Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next to the shop in Culver Street were six Church almshouses which had been rebuilt in the eighteen-forties to replace the original dwellings . |
| 2 | Before the NHS was established , critics had noted that the ‘ inverse care law ’ seemed to apply : those regions in which the need for health care was the greatest had the fewest resources . |
| 3 | England in the 1640s saw the Copernican texts of Galileo , Kepler , and the Dutch astronomer Philip van Lansbergen ( 1561–1632 ) read with increasing approval . |
| 4 | The rich ignore the simplest things in the area of earning , making , keeping , regarding money , and the bear-leader forgot to put any receptacle for money on the ground in front of them . |
| 5 | The English held the principal castles , especially in the south-east , but they could not control the countryside and by May 1337 English power was limited to Lothian , the Borders and Dumfriesshire . |
| 6 | For just as the British rejected the multimillion-pound blandishments by Suchard three years ago on behalf of richer , more bitter European chocolate , so Continental consumers are largely unimpressed by UK products . |
| 7 | However , as in India , the British preferred the traditional leaders of society and emphasised the importance of the chiefs . |
| 8 | Before the British destroyed the surrounding buildings in 1857 , the Naqqar Khana gave on to an enclosed courtyard leading up to the Diwan-i-am , the forty-pillared Hall of Public Audience , the site of the Imperial Durbars . |
| 9 | This was inevitable : partisan warfare is confined to rough country and the French governed the great towns with little difficulty . |
| 10 | The more computer power is available , the faster business can be transacted , and the heavier become the competitive penalties for not having to hand the right information about your business and its environment . |
| 11 | Ironically , it was just as such images of contentment began to vanish that the taste for the picturesque caused the upper classes to fall in love with the idea of the cottage . |
| 12 | Japanese security houses such as Nomura now challenge such US financial giants as Merrill Lynch in their own back yard , while the US giants together with the Japanese challenge the European leaders each in their own chasse gardée . |
| 13 | The first CD lets you sing along with the Czech Symphony Orchestra and Prague Philharmonic Choir , while the second plays the full arias including vocal part . |
| 14 | In the second appeal the two agreements were interdependent . |
| 15 | The 52 chapters of the work ( Thomas , 1956 ) were organized in three parts : the first retrospective , elaborating the way in which man has changed the face of the earth ; the second reviewing the many ways in which processes have been modified ; and the third concerned with the prospect raised by the limits on the role of man . |
| 16 | The first concerns the limits to intervention for individual patients ; the second concerns the relative claims of older people and other citizens . |
| 17 | Again a number of points were made and the following represented the main points . |
| 18 | Answer guide : The following summarizes the main reasons why firms determine product costs : |
| 19 | The following gives the revised conditions of award for the new SVQs in Administration . |
| 20 | The following summarises the major considerations in respect of our ability to act in such a role : |
| 21 | The following indicates the current conditions of awards for SVQs in Business Administration . |
| 22 | The breed was already being exported to South Africa in the 1940s to improve the native cattle and it adapted well to a variety of climates and management systems . |
| 23 | Since any point on the diagonal makes the same intercepts on both scales any job whose line hits the diagonal has been completed . |
| 24 | Since any point on the diagonal makes the same intercepts on both scales any job whose line hits the diagonal has been completed . |
| 25 | The state must appear class-neutral , the better to preserve the long-run interests of the capitalist class . |
| 26 | The rectory , some hundred yards from St Andrew 's , was a high Victorian monstrosity , facing north , and perched on a small mound the better to catch the chilly winds of the Cotswold country . |
| 27 | Now it was the turn of the international statesman , the Man You Can Trust , settling back in his leather swivel chair , the body language just right , hands folded and head tilted the better to address the serious issues . |
| 28 | The feminist movement of the 1970s highlighted the restricted opportunities and expectations for women , especially for mothers . |
| 29 | The appeal of liturgical monastic religion can also be seen from the fact that when Ethelwold in the 960s expelled the married clergy from the church of Winchester in favour of celibate monks , three of the former clergy , Eadsige , Wulfige , and Wilstan , returned as celibates to the new communal life . |
| 30 | In fact , marsh plants and bacteria do n't act altruistically but symbiotically , the latter producing the inorganic salts that plants require for growth . |