Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] and [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 2 | The second was formally liquidated in Europe between 1848 and 1868 , though the situation of the impoverished and especially the landless peasantry in regions of large estates in southern and eastern Europe often remained semi-servile , in as much as it remained subject to overwhelming non-economic coercion . |
| 3 | 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dictated it was there regular delegation of the prince 's judicial rights to an official ; even then , this delegation was revoked when the king-duke visited . |
| 4 | The tentacle pores are small ; those of the first and sometimes the second arm segment armed with two large , rounded tentacle scales , the others only have one . |
| 5 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 6 | ‘ The result is that our good companies are embarrassed and undermined by the behaviour of the bad and even the bad by the worst . ’ |
| 7 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 8 | This gives the slope of the CML and hence the measure could be used to position portfolio performance in the risk return space . |
| 9 | Most young children luckily will respond to the authority of a stranger and so the task is not as daunting as it sounds . |
| 10 | When contracts were exchanged , the conditions of sale would stipulate the time for the delivery of an abstract and thereafter the time for the raising of requisitions upon it . |