Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to provide computer assistance for the lexicography of the New OED |
| 2 | But the old religion had elements which prepared its adherents for the symbolism of the new : the death and resurrection of Osiris , the representations of the mother goddess Isis with her son Horus on her lap , the symbol of life in the form of a cross , the Egyptian ankh . |
| 3 | If the Policyholder was unaware of the faulty roof or did not have reasonable time in which to carry out repairs , then it is in order to deal with the claim for the damage to the internal decorations and/or contents but not the repairs to the roof , which the Policyholder should have carried out as soon as possible . |
| 4 | The Scottish Office is yet to be guaranteed a slot for the legislation in the next session of parliament . |
| 5 | The Profitboss steers clear of such indulgence , for in the end everyone pays dearly for the privilege of the few . |
| 6 | However , if our policies once allow for the possibility of the human race existing for ever , or into the indefinite future , one can take average happiness over all future time as the effective goal , even from the totalistic point of view , since the contribution to quantity of happiness from population size will anyway be maximal . |
| 7 | Her argument was that the subjects of the old master paintings could be disregarded by a painter who wished to find lessons for the present in the artistic practice of the past . |
| 8 | There was a whole lot of other stuff scheduled for the beginning of the second millennium : green rain , black snow , animals learning to talk and a heck of a lot of red-hot hail . |
| 9 | In time for the beginning of the new academic year , WWF has produced a new education catalogue . |
| 10 | The agreement came only 10 hours before the deadline for the beginning of the new fiscal year , after which automatic spending cuts triggered by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction law would have become operational . |
| 11 | Eventually a further final , concurrent budget resolution has to be voted on and submitted for the president 's signature , theoretically in time for the beginning of the financial year on 1 October . |
| 12 | As to the prospects of a resumption of oil exports by Iraq , Baghdad 's State Oil Marketing Organization ( SOMO ) forecast this for the beginning of the third quarter of 1991 . |
| 13 | But the constitution itself was explained as a gift from the Emperor as a reward for the loyalty of the restricted numbers that were enfranchised , and its whole ethos was rooted not in the rights of individuals but in their duties as obedient subjects . |
| 14 | If , for example , to carry out a particular operation meant further long-term treatment , this must enter the equation ; as must also the comparative cost in caring for the patient without the particular treatment . |
| 15 | Consuelo had taken them out to get at the anti-inflammatory tablets for the patient with the sprained ankle . |
| 16 | PRISON officers have called for the reopening of the special segregation unit in Inverness , called ‘ the Cages ’ . |
| 17 | The date for the reopening of the Public Enquiry into the future of the Swanage Railway has been declared and will be on October 12 in Swanage Town Hall . |
| 18 | It was true that there were now ‘ whole chanceries ’ of paperwork in the offices of village-Soviet secretaries , but most of the secretaries had worked for the volost' in the Tsarist regime and were somewhat suspect . |
| 19 | In the context of political campaigning for parliamentary elections to be held on Oct. 13 , opposition groups called for the banning of the Bulgarian Communist Party and other hardline groups which did support the Soviet coup . |
| 20 | If he had known what fate lay in store for his beloved Boks perhaps State President F.W. de Klerk would have decided against holding a midweek reception for the three teams about to lock horns for the supremacy of the Southern Hemisphere some 200 metres down an old mine shaft on the Johannesburg Reef — Shaft 14 , Gold Reed City , to be precise . |
| 21 | The same is true for many other periods ; for instance , coins provide a date for the deposit of the great Viking hoard from Cuerdale in Lancashire of c.AD905 , and this in turn provides a date for the associated objects and hence a pivotal fixed chronological point for our understanding of Anglo-Saxon metalwork . |
| 22 | So complementary medicine looks for the healing of the whole individual : the different parts of the body as they interact with one another , the mind-body as an integral system , the harmony of the individual with his/her surroundings and the harmony of the Universe at large . |
| 23 | These courses do not lead to qualifications awarded by the University , but they do help candidates for professional qualifications , such as the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians ( MRCPEd ) and for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons ( FRCSEd ) . |
| 24 | Where an undertaking refuses to co-operate with the Commission , the Commission can not force access to the premises , but it can call for the assistance of the relevant national authorities in carrying out an active search for evidence and the national authorities must co-operate in providing such assistance . |
| 25 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 26 | The first part of our proposal , therefore , is that information in the mental model is used rather indiscriminately as part of the context for the interpretation of the current clause — even when linguistic considerations suggest that discrimination is in order . |
| 27 | The Act provided for the old Independent Broadcasting Authority to be replaced by the new Radio Authority and the new Independent TV Commission , each with authority codes for the interpretation of the new law . |
| 28 | The ‘ social contract ’ arrangements , whereby the Labour leadership hoped to secure voluntary wage restraint in exchange for the repeal of the Industrial Relations Act , food subsidies , a rent freeze and other measures , were developing in somewhat shaky manner . |
| 29 | a body with branches in various parts of Britain which agitated strongly for the repeal of the Catholic Relief Act of 1778 . |
| 30 | He was elected lord mayor in 1779 , and was thus in office during the Gordon riots of 1780 , when a campaign by Lord George Gordon [ q.v. ] for the repeal of the Catholic Relief Act of 1778 led to a week of mob rule . |