Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paintings , drawings , and portraits are other useful pictorial sources , and for the Middle Ages the decorations and embellishments in medieval manuscripts , books of hours and church panels form another excellent pictorial source . |
| 2 | For the early empiricists the answers taken in conjunction with other facts about the social structure add up to a description of a particular society . |
| 3 | For the remaining junctions the transitions will be staggered and result in a B II phosphate facing a B I phosphate . |
| 4 | For the Chinese communists the memories of the atrocities of the Sino-Japanese War were very real and the fears of a resurgent Japan appreciable . |
| 5 | Moreover , even for the common members the speeds and angles with which they cross the orbit of Mars differ from those at which they cross the orbit of the Earth-Moon system , and this further changes the exposure . |
| 6 | Later , in the autumn of 1912 , Picasso moved to Montparnasse , and during the following years the differences in their work began to become apparent , but the same friendly relations were maintained . |
| 7 | During the 11 years the numbers of residents in NHS geriatric and psychiatric beds fell by 41% ; this fall was partly compensated for by a 37% rise in the number of patients in acute beds . |
| 8 | " Doubling " in the context of gambling is clearly shown in Saint Pierre et le jongleur , where during the two games the stakes played for are steadily doubled . |
| 9 | During the quiet years the servants of the Witch King had scoured the world in search of hardy and warlike slaves . |
| 10 | To avoid confusion between the different arrows the keys ' names are used in the Guide instead of their symbols , except in the case of the four arrowed direction keys , where both are given . |
| 11 | When the primary " spiritual " disease is treated through the Anonymous Fellowships the consequences of addictive disease gradually resolve . |
| 12 | Why not , then , take the hint and cut through the sceptical problems the arguments invite , boldly saying that if all we know are ideas , then ideas are all there are ? |
| 13 | After the first ministrations the Swedes discreetly left him to his agonies . |
| 14 | After a few hours the butterflies can be released . |
| 15 | After a few moments the snuffles and grunts were overlaid by a voice explaining in sympathetically conspiratorial tones that we were listening to the sounds made by mating koalas in the Pilliga Nature Reserve in New South Wales . |
| 16 | After a few days the surgeons opened her brain ( craniotomy ) from the right side , and clipped the aneurysms . |
| 17 | After a few months the Girls would be sent to perform in casinos , mainly dotted round the south of France and Monte Carlo . |
| 18 | Webbed feet were not designed for mountaineering , but after a few weeks the ducks had devised a method of hopping up the stairs one at a time , eating every morsel of bread along the way , until finally they were actually in my bedroom . |
| 19 | The two women had not been able to help much by way of descriptions apart from recounting details of the horrific masks the burglars wore and that one appeared to be rather thin ( the one with the broken leg ) . |
| 20 | Among all the fuss about income tax , I should like to point out that one of the best things the Conservatives have done is to allow a wife 's earnings to be taxed separately from her husband . |
| 21 | If it was not for her , this Council would have had more opportunity of addressing some of the deep problems the Tories either created or left behind . |
| 22 | One of the first things the children notice about the stone is his odd logic . |
| 23 | Naturally , one of the first things the Fields did on arrival at Lartington Hall was to start their own pack of hounds . |
| 24 | For most of the new suburbanites the railways and the railway station became an integral part of their lives . |
| 25 | It is possible that there will be more than one round of interviews , but this simply introduces the repetition of some of the above activities The verdicts of interviewing panels must be recorded and where necessary reconciled with the preferences of applicants Offers of employment must be sent out including contracts Once these ( or alternatives ) have been accepted , rejection letters will be sent out . |
| 26 | IN THE EVENT of the Insurers failing to comply with any of the above provisions the Insurers will indemnify the Society to the limit of its interest for any loss which would otherwise have been covered by a policy to which this Agreement applies , including legal and other fees incurred by the Society as a direct consequence of such failure . |
| 27 | In each of the above examples the children have been asked to take on the role of " people who know " ; and it is this which gives them their stake in the drama . |
| 28 | The other kind of sex I learned about was the meaning of the four-letter words the boys chalked up on the playground wall , though the explanations were inadequate and puzzling , passed on by other children and received with incredulity . |
| 29 | Obviously , in both of the instant cases the parties had chosen , for reasons best known to themselves , not to adduce any extra evidence of the sort provided by the tapes . |
| 30 | However , it recommends that the auditor should have a duty to report direct to the regulator and should be required to examine and comment on the effectiveness of the internal controls the trustees have established . |