Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though explicitly Christian , ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ forms between the earlier and later work a bridge over which the reader ( with access to the gospel word ) may cross into the release of Christianity , the new birth ; but , denied that access , the speaker of the poem can only seek relief in death to escape from having to return to the old way in which he is ‘ no longer at ease ’ . |
| 2 | Relating the story of the future Duke of Wellington in Self-Help , Samuel Smiles commented that the general had no intention of acting grandly or nobly , ‘ merely regarding the punctual payment of his debts as the best and most honourable mode of conducting his business . ’ |
| 3 | It would be expected that if there was no right field advantage for a stimulus then the RFA would be aproximately 0.5 as the values for the left and right visual field would be about the same . |
| 4 | Except where the bureaucracy rules through the military and so itself constitutes the executive branch of government , the executive and bureaucracy should not be confused . |
| 5 | Celebrity teams will be taking part in addition to many teams from local companies to raise funds for the blind and partially sighted in Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | Art offers ‘ substitutive satisfactions for the oldest and still most deeply felt cultural renunciations , and for that reason it serves as nothing else does to reconcile a man to the sacrifices he has made on behalf of civilization ’ . |
| 7 | I I 'm very grateful to the Secretary of State , erm is he aware that increasingly over this winter there have been examples of homes for the elderly and particularly nursing homes in the private sector without casting a valued judgement on the role of the private sector , er homes that are finding difficulty in the filling the beds because of policy that is being pursued in care in the community . |
| 8 | This seemingly contradictory combination of an extreme objectivity of vision with a strong vein of intimacy and personal humour emerges as one of the main characteristics of the classical and immediately pre-war Cubism of Picasso and Braque . |
| 9 | Polybius himself gives a hint when he says that Aulus Postumius " made Greek culture offensive in the eyes of the older and more distinguished Romans " . |
| 10 | If you visit a biochemistry laboratory , you will often find on the wall a ‘ metabolic chart ’ , usually supplied as an advertisement by a drug company , giving the names and chemical formulae of the thousand or more organic compounds commonly found in cells , connected by arrows indicating which substances can be directly transformed into which others . |
| 11 | The Frankfurt Assembly showed less the strength of the German middle class , more its vulnerability to the demands of the unpropertied and therefore its equivocation on the issue of democracy and its dependence on the armed power of Prussia and Austria . |
| 12 | Only where the demands of the Anglo-Norman and then the Angevin empire dictated it was there regular delegation of the prince 's judicial rights to an official ; even then , this delegation was revoked when the king-duke visited . |
| 13 | Armstrong could also be among the all-weather winners with the improving and well weighted Quattro in the Ascom Tele-Nova Handicap at Lingfield tomorrow . |
| 14 | I think he scored about 9 goals in the 5 or so matches he played in the youth cup , and 2 more in the senior ! |
| 15 | At the same time , there was an increase in the number of elderly people seeking retirement homes in the cheaper and more attractive areas away from the more urbanized regions ( Law and Warnes , 1976 ) . |
| 16 | All new patterns , but with a wider selection of weights of yarn for all seasons suitability and with styles from the simplest and most stylish to high-drama pieces for electronics . |
| 17 | The torturers had chained him to a wall , applying searing hot pokers to the softest and most tender parts of his body . |
| 18 | Thus the Church offered opportunities to the ambitious as well as to the devout , although it would be a mistake to regard it as an egalitarian institution . |
| 19 | After each auction , the Bank publishes details of the average yield on accepted bids and the yields on the highest and lowest accepted bids . |
| 20 | They are comparable with the Italian ricercari of the period , with regular fugal entries at the fifth and well morticed cadential joins . |
| 21 | Inside modern technology : how it works ( Sidgwick & Jackson , pp 185 , £9.95 ) describes the technologies of the 1980s and beyond . |
| 22 | The new houses of the 18th and earlier 19th centuries were built of small rough bricks made in Patrington 's own brickyards . |
| 23 | The majority of potentially battle-winning systems are pursued at or beyond the frontiers of existing technology where the risks of failure are high ; where cost estimates are notoriously uncertain ; and hence where the judgments of the soundest and most experienced men can turn out to be fallacious . |
| 24 | Probably HMI 's greatest influence was Aspects of Secondary Education ( 1978 ) , which first commented so authoritatively and adversely on the short-changing of youngsters through the unfettered and badly guided option system at the end of the third year of secondary education . |
| 25 | The book 's aim is to help guide local communities through the various and often daunting processes involved when tackling local environmental problems such as open space . |
| 26 | Out takes place at an unspecified time several decades after the unexplained but presumably cataclysmic event known as the ‘ displacement ’ . |
| 27 | The oil price and supply uncertainties of the 1970s and more recently in 1991 triggered awareness of the problems of depending on imported energy supplies . |
| 28 | The search for the nature of the distinctively gay sensibility can be productively redirected as an exploration of the limitations of the aesthetic as conventionally understood , especially the way it is said to transcend the socio-political , and used in support of the proposition that discrimination is the essence of culture . |
| 29 | The gifts offered no doubt included the alms of the faithful as well as bread and wine . |
| 30 | Armagnac 's brother , the archbishop of Auch , had acknowledged that his temporalities were held from the crown of France , and Capetian lawyers tried to argue that the lordships of Armagnac and Fézensac were fiefs of the archbishopric and therefore subject to the superior lordship of the French crown . |