Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But all at once the light-hearted feel to the conversation had flown .
2 Five of the eight appear on the royal books for 1661 as members of the ensemble known as the Hautbois et musettes de Poitou .
3 The Indian Supreme Court on Aug. 27 cleared the way for a resumption of investigations into allegations of high-level corruption in connection with the 1986 deal for the purchase of Bofors artillery from Sweden for the Indian army [ see p. 37184 ] .
4 I would n't be surprised if the coming slump makes the Thirties look like the proverbial walk in the park .
5 He spoke briefly of the responsibility the rich owe to the poor of the Third World .
6 If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’
7 CHESTER-based Paul Affleck and South African Ian Palmer both joined Ian Woosnam on the 67 mark in the first round of the Honda Open in Hamburg yesterday .
8 He found him , stout and pink , in a brown suit , knee-breeches , and blue-grey stockings , sitting in the farm kitchen on the wooden settle by the fire , smoking a long clay pipe .
9 But , the heavens opened as it seems they only can when the British take to the outdoors in mid-summer .
10 The New Zealand government looks after the Cook Islands , Niue and Tokelau ; the Americans have Samoa , and the British look after the four islands of the Pitcairn group , selling stamps for the islanders to help them keep up their revenues .
11 It is difficult to exaggerate how many eggs the French have in the EC-German basket .
12 Many children have been injured in increasing numbers over the last year , and it was the idea of one school teacher in Oxford to bring a group of gendarmes over to England to teach children how the French behave on the roads .
13 Thirty of the forty fall into the four occupations of factory work , retail sales work , domestic work , and office or secretarial work .
14 Over 12 acres of Gardens ranging from the formal circular Rose Garden on the site of the Old Keep to the Wild Garden in the ravine .
15 Maybe other industrialised Nations will affect European trade in the future , as the Japanese have over the last 10 years .
16 TICKET sales in Cornwall have approached the 30,000 mark for the ADT County Championship final at Twickenham tomorrow , confounding fears that the Easter holiday would deter supporters from travelling to London .
17 In 1976 , unemployment in Britain passed the one-million mark for the first time since the Second World War .
18 When Bromhead contributed the article on Differential Calculus to the 1819 Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica he emphasized Woodhouse 's influence .
19 Neither the Lamoureux nor ‘ Symphony Orchestra ’ in the early 1930s were first rate ensembles technically , but the authentic feel for the music is there , no mistake about it .
20 The following have in the past been regarded as a natural user of land ; water installations in a house or flat , a fire in a domestic grate , burning stubble in the normal course of agriculture , electric wiring and gas pipes in a house or shop , the ordinary working of mines and minerals on land , erecting or pulling down houses or walls , trees whether planted or self-sown ( if not poisonous ) .
21 A sticking-point seemed to be the Burmese demand for the Frontier areas to be brought into the constitutional process .
22 ‘ We did n't know ’ , he says as the three embark on the master plan , ‘ that we were playing with fire — Greek fire , ’ he adds , ‘ the kind that burns and destroys ’ , in case we do n't know what playing with fire means .
23 But the reader is mistaken if he assumes that the humble eat below the salt in that great hall , or that the poor come to the buttery-hatch for alms .
24 In the CytR binding site , the substitutions in the five mutant promoters are indicated , the inverted arrows indicate the inverted repeat in the CytR binding site and the tandem arrows indicate the direct repeat .
25 The arrows indicate the sequences in the CRP sites that share homology with the consensus CRP site , the boxes indicate the sequences sharing homology with the inverted repeat in the CytR recognition sequence in deoP2 , the numbers indicate coordinates with respect to the start site for transcription ( +1 ) .
26 The molecular weight markers on the left apply to the amplifications of human DNA and those on the right to the amplifications of schistosome DNA .
27 Numbers on the left refer to the molecular weight standards ( MW st ) .
28 It lists the revenues due to the apostolic see from the patrimonial estates and the tributes and payments from various European secular rulers and religious houses .
29 To judge from Egypt , the traditional bell-wether of the Arab flock , they are failing to do so .
30 Wha what happens if the good come from the store ?
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