Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introductory remarks found at the beginning of a book , usually by someone who is not the author of the book . |
| 2 | The total hours spent on the carriage so far are 226 hours 30 minutes . |
| 3 | Is it only the additional or marginal cost to the employer providing the service for the employee , or is it a proportionate part of the total costs incurred by the employer in providing the facility to be used both by the public and by the employee ? |
| 4 | Although the total numbers used in the USA are vastly higher , Rollin ( 1981 : 91 ) gives a figure of around 100 million for 1980 but this had reportedly declined by about 10 per cent by 1988 , the percentage breakdowns are remarkably similar . |
| 5 | Paid-in capital by member countries amounts to about 10 per cent of subscribed capital and represents only a small part of the total funds obtained by the EIB . |
| 6 | the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and |
| 7 | the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and |
| 8 | the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and |
| 9 | the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and |
| 10 | You , you know that paper I showed you the , the reason that we 're making these recordings , it says so er words , so the normal words go on the state about and so they 'll know , they 'll know what the language was , why , in the nineteen nineties |
| 11 | In other words , if the destructive forces operating on the bone assemblages are so great as to destroy some of the mandibles and maxillae , but not great enough to destroy the teeth , the ensuing sample can be expected to contain an excess of isolated teeth over the numbers expected from the numbers of jaws . |
| 12 | His mother was leafing through a huge pile of correspondence , the wire-framed spectacles perched on the end of her nose threatening to fall off at any moment , while Senga sat beneath the window , copying verses from an open Bible . |
| 13 | Perhaps this length of time is required for the long-chain polymers to stabilize after the succussion process ends . |
| 14 | Since the Library 's automated system ( VTLS ) is based on US MARC format , it was decided in November 1989 that it would be sensible for the Library to adopt the descriptive rules prepared by the Library of Congress : the Bibliographic Description of Rare Books ( BDRB ) published in 1981 . |
| 15 | Kahnweiler , who himself often helped the painters to choose titles for their paintings , in Der Weg zum Kubismus emphasizes the importance of the descriptive titles attached to the works as further means of enabling the spectator to reconstruct fully the subjects . |
| 16 | Past the farm where the short-term prisoners work under the guard of rifles and dogs , past the fields where beet and potato sprout from the long-used soil . |
| 17 | The junior recruits sit on the edge of the parade ground to witness the parade and to learn what they must achieve after a further four weeks ' training . |
| 18 | Some carrying on the narrow canals continued until the early 1960s . |
| 19 | There are two spring widths : 1.75 inches and 2.5 inches — the narrow ones fitted to the rear of and some of the fronts of Series One 80 inch . |
| 20 | The narrow bands running across the middle are from foreground gas in the disk . |
| 21 | This was before the building of New Bridge Road and it now seems impossible that the large convoy of vehicles could ever make its way over the narrow bridges leading into the city . |
| 22 | For the corporate executives could be viewed ( as their name suggests ) as executives implementing the broad objectives set by the directors as the legislature . |
| 23 | He turned to rest his head on the high stone mantel above the fire and she could see the broad shoulders outlined by the fiery light in the grate . |
| 24 | The final stage in preparing the ground for the elaboration of particular arguments for specific groups is to put forward the broad arguments presented by the National Curriculum History Working Group in their formal report in April 1990 . |
| 25 | Remember to plug the top of the water-jar securely with cotton-wool so there is no chance of any of the hatching caterpillars falling into the water . |
| 26 | Kopyion had sat opposite him in the hovercar , contemplating the momentous events unravelling on the planet . |
| 27 | The prevailing winds originate from the south and south-west , a consequence of the frequency with which depressions ( with their anti-clockwise circulation ) pass to the north of the islands . |
| 28 | This is not to advocate socialist or any other sort of indoctrination , but to stress the importance of studying — via community education provision — alternative perspectives on reality socialist , libertarian , feminist or whatever — in order to counteract the prevailing orthodoxies portrayed through the media and other agencies of socialisation . |
| 29 | Kate will always care enough to make sure the fridge is full of food and the airing cupboard full of clean linen and the beds changed regularly and the carpets swept and the dishes washed and the lunch cooked and the rats and the lice and the assorted nasties consigned to the dustbin of history . |
| 30 | The assistant cooks heaved on the rope and the cook pot lurched slowly backwards . |