Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are well understood , cheap to collect and very difficult to evade … rates should remain for the foreseeable future the main source of local revenue for local government ’ ( DOE/Welsh Office 1983a : 14 ) . |
| 2 | Obviously , the fewer carp competing for the available food the better the chance of reaching a worthwhile size . |
| 3 | Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ? |
| 4 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 5 | When the primary " spiritual " disease is treated through the Anonymous Fellowships the consequences of addictive disease gradually resolve . |
| 6 | ( China , while not using its veto , nevertheless abstained , thus breaching for the first time the unanimity of the five permanent members of the Security Council in supporting resolutions on the Gulf crisis . |
| 7 | Soviet negotiators had been eager to preserve for the Soviet Union the right to retain something close to 80 per cent of the Warsaw Pact total . |
| 8 | More than 12 vans and cars were stopped during the 35 minutes the road block was in position . |
| 9 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 10 | Hardly aware of the chill she paced restlessly along the bank , seeing for the first time the way the dew crisped to frost along each blade of grass until the parkland veered from dark to grey to an ephemeral diamond enchantment . |
| 11 | But now she looked around her , really seeing for the first time the humming activity of the fruit and vegetable market , breathing in the aromatic smells , noticing how charming the open square was , with its border of pizza stalls and cafés and bistros . |
| 12 | On unsteady legs she walked towards the painting , seeing for the first time the mischievous face of a gremlin peeping out beneath the skirt of an old lady bent double , sweeping a woodland path . |
| 13 | As she shares Christmas dinner with her brother Charles , Diana will experience for the first time the trauma she has dreaded since the cracks first showed in her marriage . |
| 14 | The Commission would have increased powers , including for the first time the power to propose legislation in the highly-sensitive area of home affairs on such issues as the right of asylum , immigration and residency rights ( hitherto discussed at an intergovernmental level in the " Trevi group " ) . |
| 15 | Both legal literature and the documentary evidence attest the use of what can be called trust clauses , as well as the practice of using for a single disposition the wording of both legacy and trust . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Reading Council were lashing together a municipal PR exercise , using as a dodgy pretext the 400th anniversary of the destruction of the local abbey by Henry VIII . |
| 17 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 18 | The fact that the people involved who killed Chai in the snackbar fight were mostly ‘ unemployed youths ’ , seemed to emphasise for the young intellectuals the disrespect for knowledge prevalent in a money-orientated society . |
| 19 | She experienced for the first time the frightening inhospitality of city streets . |
| 20 | The Special Discount is being continued on the same basis ( see page 2 ) and for those policies which qualify for the first time the increase is offset by approximately 6% . |
| 21 | When pressed for a favourable reply the pontiff put forward a set of propositions which would have to be accepted by Napoleon before the ceremony could take place . |
| 22 | Often regarded as a last resort the use of contract cleaners is a valid management option to replace any or all of the ‘ in house ’ capability . |
| 23 | Governor Mario Cuomo of New York , widely regarded as the strongest candidate the Democrats could field against Bush , announced on Oct. 11 that he was thinking about running for the presidential nomination . |
| 24 | If the date for returning to work continues to slip for no apparent reason the claimant should be advised that we will be arranging for an independent examination . |
| 25 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 26 | In this paper we report for the first time the isolation of cDNA for a zebrafish POU family gene which is ubiquitously expressed during embryogenesis . |
| 27 | Importantly , we report for the first time the ability to directly and effectively transfect cells in a growth arrested state . |
| 28 | We report for the first time the successful lithotripsy of a calcified cystic duct stone despite these relative and absolute contraindications in a patient with Crohn 's disease . |
| 29 | The officials said the plan , approved by the President last week , has as a central element the use of the US military to intercept drug transactions abroad . |
| 30 | The principle of Contrast , then , has as a general consequence the elimination of synonyms . |