Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb base] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cash-and-carry transactions used to determine the CTD bond for a given futures price can also be used to determine the fair price of the futures contract once the price of the CTD bond is known . |
| 2 | Therefore , any remaining lead of the futures price over the spot price is due to either new information being reflected first in the futures market ( price discovery ) , or to recording and reporting lags for the index . |
| 3 | Not only did the fragrances of the essences cover up the putrid smells of gangrenous wounds , they also suppressed them by retarding putrefaction . |
| 4 | Although this is not the same as decay or rotting , it can weaken the joints if the splits appear where the fixings are . |
| 5 | The wiper switch on the dash is starting to annoy me , as is the headlight flasher which refuses to flash with dipped beam on . |
| 6 | 10 Contractual rights The courts adopt substantially the same rules when implying an obligation of confidence into a contract and when finding an equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 7 | In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC . |
| 8 | Hour by hour the birds move up the wedge |
| 9 | The shape and structure of the houses project even the most individual activities into the social domain . |
| 10 | Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’ |
| 11 | Some streets are dimly lit by smoking torches , but the houses have only the shadowy light of candles and oil-lamps . |
| 12 | She holds clinics in the areas in and around Cape Town — the shanty towns begin a few miles outside the city and the houses improve markedly the nearer the centre you get — and Rose believes that the fruits of her success will start to become evident in two or three years . |
| 13 | The ordeal is over : the Namibians show off the Sicily Trophy after beating Hong Kong 26–12 in the catania final . |
| 14 | All of the planets circle around the Sun elliptically in the same direction as the Sun itself rotates . |
| 15 | All the stars in the galaxy are slowly moving around its centre just as the planets move around the Sun , taking some 200 million years — a ‘ galactic year ’ — to make a full circuit . |
| 16 | The servants watched the clock in the kitchen tick away the minutes . |
| 17 | For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings . |
| 18 | As the bells beat down the dark . |
| 19 | The story bring out the significance of dreams and their interpretation at this time . |
| 20 | During which the authorities relax even the few laws and rules that normally exist . |
| 21 | Astronomers tend to always think the probability is high because they think there are so many sites on which life could develop , but the biologists take completely the opposite view , that there are so many evolutionary pathways that lead to biological dead ends , that this outweighs the number of sites on which life could develop . |
| 22 | All the leaves that fall into the pond congregate around the loosened wire for me to collect up in a simple once daily netting session . |
| 23 | There are often three related questions : do recipient governments really want the project ? do the target beneficiaries ( such as smallholders ) within the country really want the project ? do the donor(s) , the recipient government and the beneficiaries expect roughly the same from the project ? |
| 24 | 3 A long funnel with a slippery surface inside so that the animals fall down the funnel . |
| 25 | The sensors pick up the change which is then fed back directly to alter the temperature or some other variable . |
| 26 | In the next two sections , we shall draw attention to effects on interpretation and consider informally the basis of the distinction ; in 2.4 and 2.5 we look at the grammatical consequences , and in the remainder of the chapter consider why the distinction may sometimes be hard to appreciate and argue that it is nevertheless quite generally available for the attributive adjectival construction . |
| 27 | The rocker switch on the side of my head clicked … work off , weekend on … stress off , mellow on … and sea air crackled static through my stale brain . |
| 28 | Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table . |
| 29 | Normally see as people as the cars come out the lights change . |
| 30 | ‘ The cars come down the bank there very quickly . |