Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] the " in BNC.

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1 When hiring tools from HSS Hire Shops you only pay for the actual time the equipment is in use ; in addition you have the HAE assurance that the tools you select are regularly maintained , and are in a safe condition .
2 For the middle class the mid-nineteenth century was the golden era of the middle-aged , when men reached the peak of their careers , earnings and activity and physiological decline had not yet become obvious .
3 For the ordinary individual the concept man , or its local equivalent , refers to " people like us " and the extent of such a category is often very narrowly restricted .
4 For the photographer there 's a chance to win the coveted title of the Fuji Wedding Photographer of the Year , whilst for the featured couple the top prize is £1,000 .
5 For the 1990/91 session the rates are :
6 Even the formulation of a dualistic class division , Laclau and Mouffe have argued persuasively , is itself nothing less than a nostalgic attempt to recreate for the nineteenth century the imagined simplicity of the conditions of the aristocracy/bourgeoisie conflict of the French Revolution which had originally inspired Hegel .
7 For research purposes , the laboratory was just beginning to be separated from the kitchen ; but for the nineteenth century the centres were the laboratory and the museum .
8 For the periodontal index the results reflected the findings with the periodontal classification .
9 Soviet negotiators had been eager to preserve for the Soviet Union the right to retain something close to 80 per cent of the Warsaw Pact total .
10 In the depth-first traversal for the above example the paragraphs would appear in the order p1 , p4 , p5 , p6 , p2 , p3 .
11 For the right eye the converse is true .
12 For the right hand the process is reversed .
13 In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region .
14 For the second time the French set out to catch the English .
15 Very shortly the Court of Appeal is to hear for the second time the cases of James Robinson , Michael Hickey and Vincent Hickey , found guilty in November 1979 of the murder in 1978 of Carl Bridgewater , the newspaper boy , in Staffordshire .
16 But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life .
17 Indeed it had never occurred to him to sell bits of Hatherley to keep the paper going any more than he had considered using the profits of the paper , in the years when there were some , to pay for the substantial renovation the house had required .
18 More importantly , by reforming the tax structure , the Tories have brought down marginal tax rates further still , even compared with 1979 ; for example for the average earner the marginal rate including VAT has fallen from 49 p.c. then to 45 p.c. today .
19 For the average funeral the pall-bearer was expected to perform his duties en route as well as within the church ; whereas at the funerals of the great , the pall-bearers were only called into service once the coffin was at the church and ready to proceed up the nave .
20 On the hills above the town , amongst cool , dark pines , is Albuhera Barracks , the present station for the 1st Battalion the Royal Scots .
21 For the Western church the removal of the African church meant the removal of a permanent focus of fruitful tension .
22 Rebecca West referred in 1913 to health visitors as an ‘ inadequate and slightly offensive substitute offered to the poor woman for the skilled service the rich can command ’ .
23 Perhaps Spinoza could have strengthened it in various ways , by saying that people can not on odd occasions deliberately act out of the character they try to give their lives , without destroying that character , and that for the rational person the character of a life which includes good relations with other people at large is essential for personal fulfilment .
24 However , whereas for the 55–59 age-group the fall in unemployment was compensated for by an increase in employment , as well as in sickness and disability , for the 60–64 age-group early retirement increased more substantially than employment .
25 For the fired person the act of dismissal can create even greater and more painful dissonance .
26 Their popularity resulted in Tiller getting a request not only to train the children and arrange the ballets but also to present a quartette of ‘ lady ’ dancers for the 1891 pantomime The Fair One with the Golden Locks at the Comedy Theatre , Manchester .
27 The 6 cyl is the best Land Rover to fit a V8 into as there is 6″ more room in the engine bay and the brakes are good enough for the extra power The only modification on the vehicle is to trim the side of the footwells to allow the exhaust manifolds to fit The prop gearbox etc remain as original
28 Obviously , the fewer carp competing for the available food the better the chance of reaching a worthwhile size .
29 Because there are so many desirable objectives to achieve for the convalescent patient the outcome of rehabilitative measures is difficult to quantify .
30 For low-income families , the urban consumer price index rose from 203 in 1980 to 733 in 1986 ; for the high-income group the figures were respectively 189 and 644 .
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