Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , though , the procedure of the auctioneer was somewhat different , for at first the most attractive girls were auctioned to the highest bidders and then a sort of reverse auction took place in which the unattractive ones were distributed : instead of ascending , the bidding descended until the man prepared to accept the least payment got the girl . |
| 2 | The latter course kept the family together , a consideration which became increasingly important during the first half of the twentieth century , but which was believed to be open to abuse unless the state assumed the role of the male breadwinner and insisted on good household management and sexual fidelity . |
| 3 | The latter document re-emphasized the need for a national curriculum framework and for the delineation of a common core of learning for all pupils . |
| 4 | The latter group had the most difficulties and the greatest number of demands from the children . |
| 5 | Naturally enough , the latter group interpreted the first sentence appropriately but were unable to report what they heard through the unattended channel . |
| 6 | The legal profession in England and Wales is divided into solicitors and barristers , with the latter being considered the senior branch of the profession . |
| 7 | The latter move prompted the government to retaliate by establishing a blockade around the island and withdrawing all services from the inhabitants . |
| 8 | The paradox was that the more ideology stressed the role of sex within conjugality , the more it was necessary to describe and regulate those forms of sexuality which were outside it . |
| 9 | In UN parlance the former classification entailed the right to self-determination , while the latter generally did not . |
| 10 | On March 7 Mogadishu radio reported that a USC-sponsored " peace committee " would travel to the Gedo region ( the south-western homeland of Siyad Barre ) to explain that the area " would not come under attack as long as the former dictator left the region " . |
| 11 | The former system involved the operative having to attach more than 20 bands at a time to hold a mould in position . |
| 12 | The former skipper had the misfortune of conceding the own-goal which gave Swindon a play-off victory at Wembley two years ago but he still led the team out in the First Division the next season . |
| 13 | The former Start-forward pounced the ball in the net and Norway was ahead on the Sun Devil Stadium . |
| 14 | The former subgroup showed the same upward shift observed for the polyp group as a whole , but the differences , with respect to normal controls were even more noticeable , involving significant increases not only in the labelling indices of compartments 3 and 4+5 , but also in the total labelling index . |
| 15 | The second prohibited steps order prevented the mother from having any verbal or personal contact or contact by correspondence with the father and in the same way prohibited the father from having any form of contact with the mother . |
| 16 | A page-one column in the same newspaper admired the play 's moral honesty , insisting : ‘ It is worth Prime Minister Kaifu 's time to see the musical before his trip to South-East Asia . ’ |
| 17 | The same spirit produced the recent publication of a posthumous work by a 35-year-old French writer , Gilles Barbedette , who died a year ago in Paris before he could correct the proofs . |
| 18 | To some extent , though less so than with survey researchers , the same spirit informed the early exponents of participant observation . |
| 19 | The second contract could not be ignored since it was not an ‘ independent and disconnected ’ transaction ; the same buyer bought the same goods from the same seller . |
| 20 | The same act gave the prince a life interest in the remaining moiety , so deferring the inheritance of the other heir , John Lord Howard . |
| 21 | The same act gave the prince a life interest in the remaining moiety , so deferring the inheritance of the other heir , John Lord Howard . |
| 22 | The same breed topped the heifer department when Francis Curragh , Donaghadee , sold an animal , ten days old for £162 . |
| 23 | In most districts the same person held the posts of justice of the peace and police magistrate , but it was necessary for the complainant to determine in which capacity he wanted this official to act . |
| 24 | The same order changed the colour of the last area of facing on the khaki jacket — the buttoned shoulder strap — from sky-blue to white , to bring it into line with the colour of the officers ' transverse shoulder straps , the NCOs ' chevrons , and the trouser stripes . |
| 25 | And in the same square stood the parish church of Santa Croce , built at about the same time as the castle . |
| 26 | And for every tyme that the same shalbe omytted the partie that shalbe in the fault there of shall forfett to the said Churche iiis. iiiid. to be employed on the reparation of the same Churche . |
| 27 | At Stirling , James IV was to create an even more magnificent hall , of unprecedented size and great beauty ; and the same king began the palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh . |
| 28 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 29 | Indeed on two occasions a teacher accepted the question without comment while another in the same school mentioned the extreme dangers of its use . |
| 30 | The safety-belt held me back as I jerked forward and at the same second heard the ghastly clash of metal hitting metal . |