Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun pl] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The bulk of the chicks ' diet consists of leaf-eating caterpillars from oak trees , particularly those of the green oak tortrix , and these are at their best in the few weeks after the leaf buds come out .
2 What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase .
3 ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born .
4 Rearing and plunging through bravura passagework and revelling in every opportunity for the richest variety of voicing and texture , he makes the many years since the work 's first performance roll away .
5 Many of Innocent 's pronouncements on written record , on the appeal procedure ( the case to be returned to the former judges if the objection proved unreasonable and the appellant to be condemned to pay the costs ) , and on intermediary judgments jostled with other decisions among the decrees of the Lateran Council .
6 Evaluating the effects of regional policy bristles with the same difficulties as the evaluation of any other large-scale government policy .
7 Where a licensing board has refused an application for a new licence in respect of any premises , the board shall not , within two years of its refusal , entertain a subsequent application for a new licence in respect of the same premises unless the board , at the time of refusing the first-mentioned application , makes a direction to the contrary .
8 On is that a recombinant gp160 envelope glycoprotein precursor from HIV-1 produced by MicroGeneSys in a baculovirus expression system does not bind strongly to the CD4 receptor ; and the other is that this recombinant gp160 does not stimulate the same antibodies as the HIV-1 virus does in natural infection .
9 A poem is good because of its emotional content and the feeling of the poet which is placed in the symbols of words , and the true joy of poetry is in feeling the same emotions as the poet .
10 That 's roughly about the same hours as the government 's just decided to spend on sending the Parent 's Charter to every household in Britain , I think that 's gon na cost over two million as well .
11 The big boys of power boating were here in the two litre class … using the same engines as the Formula One racers but without the extra tweaking .
12 Now , it seems , the meteorites may not have the same origins as the Earth .
13 The urban ramifications of massive economic restructuring in the 1980s did not produce the same effects as the legitimacy crisis of welfare state capitalism in the cities of the 1960s and 1970s .
14 As the company is worth less than £30 million , it does not come under the same rules as the water authority when privatised .
15 Outside the front door of the school stood a line of teachers wearing the same robes as the Headmaster .
16 Each copy is the same as the original , and has the same properties as the original .
17 If he blames the paradigm for any failure to solve a problem , he will be open to the same charges as the carpenter who blames his tools .
18 But while in Rome ius honorarium was administered in the same courts as the ius civile , in England law and equity , until the judicature Act 1873 came into effect in 1875 , were administered in different courts .
19 It operates on the same lines as the rest of the prison , with the same rules and system of privileges and punishments .
20 The uprising continued along the same lines as the bread riots which had been rife in Russia at that time and so the Tsarina was worried but thinks everything will be alright and informed the Tsar , who was away inspecting troops , to this effect .
21 Lay the curtain out flat with the interlining uppermost and apply the hemmed lining to it in the same way as for Lined Curtains , but lockstitching along the same lines as the interlining and along all seams .
22 ‘ We follow along the same lines as the department of paintings and the result will be a collection of sculpture … . enjoyable to view ’ , Curator-in-Chief Mr Gaborit said .
23 There were plans to revive it and turn it into an Ulster Loyalist pressure group when a leading member , Archibald Whitmore , an ex-member of the Ulster Volunteer Force , announced to influential people at the Bath Club that he planned to develop the BF in Ireland along the same lines as the movement in 1914 .
24 Computer people seem to have great status in the eyes of top management and are not governed by the same codes as the rest of the company .
25 Within a few years of transfer to the South Metropolitan system , all these cars had the headlamps moved from the canopy front to the usual position on the dash , one reason being that it enabled them to carry advertisements in the same positions as the rest of the fleet .
26 Second , educational research operates under the same principles as the rest of the service : for example , codes of practice in relation to gender , race or social class must be strictly adhered to .
27 This follows the same principles as the Crown Scheme but for self-catering accommodation .
28 been organized , in many instances , on the same principles as the factory or office production line , and ’ … staffed by serried ranks of detail workers whose pay scales , if they are better than those of factory operatives or clerical workers , are perhaps not so good as those of craftsmen , and who dispose of little more working independence and authority than the production worker .
29 Many deficiencies can be made good from alternative sources : time and again the Valor Ecclesiasticus , compiled barely a decade later , gives virtually the same values as the survey for Church properties .
30 ‘ … the biogeographer may study the same phenomena as the ecologist , but he usually places as much emphasis on the distributional aspects as on the environmental relationships in this study .
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