Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For were not the brothels and whorehouses of Panama City and pre-revolutionary Havana developed for the most part for the benefit of American troops ? |
| 2 | Mr Strachan 's time in office coincided for the most part with the tenure as Librarian of the late Professor Denis Roberts . |
| 3 | Er , generally and for the most part and for the most part at the end of the day they 'll come up with completely irrelevant er things . |
| 4 | Restrictive practices concerned with crewing nationality are to continue for the most part until the end of the century . |
| 5 | And if given to us as actual temptations , the rather lure of the church , the Reverend Simon Stephen Daedalus SJ , and the lure of the flesh ‘ He closed his eyes , surrendering himself to her body and mind , conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips ’ . |
| 6 | The words were sharp but there was none the less warmth in the queen-dowager 's voice . |
| 7 | Figure 9c shows the space which the same algorithm would explore if it were given the backwards version of the task . |
| 8 | First , we have evidence from Renée Baillargeon ( see the Bremner volume referred to above ) that babies as young as three or four months are able to ‘ represent ’ , in some sense , the continuing existence of an invisible object behind a screen because they show ‘ surprise ’ when this out-of-sight object does not resist the backwards movement of the screen . |
| 9 | The main axes of the centuriation were somewhat improbably and completely artificially taken as the eastward continuation of the line of Watling Street , from before its deviation slightly southwards at Salters Cross on its approach to the suburb at Strood and to the Medway bridge , and the extension northwards of the alignment of the road from Maidstone to Rochester . |
| 10 | One of the objectives of this work was to trace the south-westward extension of the Highland Boundary Fault . |
| 11 | This we have called antecedent , a way of seeing causation which calls for the use of the to infinitive to signify the before/after relation between the cause and the effect . |
| 12 | Click on the up arrow of the palette box to select 2 into the current colour box and repeat this process of selecting the shade for this colour . |
| 13 | Click on the up arrow above the colour box until the figure 1 appears in the large box above the arrow . |
| 14 | A special telegraph wire is fixed on the wall of the tunnel on the up side of the line about 5 feet from the ground . |
| 15 | These usually run sponsorship schemes that enable you to contribute to the cost of the up keep of the pony of your choice . |
| 16 | I accept a figure of sixty thousand pounds as representing the plaintiff 's notional house in such circumstances and a hundred and twenty thousand pounds as being the probably cost of the bungalow the plaintiff is to purchase . |
| 17 | All eight members of the board of the Corporation were appointed by the Governor , and a director was made responsible for the day-today management of the service . |
| 18 | And her article , published in the bi-monthly journal of the Institution of Nuclear Engineers , has won the institution 's Pinkerton Award . |
| 19 | But the National Grid reported ‘ no discernible difference ’ in the amount of power used after the 3pm broadcast of the speech on BBC1 and ITV . |
| 20 | The crudity of : could just be an unfortunate clumsiness on the part of a romance versifier , but the uncourtly range of the lover 's plotting : In any cunnes wise |
| 21 | On Sunday , the day will start with the 10.25am departure of the train , from Sheffield Park Station , to Horsted Keynes . |
| 22 | On the left hand side of the front panel is the on/off switch with the strobe display alongside . |
| 23 | The on/off switch at the top of the main handle is very easy to operate with the thumb . |
| 24 | The atmosphere in the almost semidarkness of the cottage was very homely ; the food was good , a typical French meal of roast chicken , vegetables and roast potatoes . |
| 25 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 26 | Parishes can learn much from the qualities of discipline and prayerfulness and a proper other-worldliness which mark the dally recitation of the Office , often in unaccompanied singing . |
| 27 | Despite the undeniably quality of the product , the firm could n't weather the wastrel 's dissipations . |
| 28 | Arguable the strongest-ever candidate for the title of the world 's least-successful Formula 1 car , the Life L190/1 with its radical W12 engine , has passed into the history books where it will be fortunate to make more than a footnote . |
| 29 | The back foot is placed on the leeward side of the board with a number of factors ( such as the weight of the sailor and the length of the board ) determining where you place it . |
| 30 | Fig 64 The tilted angle of the board indicates that all the weight is now on the leeward side of the board , i e the right foot . |