Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elf astrologers and geomancers studied the portents to divine the best time for the new king to begin his reign , and calculated the best time for him to pass through the flame . |
| 2 | Suggestive crop-marks at the point where the projected line of the defences meets the emerging east-west street have also been photographed from the air , but proof of another gate here will have to wait for excavation . |
| 3 | The very size of the defences emphasizes the local wealth available when compared with other large and small towns in the province . |
| 4 | If the essays describe the exciting journey , the postcard gallery , the sandwich lunch and little else , the content analysis of such essays will be quite illuminating ! |
| 5 | But the circulars reflect the changing picture on the ground , revealed in the national monitoring exercises conducted by the SSI and health regions . |
| 6 | Twenty-four hour , 365 days a year fast emergency response is included in the contracts to ensure the maximum convenience to customers and guests |
| 7 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 8 | When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . |
| 9 | It was some time after the crowds stormed the Presidential Palace compound in northern Bucharest in the late morning of 22 December 1989 that they found a confused old lady in a bungalow in the grounds . |
| 10 | One of the checks computes the current reference pixel count as a percentage of a previously saved ‘ normal ’ value . |
| 11 | He stresses the ways in which the period from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s saw the effective by-passing of local elites , including councillors , because of the development of other central-local linkages . |
| 12 | The ropes took the first opportunity of falling into the waterfall and freezing solid , bending at unpredictable angles , more or less imitating wire hawser . |
| 13 | The solicitors informed the local authority that they would be applying for an order for costs against the authority . |
| 14 | The crackle of the flames woke the old man , and he tried to open his door . |
| 15 | Behind me , the candle I had so carefully placed in the dry straw in the garret of Le Coq d'Or kindled into life and the flames turned the evil tavern into a blazing inferno . |
| 16 | And last Monday Dr Harold Varmus let it be known that the thrill of winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the morning was as nothing compared with being at Candlestick Park in the evening to see the Giants take the National League pennant for the first time in 27 years . |
| 17 | At one level , the shareholders have the inalienable right to dismiss directors by a simple majority vote under s 303 Companies Act 1985 . |
| 18 | The discussions encompassed the minimum programme for such a peacetime coalition . |
| 19 | There are a number of problems to be found in the attempts to explain the low level of female crime as being due to physical or mental maladjustment . |
| 20 | Into Edinburgh by late lunch-time , past the signs trumpeting the up-coming Euro-summit . |
| 21 | But in these nursery nests , the kittens took the first nipple they came across , regardless of whether it was in a familiar position on the female 's belly , or even which belly it was . |
| 22 | The editors are aware of the dangers accompanying the recent transformation of AI from ugly duckling to golden-egg-laying goose : ‘ The crisis we now face is a crisis of success , and many wonder if the substance of the field can support the high hopes . ’ |
| 23 | The unit 's findings are based on a variety of factors such as : *more travel is likely to be for leisure purposes , with people taking greater advantage of greater access to the countryside *there simply is n't enough space in the cities to accommodate the predicted number of privately owned cars . |
| 24 | Parsons had said that among the causes was the fact that the massive influx into the cities following the mid-seventies oil-boom had created a rootless , unhappy proletariat . |
| 25 | Hit second ball made four — the fielders showing the minimum inclination to intercept it . |
| 26 | Two outstanding characteristics of labour law during the second half of that century were the intermittent recognition by politicians in government and Parliament that control of trade unionism by the imposition of penalties was of doubtful efficacy ; and the recurrent attempts by the courts to preserve the penal method . |
| 27 | The common law offence of sedition , which consists of stirring hatred amongst different classes of Her Majesty 's subjects had fallen into disuse , and an unsuccessful attempt to use it to prosecute for the making of anti-semitic remarks appears to have discouraged prosecuting authorities from seeking to persuade the courts to mould the common law to deal with new problems posed by those who promote ill-will in an increasingly multi-racial society . |
| 28 | ‘ We have been left with no alternative but to take action through the courts to defend the Legal Aid Scheme . |
| 29 | However , if the courts display the commonsense approach that the House of Lords did in the one relevant reported case of any importance , the probability is that we shall get by without much trouble . |
| 30 | More generally , almost in a caricature of Dicey 's views , a belief grew during the early decades of the twentieth century that , because of the destruction in the balances in parliamentary mechanisms wrought by the rise of party government , the courts formed the last bastion in the protection of liberties immanent in constitutional arrangements . |