Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in 1988 though , none of the above was known to this actress , who fancied herself as a serious artist who 'd been through the portals of the National and the RSC , albeit coming quickly out the other side , and whose biggest ambition was a ) to perfect a stage yawn , b ) to trim her inner thighs , and c ) to fry a perfect fishball . |
| 2 | Dr Williams has been through the ranks of the order and now holds the post of County Surgeon for County Durham . |
| 3 | A a apart from Chris and Bill , I 've sat down with all the M S fours an and been through the changes to the appointment contract , and how they now erm form the basis of the er interim client report . |
| 4 | In between the time the dustbins are put out and the truck arrives , the pickers have been through the contents of the bins . |
| 5 | The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted . |
| 6 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 7 | While a formal prospectus is normally issued for each degree course , such statements vary considerably in the amount of detail they give , and how explicit they are about the aims of the course . |
| 8 | They are as worried as we are about the implications for the people of this country . |
| 9 | They 're like the arms of the same monster . ’ |
| 10 | Erm I think what we have to do in particular as , as , as full time officers is , is probably try and er and erm chase things up although they they 're within the realms of the respo the respective LEC 's but to try and make sure that they do get some clearer , if not confirmed , insight into re in relation to the contribution aspect . |
| 11 | In one family the daughters " attended dances " regularly , but these can hardly have been like the dance-halls of the inter-war period . |
| 12 | The warehouses are organised in a hierarchical manner with a central one buying from satellite warehouses , which are situated in the poorer residential areas of Cali , so that they are near the homes of the garbage pickers . |
| 13 | We 've been behind the scenes of the Society , which is funded entirely from public donations . |
| 14 | Each image is like a candle and it is for us to embroider our minds so that they are like the constellations of the heavens — Rumi 's harvest of stars . |
| 15 | Gays in the church , for example , are like the canaries in the Welsh mines , leading the way for others . ’ |
| 16 | Bachrach and Baratz ( 1970 ) argued that power is also exercised when some groups are prevented from raising issues that are against the interests of the powerful . |
| 17 | Some such services are illegal , and many are against the rules in the toughened regulation . |
| 18 | Webster and Simmons are under no illusions about the task ahead of them . |
| 19 | Bentham 's intention here was explicit , for as he remarked ( Works , IV p 70 ) : " It is obvious that the more the persons to be inspected are under the eyes of the persons who should inspect them , the more perfectly will the purpose of the establishment have been attained . |
| 20 | Jackson must 've been under the effects of the anaesthetic after a nose job to come out with something so bad . |
| 21 | I do n't know how familiar you are with the accounts of the group as a whole . " |
| 22 | ‘ It 's just the way you are when you are with the lesbians in the group . ’ |
| 23 | The most obvious places where this is likely to have happened are along the flanks of the Mid-North Sea and Ringkøping-Fyn Highs , around late Cretaceous inversion features such as the Texel-IJsselmeer High ( van Adrichem-Boogaert and Burgers 1983 ) , and in areas where the Zechstein is presently at outcrop such as N.E. England . |
| 24 | Despite an EEC directive requiring member states to have motor policies giving automatic compulsory cover , not all countries in the Green Card system are within the terms of the directive . |
| 25 | These are commercial decisions and British Steel 's actions are within the terms of the guarantees that it has given . |
| 26 | Some of those cases are before the courts at the moment . |
| 27 | Perhaps the nearest the British have got to a building like this has been in the pages of The Eagle . |
| 28 | And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much . |
| 29 | Whereas nuclear weaponry had effectively only been in the hands of the U.S.A. , the development of such weapons by other nations had been increasing , so at a meeting , in December 1962 , at Nassau , Prime minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy , hammered out an agreement whereby Britain abandoned its plans for ‘ Skybolt ’ in return for the U.S.A. ‘ Polaris ’ missile for use by British nuclear submarines . |
| 30 | It had earlier been in the hands of the Beard family for around a century . |