Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interpretation put forward here is not fundamentally different from that offered by Jaynes when he suggested that a tendency to emit ( a fractional version of ) the response acquired in the first stage would serve as a mediating process in the second , and that the salience of the mediator would depend on the magnitude of the initial response of which it was a fraction . |
| 2 | If you put a spot of light right in the centre of this cell 's receptive field you get the response shown in the second column : when the spot goes on ( see stimulus trace at the bottom ) you get a burst of impulses , so it is called an ‘ on-centre unit ’ . |
| 3 | Focus on the battle to win the First Division title and the struggle to stay in the Second |
| 4 | Probably the most effective and most common scoring technique in karate is the gyaku-zuki , or reverse punch , which the beginner learns in the second week of his basic training , and provides a good illustration of the need constantly to return to practising the basics . |
| 5 | The winner came in the 64th minute thanks to a combination of fine attacking play from Jason Soloman and inept defending by Boro . |
| 6 | ‘ Once the Springboks tired , the tide turned in the second half . |
| 7 | But the tide turned in the second game of the second set when Graf finally broke serve on her fourth break point . |
| 8 | Or was that where all the money went in the first place ? |
| 9 | The damage caused in the Second World War has been repaired on the exterior , which now looks well . |
| 10 | The lawn to the south of the house , shown on a plan by Bourginion , the French surveyor employed to redesign the garden , corresponds almost exactly with the description given in the second edition ( 1733 ) of the Dictionary , where Miller insists on frequent mowing and rolling to keep the grass in good order . |
| 11 | Its quantitative response , when correctly terminated , is governed by the parameter introduced in the last section and substitution of and establishes that Because u can not be positive at any frequency , there is no range of frequency that corresponds to inequality ( 9.18 ) and equation ( 9.17 ) is inapplicable . |
| 12 | That would imply that the recession started in the second quarter of 1990 , which it clearly did not , because output rose between the first and second quarters of 1990 . |
| 13 | Although the classic definition of a recession is two successive quarters of falling real GNP — implying that the recession started in the fourth quarter of last year — the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ) , America 's official business-cycle watcher , uses a different yardstick : the monthly indicators for employment , industrial production , real business sales and real personal disposable income . |
| 14 | Observatories go back many centuries , perhaps even to Stonehenge ; but modern observatories in the West began in the sixteenth century . |
| 15 | The only knockdown of the fight came in the 11th round when the champion floored Close with a short , right upper cut . |
| 16 | All three thought it right that the fight continued in the eleventh round when McDonnell 's right eye was all but closed , though the fighter admitted he could not see from that eye . |
| 17 | So I think if you 've got the creativity to write in the first place , you just need to change , not so much the instrument , but maybe change the tuning or the pitch . |
| 18 | Probably the best illustration of the assisting method in action during the course comes in the fifth session when Somerset practitioners take the logic of working with the problem in the community to its ultimate conclusion . |
| 19 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 20 | Both rounds were marked by a very low turnout , with only 20.87 per cent of the electorate participating in the second round . |
| 21 | The elections were thus marked by a high rate of abstention : only 38.89 per cent of the electorate voted in the first round and 33.38 per cent in the second . |
| 22 | Like the cross-dressing explored in the last chapter , gender inversion remains controversial because it allegedly only inverts , rather than displaces , the gender binary . |
| 23 | The practice arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century within the ruling class . |
| 24 | If the searched-for item is less than the mid-point ( for words this means the searched-for item comes earlier in the alphabet than the item at the mid-point ) , then the search continues in the first half of the structure , if it is greater , the search continues in the second half of the structure . |
| 25 | If the searched-for item is less than the mid-point ( for words this means the searched-for item comes earlier in the alphabet than the item at the mid-point ) , then the search continues in the first half of the structure , if it is greater , the search continues in the second half of the structure . |
| 26 | The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life . |
| 27 | The Regno consisted in the twelfth century ( and for most of the thirteenth ) of two parts : the island of Sicily and the southern half of the Italian peninsular , the mainland . |
| 28 | The other was the rule developed in the seventeenth century , whereby claims on a bill of exchange are treated as separate from those on the underlying transaction . |
| 29 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 30 | Just as the architecture built in the last thirty years in East and West Berlin reflects the different societies , so will what is to be built , play a part in determining the future of the united city . |