Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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1 | Against this view of love as contract , Cave , in The Birthday Party , was almost alone in reinvoking love as malady , monologue , abject dependence , whose ultimate expression could only be violence : the recurrent theme of girl-murder , or at the opposite pole the paroxysm of desire in ‘ Zoo Music Girl ’ , ‘ Oh ! |
2 | For many people it is all too easy to put on weight , and for the vast majority the problem is caused by a simple energy imbalance — too much food is consumed and too little energy expended by exercise or work . |
3 | The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe . |
4 | Paintings , drawings , and portraits are other useful pictorial sources , and for the Middle Ages the decorations and embellishments in medieval manuscripts , books of hours and church panels form another excellent pictorial source . |
5 | Mountbatten saw Charles for what he was and liked what he saw , and for the first time the growing Prince was given some real sense of his own worth . |
6 | This was the initial running of the world 's oldest Classic under commercial sponsorship , and for the first time the winner 's prize money topped £100,000 . |
7 | Soon the mousy man became exhausted by struggling with the suitcase and for the first time the Feldwebel carried it for him . |
8 | Overall control was returned to the Inspector-General , and for the first time the jurisdiction of the regular police was extended to cover entire districts . |
9 | Immediately — before Edmund 's soliloquy , Edgar , still in disguise , has given the letter to Albany ( 40–50 ) , and for the first time the forces of good have a superior knowledge over the hypocrites . |
10 | But one winter she got flu , her work was sapped and for the first time the critics were unkind . |
11 | Wilcock arrived in London , and for the first time the two men met . |
12 | There were further clashes between police and fundamentalists on Dec. 29 at a mosque in a Tunis suburb , and for the first time the official news agency , Tunis Afrique Presse ( TAP ) , reported the incidents . |
13 | The party turned around to face him and for the first time the fat man moved . |
14 | It also becomes more specific and for the higher potencies the remedy selection has to be more accurate for the remedy to work . |
15 | The village like atmosphere of the Leidseplein ; the hustle and bustle of trams , canal boats , street musicians and organ players outside the Central Station ; the energetic buzz of the mildly naughty Rembrandtplein ; the peace and calm of the traditional Jordaan area and for the very brave the decidedly naughty but small red light district . |
16 | A servant arrived with some freshly made jus de citron and for the next half-hour the three of them remained with heads bent over the materials which would do so much to enhance Félix 's English collection . |
17 | Ah , but you 're going to be getting some extra police officers by taking them off er , paperwork , er you 're gon na get two thousand three hundred I see in the press , well that as shown , that of course will be twenty three , but if anybody here thinks the Chief Constable 's gon na produce twenty three new police officers through reductions in paperwork and through the other initiatives the Home Secretary has announced , well I do n't believe them , and we shall have to wait and see . |
18 | In the cold war climate of the early 1950s only Perón 's Argentina showed any sign of having seen the merits of this argument ( see chapter 6 ) , and during the following decade the political costs of Moscow 's connections with a militant Castro further obstructed commercial relations with the Latin American mainland . |
19 | Later , in the autumn of 1912 , Picasso moved to Montparnasse , and during the following years the differences in their work began to become apparent , but the same friendly relations were maintained . |
20 | In 1981 there were thirty-seven meetings of his Cabinet and during the first term the flow of routine domestic-policy business was routed through seven cabinet committees . |
21 | Jones referred to ‘ cranks — long-haired men and short-haired women ’ who formed the ( British ) Socialist Party , and explained that the title of NSP better represented the time and circumstances than SDI' because ‘ social democrat was associated with Germany and Germanic thought , and during the present war the action of most of the social democrats of Germany had made the term stink in the nostrils of most people ’ ( SE 1 June 18 ) . |
22 | The secular and religious authority enjoyed by this clan was recognized over the years in an ever wider area of the country , and during the seventh century the head of the clan used the title of emperor or empress on the Chinese model . |
23 | During a particular week the fisherman sells the farmer two fish at £4 per fish , and during the same week the farmer sells the fisherman eight loaves at £1 per loaf . |
24 | And during the sixteenth century the Crown exploited this massive reservoir of land and labour to effect a major increase in state power . |
25 | Carinthia and Carniola were acquired in 1335 , and during the next half-century the Tyrol , Istria , part of the Vorarlberg and the city of Trieste were added . |
26 | A fractured skull and haemorrhaging of the brain were the causes of death , and after the official inquest the Coroner at Epsom recorded a verdict of death by misadventure . |
27 | Finally , the closure raft inched carefully into the remaining gap , and after the briefest hesitation the ramps dropped into their receiving lugs and were pinned . |
28 | But even there they were not to be left alone , and after the last campaign the conquest ended ignominiously as it had begun with the summary execution of Tupac Amaru , thirty-nine years after Atahualpa , his uncle . |
29 | The course is lined with dusty palm trees ; between races , a lorry sprays the sand track ; and past the finishing line the poor horses , slavering in 100 degrees , are doused with buckets of water until their sides foam . |
30 | And of the aching gap the loss of his beautiful daughter has left in all their lives . |