebuked for lavishing kisses on it at the commemoration of the faithful departed at the eucharist ; ‘ she went off in a huff |
| 12 | The Iraqi leaned to the left and I peered through the crack in the sandbags at the Fattal building , a yellow-painted office block whose window frames had been chewed down to an inch or two by thousands of bullets ; the Christian Phalangist front line . |
| 13 | But the aim is to discover not merely whether there is more radioactivity in the brains of the trained compared with the control chicks , but just where in the brain it is located . |
| 14 | One region , with the dog-latin anatomical name Intermediate Medial Hyperstriatum Ventrale ( henceforward , IMHV ) , and another , the Lobus Parolfactorius ( henceforth LPO ) , ‘ lit up ’ in the trained compared with the control animals ( Fig 10.2 ) . |
| 15 | Probably the same as the British felt towards the Germans . |
| 16 | It followed , too , from the assumptions that the British made about the Masai 's conservatism , it appearing self-evident to them that because the Masai were so conspicuously uninterested in Western civilization they were in all respects content with the status quo ; so closely were Westernization and agitation linked in the administrative mind . |
| 17 | The British realized during the war years that they could never reap the benefits of the expected postwar boom in international civil aviation without a coherent national programme that would enable Britain to compete on equal terms with the United States . |
| 18 | Following the failure of militarisation and a sequence of abortive attempts at political reform , the British reverted in the mid-1970s to a policy based the ‘ primacy of the police ’ . |
| 19 | The French Corps des Galères was suppressed in 1748 ; and by the time of the French Revolution , except for the few maintained by the Spanish fleet and one or two in the navies of the small Italian States , galleys had disappeared from the sea which they had so long dominated . |
| 20 | Christian was one of the few killed in the capture of Rangoon , which had come about more quickly than most of us expected . |
| 21 | In the course of five days , during which the super-rich flooded through the hall , the Europeans learned just what American collectors want . |
| 22 | However , the reasonable person , while imbued with the knowledge the accused acquired throughout the crime , is not imbued with the mistaken beliefs he had . |
| 23 | The U.S.P.G.A. reconsidered the decision and announced that Louis ' entry would be approved as one of the 10 allowed to the local sponsors for invited amateurs . |
| 24 | High-cost patients would have their higher costs met by the district — patients who cost more than 5,000 a year would have the extra met by the district initially . |
| 25 | Thus , the separation theorem holds that there are only two portfolios in equilibrium ; the first composed of n risky assets and the second composed of the risk-free asset . |
| 26 | the second swelled over the beach mats , |
| 27 | The second related to the difficulties experienced by deaf and dumb school-leavers in finding suitable employment and particularly in entering skilled trades . |
| 28 | The first concerned QCs appearing alone in Court ; the second related to the unnecessary attendance of solicitors on Counsel in some Crown Court cases . |
| 29 | Consider , for example , the case of two owners of agricultural land on the periphery of a town , both of whom applied for planning permission to develop for housing purposes — the first being given permission and the second refused on the ground that the site in question was to form part of a green belt . |
| 30 | One of them , Christina Carter , eight , was due to be told last night that her 15-year-old sister , Danielle , was one of the three killed in the explosion . |