Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should ask national income estimators conceptual questions such as : which of the activities a farm family does for itself without payment , such as haircutting for example , have you included in the national income ? ’ , says a leading development economist ( Seers 1979 : 15 ) . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The disciplines a Designer works by demand some very special qualities — in effect they demand a specialist in many wide-ranging fields , coupled with virtual Sherlock Holmes powers of observation . |
| 5 | Below the continents the crust is much thicker , averaging about 35 km but reaching up to 70km beneath some mountain ranges . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | I 'll explain to you about the course , and the exams the rest of it . |
| 10 | We do the exams the week before , er before . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Intikhab Alam gave the Pakistanis a ‘ pep talk ’ during the interval , pointing out that the pitch was taking spin already and that they should aim to bat only once , and massively at that . |
| 13 | For the purpose of the Acts a dealer is ‘ a person who in the normal course of his business attends sales by auction for the purpose of purchasing goods with a view to reselling them . ’ |
| 14 | Understandably , the expert systems did not assist the experts a great deal but came into their own when both of the 2 experts were not available and an inexperienced technician had to take over . |
| 15 | The desire to teach the experts a lesson took on manic proportions . |
| 16 | The report challenges many of the professional verities and calls into question many of the attitudes the profession has struck in recent years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But when Khan goes on to describe the crowds a little more closely , this picture of prayerful pilgrimage undergoes something of a transformation : ‘ On seeing beautiful women carrying in their hands porcelain bottles of perfume , the crowds become uncontrollable … the ecstatic people move around as though being swept into a whirlpool … |
| 19 | It was all very well for countries where uniforms were fashionable — as they certainly were not in Britain and the United States — to encourage among the labourers the soldierly virtues , not the least of which was to be poorly paid . |
| 20 | For a more detailed acquaintance with the various modifications of the Wing-veins the works by Comstock ( 1918 ) and Seguy ( 1959 ) should be consulted . |
| 21 | The document which Bishop Tikhon will read puts Raskolnikov in Svidrigailov 's shoes because it is a record of the excesses a mortally jaded palate has got up to . |
| 22 | Donizetti 's resources did not run to the excesses a more modern composer would have applied in depicting a tormented mind . |
| 23 | In the mid-1970s a strain of Bt was found in Israel that was active against Diptera and in particular against mosquitoes and blackflies . |
| 24 | In the mid-1970s a young woman went to a shop to rent a television set and was required to provide a guarantor . |
| 25 | Until the mid-1970s a great many public relations workers came from the media . |
| 26 | Since the mid-1970s a growing number of privately owned small psychiatric hospitals has been established . |
| 27 | In the mid-1970s an argument for the existence of a black hole at the Galactic Centre came from the discovery of a γ -ray line at 511keV ( ref. 78 ) attributed to the annihilation of electrons and positrons from the general direction of the nucleus . |
| 28 | Glasgow , Liverpool , Newcastle and Leeds pressed on with their extensive highway systems , but other cities abandoned them and by the mid-1970s an urban road policy in the context of an explicit town planning framework was stood on its head . |
| 29 | From the mid-1970s the slow-down in economic growth and rising inflation sapped the confidence of policy-makers in demand management . |
| 30 | 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 . |