Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.

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1 In fairness it should be added that for the female guests the question of rooms was as much an affair of space as of rank , since many arrived with anything up to 25 pieces of luggage , clear proof that at Compiègne , unlike Fontainebleau , style played a primary role .
2 He believes that during the inter-war years the three sections of the upper class virtually fused together as they all became increasingly involved in the growing industrial enterprises .
3 USING THE American motion picture industry as a gauge of public interest it would seem that through the post-war years the American public was content to uneasily ignore the catastrophe that was Pearl Harbor .
4 Although for the upper classes the Pax Romana in the age of the Antonines ( second century AD ) came as a great opportunity to concentrate on and uphold the customs of their local town or district , for humbler men it Provided wider horizons and unprecedented opportunities for travel .
5 It is clear from the above that under the new provisions the general principle is that only a private investor has a right of action for a contravention to which s.62 applies .
6 Mr Gummer argues that under the new proposals the least efficient farmers would have , ‘ no incentive to improve and every incentive to go into reverse and avoid the impact of the new system by artificially dividing the land ’ .
7 Washing facilities are another priority , although in the early stages the patient might be washed in his room , as though he were in hospital .
8 It may be assumed that within the three miles the territorial sovereignty would be sufficient to cover any such legislation as the present .
9 If such an arrangement has the result that the group , taken as a whole , can not avoid payments , the FRED would require that in the consolidated accounts the instrument be reported as a liability .
10 The fact that in the lower orders the convex or concave condition is constant for individual veins helps in determining their homologies .
11 Van den Boogard suggested that in the Anglo-Norman fabliaux the author assumes what he calles the persona of the clerk , i.e. a character looking for respect and admiration for his ability to tell a fascinating tale of intrigue ( inter alia ) , whereas a French author is more likely to adopt the persona of the jongleur , shocking by his anarchism but amusing at the same time through his self-mockery .
12 It was certainly the case that in the first centuries the example of Jesus must have been a tremendous model for living and for dying .
13 Mr Ackerman stressed that in the five years the 20-pupil day school had been run by the Mannafields Christian Education Association at Carberry , near Musselburgh , East Lothian , no pupil had been punished in this way .
14 Mr. Newman also submitted that in the above circumstances the order for committal of the applicant was an abuse of the process of the court , and for that reason the court should exercise its discretion to refuse to make such an order .
15 Blood-filled spaces or lacunae soon develop in the wing-pad ( appearing in the and instar of Pteronarcys , for example ) and alter as growth proceeds so that in the later instars the lacunae correspond in arrangement to the veins of the adult wings ; the veins , in fact , arise by differential sclerotization of the integument adjacent to the lacunae .
16 I 've enquired of the regular users of this service and they tell me that on the following days the advertised journeys did not take place :
17 There is thus no doubt that on the older authorities the courts have refused to review by way of certiorari the decision of a visitor even though they were prepared to grant mandamus to require him to act or to prohibit him from acting in excess of jurisdiction .
18 Cruickshank believes that over the three years the results have been that ‘ so much of what we do is now being delineated by what the users want — the Patients ’ Charter is just one example of that — and health boards are taking much more time to get views , getting people like general practitioners contributing in strategy-setting and so on , so they are less likely to make mistakes .
19 The second factor shows that at the highest speeds the pull.out torque is inversely proportional to the supply frequency and that , as before , a large total phase resistance improves the high speed performance .
20 It was held that at the relevant stages the seller could sue for the instalments then due .
21 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 .
22 It also becomes more specific and for the higher potencies the remedy selection has to be more accurate for the remedy to work .
23 Ah , but you 're going to be getting some extra police officers by taking them off er , paperwork , er you 're gon na get two thousand three hundred I see in the press , well that as shown , that of course will be twenty three , but if anybody here thinks the Chief Constable 's gon na produce twenty three new police officers through reductions in paperwork and through the other initiatives the Home Secretary has announced , well I do n't believe them , and we shall have to wait and see .
24 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 .
25 Both slow movements are warmly and elegantly done , and if in the outer ones the soloist sometimes seems to be hell-bent on reaching the winning post first , the orchestra keeps up with ease .
26 ‘ The officials at Preston have been nothing but encouraging and in the early days the coaching staff put in a lot of time to make up for my lack of experience .
27 None of us really knew what we were going to see , and in the early days the tapes were rather artificial because the lessons were all so well prepared , the kids knew they were going to have a video in the classes , it did n't mean that they were always well behaved !
28 Most of our population stock arrived later , from northern Germany and Denmark , as shown in the place names of most of England and southern Scotland , and in the Middle Ages the Kingdom of Scotland was one of the poorest areas of Europe .
29 The London Medical Review wrote in 1862 that : ‘ there can be no doubt that both in the human subject and in the lower animals the female does participate fully in the sexual passion ’ , and many others were sceptical of his claims .
30 Gradually weight loss occurs despite a good diet , and in the final stages the person ceases to recognise the family or even the self in the mirror , loses bladder and bowel control , any capacity for self-care or ability to communicate in words .
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