Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here it crosses the Trent and into the Erewash Canal and on to Langley Mill . |
| 2 | The successor , therefore , acted as the son of Horus in the rites of burying the Osiris as in the legend and was thus recognised as the legitimate king . |
| 3 | The sun had quite a lot of warmth in it and he set off , behind the back of the Manor and along the bank of the river , to the field where he was to work . |
| 4 | For much of the period and up to the First World War , the targets of the largest movements of national liberation were the two great empires of Eastern and Central Europe — that of the Romanovs in the Russias and of the Habsburgs in Austro-Hungary . |
| 5 | In 1981 and 1982 the group had visited the test site with their ship the Vega and on the last occasion had been attacked and arrested by the French Navy as they attempted to enter the 12-mile territorial limit . |
| 6 | By 1988 Britain was for the first time selling more to the EEC than to the rest of the world ( £47 billion out of £93.5 billion at 1991 prices ) . |
| 7 | This was a prevalent interpretation within the EEC , and one which was reinforced by the tone of the debate in the British House of Commons upon the Stockholm Convention , in which most speakers concentrated more upon the relationship with the EEC than upon the organisation and aims of EFTA . |
| 8 | One of the reasons why there has been nothing outstanding about the rate of growth of trade within the EEC and between the EEC and third countries may have been because its members have not been as assiduous as might have been expected ( by the British at least ) in removing barriers to trade between themselves and with the rest of the world . |
| 9 | The other lesson that has come out of the work within the RAF and from the work done outside is that expert systems in particular , but AI in general will not come about as stand-alone , independent systems , but will be embedded or connected to existing or planned conventional computing . |
| 10 | Hungarian lawyers before the war were proud of the fact that Hungarian civil law was a non-codified body of law based on the ‘ common custom of the realm ’ and crystallized in decisions of the Curia and of the five appeal courts . |
| 11 | In this book , Leonie Archer looks at the effects of this in the Judaism of antiquity , where blood has a major significance in ritual both in the sacrifices in the Temple and in the shedding of blood in circumcision — the ‘ Covenant ’ between God and his people . |
| 12 | They also made a good point , that all timber-frame houses should be formally recorded as such either by the NHBC or on the title deeds , ‘ so that people realise they are living in a timber-frame house and can take professional advice when making alterations ’ . |
| 13 | But the loss , damage or delay has occurred during the carriage by the other means of transport and was not caused by an act or omission of the carrier by road is determined not by the CMR but by the applicable international convention . |
| 14 | It is a system that works particularly well with the Yakuza because of the bizarre but rigid code of ethics by which the Japanese Mafia conducts itself , quite different from any other criminal society in the world . |
| 15 | In purely pragmatic terms , such identification with Catholicism was a way of currying favour with the Vatican and with the influential Catholic lobby in the United States . |
| 16 | As a tourist region , Béarn is made up of two of the classic Pyrenean valleys , of the Aspe and of the Ossau , plus , to the north , the city of Pau . |
| 17 | They claimed the Goths who had settled along the Vistula and in the Ukraine as the founders of the Polish state , saying that rule and order had been brought to these lands over the heads of the drunken , idolatrous and stupid Polish peasantry . |
| 18 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |
| 19 | ‘ To be fair , Kitty told us you were listed as killed on the Marne and by the time anyone found out the truth it was too late . ’ |
| 20 | Because of their proximity , there was a certain amount of crossing between the two Devon breeds and also occasionally between them and the Hereford and with the Guernsey , which has an ancient link with the South Devon . |
| 21 | Details were wanted on the number of Englishmen employed " in the Mynes or at the said worke , either for getting Oare or about roasting & melting furnace or hamers , & whether there be any skilful to manage those works if the now farmers should dye . " |
| 22 | On that assumption , Theunis Krankoor 's arrival in Cape Town can be placed within a period of about fifteen years , after the implementation of the full Napoleonic legal code in the Netherlands and before the birth of his first child , James , who , according to his wedding and death registrations , was born in the Cape Colony about 1823 or 1824 . |
| 23 | Bouterse claimed that Shankar had collaborated with the Netherlands government to humiliate him by failing to lodge a diplomatic protest when , on three occasions during December , he was denied access to the Netherlands or to the local press while in transit at Amsterdam airport . |
| 24 | ‘ Realistic ’ seems to mean negotiation acceptable to the FMLN and to the Salvadorean army , which would have to participate to ensure that any subsequent deal should stick . ’ |
| 25 | Other nationalist movements in Europe had the character rather of independence movements directed against a dominant empire , such as that of the Habsburgs or of the Russian Tsars ; and as Seton-Watson ( 1964 ) observed , some of them — for example , those of the Slovaks and the Ukrainians — began as cultural movements resulting from the creation of a standardized literary language . |
| 26 | The opinion gained ground — an opinion with which Eric Ashby would evidently have had some sympathy — that the employment of a full-time tutor for the county , whether by the WEA or by the University Extra-Mural Board , placed constraints on branches ' freedom to choose subjects of study because of pressure to find a viable programme for the full-timer to teach . |
| 27 | Guest vocal stars were often from the States and of the sex-calibre of Frank Sinatra . |
| 28 | The nationalist camp in Likud argues that such contrivances will lead eventually to dialogue with the PLO and to the establishment of a Palestinian state . |
| 29 | Katherine 's remains were coming on the Saturday and on the Friday I slipped up to the cemetery and saw the grave diggers digging Mary 's grave . |
| 30 | Certainly the Rhaetian I have seen in southern Europe , for example on the south side of the Pyrenees and along the shores of Lake Iseo in northern Italy , is incredibly like that of Britain , even in the way the fossils are preserved . |