Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is that the battle of the forms is won by the party who fires the " last shot " . |
| 2 | What is won on the swings is lost on the roundabouts . |
| 3 | In conclusion , the argument that the duty of directors to act only in the interests of the shareholders operates to ensure that the will of the shareholders is implemented by the management of the company is fundamentally flawed because the directors have considerable discretion in defining exactly what the interests of the shareholders are . |
| 4 | A rather chilling symbol of what we would now regard as the male chauvinism of the times is furnished by the wording and the sentiments contained in an Act of Parliament passed in the year Charles and Elizabeth were married , 1770 : |
| 5 | Considerable difficulties of construction can arise in licence and distribution agreements where confidential information relating to the products is supplied to the licensee or distributor . |
| 6 | The roads is protected from the meltem and occasional westerly gales by Kekova Island . |
| 7 | However , for those aged 60–64 the pattern is quite different , the clear difference in the direction of the flows is indicated by the arrows in the Figure 4.1 . |
| 8 | In a sense , the meaning of the objects is encapsulated in the verb here , too , and so we would expect the expressions to be pleonastic . |
| 9 | 6 However , this does not mean that it does not matter which of the indices is used as the proxy in estimating the CAPM . |
| 10 | The text of the entries is held in the archive in 40 corresponding files called tables . |
| 11 | Therefore voluntary aided schools are in effect a kind of partnership : the premises are provided and to an extent kept up by the religious or other body which established them whilst the cost of running the schools is borne by the public purse . |
| 12 | However , normally one contact man from each of the units is transferred to the staff of the project manager and is responsible to him for the work that is done in his unit . |
| 13 | The price of the units is quoted in the Financial Times . |
| 14 | The complexity of handling of the heads is reinforced by the boldly simplified , virtually hieroglyphic , handling of dress and other impermanent features . |
| 15 | The Battle of the Waves is fought on the Blighted Isle . |
| 16 | One view of marine erosion would regard it as active only in the early stages of cliff development ( A to C in Fig. 8.12 ) , while at later stages the energy of the waves is dissipated on the increasingly wide rock platform so that erosion at the base of the cliff becomes ineffective , a fact attested by the degradation of the cliff by agents of subaerial weathering ( D and E in Fig. 8.12 ) . |
| 17 | When the top rail has been fitted onto the tenons the profile of the tops of the uprights is traced onto the top rail , which can then , like the lower back rail , be cut to the correct curb using the template previously prepared from the original . |
| 18 | In evidence to the Environment Committee two illustrations were given : ‘ attempts by authorities to dispose of surplus school playing fields with the benefit of permission for development ; and competing applications for superstore development when one of the sites is owned by the authority themselves ’ . |
| 19 | The island continent of the Elves is situated in the Great Western Ocean between the Old and the New Worlds . |
| 20 | The book of the Gospels is laid on the shoulders of the newly chosen bishop , and opened at random , and a finger laid on the page — ’ |
| 21 | The real benefits , however , will emerge gradually as each of the subsidiaries is freed from the burden of interference — and cost — of a head office . |
| 22 | Even if none of the domains is invoked against the speaker , it is still there , within the discourse . |
| 23 | The deixis occurring in the poems is examined in the light of the theories previously discussed . |
| 24 | The extremely utilitarian front end of the Sprinters is displayed against the massive ironwork of the Forth Bridge by No 150284 as it heads south working the 13.40 Dundee to Edinburgh train on 29 August 1988 . |
| 25 | Most of the material which flows out under pressure from the capillaries is returned from the tissues by osmosis ; by virtue of the high concentration of plasma protein in the blood and the sparsity of proteins in tissue fluid . |
| 26 | The Acts of the Apostles is written in the same hand . |
| 27 | Inefficiency in the clinics and the universities is compounded by the fact that research groups tend to be small and isolated , shunning collaborative links with other small groups , either locally or nationally . |
| 28 | This particular part of the excavations is concentrating on the Bronze Age and Iron Age levels . |
| 29 | To concentrate on the barons is to stare at the public face . |
| 30 | ( 4 ) Where under a contract of sale the property in the goods is transferred from the seller to the buyer the contract is called a sale . |