Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paintings , drawings , and portraits are other useful pictorial sources , and for the Middle Ages the decorations and embellishments in medieval manuscripts , books of hours and church panels form another excellent pictorial source . |
| 2 | If it were not for the hollow bones the 30-ton creature would have required inordinate amounts of energy , and thus more food , to move around . |
| 3 | It also becomes more specific and for the higher potencies the remedy selection has to be more accurate for the remedy to work . |
| 4 | For the regional banks the ratio increased from 64% to 68% over the same period . |
| 5 | The fact that the people involved who killed Chai in the snackbar fight were mostly ‘ unemployed youths ’ , seemed to emphasise for the young intellectuals the disrespect for knowledge prevalent in a money-orientated society . |
| 6 | But for the largest banks the whole business has meant big pickings … ’ |
| 7 | In fairness it should be added that for the female guests the question of rooms was as much an affair of space as of rank , since many arrived with anything up to 25 pieces of luggage , clear proof that at Compiègne , unlike Fontainebleau , style played a primary role . |
| 8 | For the smarter operators the conventional recommendations of consultants , echoed across interminable seminars , lose their sense of urgency . |
| 9 | I suppose for the early settlers the smaller tarns such as those on Widdale , Baugh Fell and Whernside looked like tears on the face of the fell . |
| 10 | For the early empiricists the answers taken in conjunction with other facts about the social structure add up to a description of a particular society . |
| 11 | Although for the upper classes the Pax Romana in the age of the Antonines ( second century AD ) came as a great opportunity to concentrate on and uphold the customs of their local town or district , for humbler men it Provided wider horizons and unprecedented opportunities for travel . |
| 12 | 12.01 am , Richmond and Barnes : For the Liberal Democrats the story in Richmond and Barnes has so far been ‘ so near but yet so far ’ . |
| 13 | For the full-time units the experience of South Wales was perhaps typical — high stocking rates , small fields , ageing farmers or parents , and old buildings all contributed to the extra work load anticipated in the future . |
| 14 | Also under discussion were the wording of the US State Department memorandum of understanding and " letters of assurances " which would define for the various parties the procedure of the peace conference , the terms of participation and US policy towards it . |
| 15 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 16 | A vastly increased supply of turf and logs was required for the many fires the occasion demanded . |
| 17 | However , for the individual readers the impact of reading of reports of sex crime in the national press is likely to be more important in moulding their view of what is happening in the nation . |
| 18 | For the individual blocs the falling output-capital ratios were rather greater ( 10–20 per cent ) and thus contributed significantly to falls in profitability . |
| 19 | For the remaining junctions the transitions will be staggered and result in a B II phosphate facing a B I phosphate . |
| 20 | For the Japanese students the shameful dream may not be confined to these topics — for instance many of their dreams about failing examinations or their schooling in general may have been intrinsically shameful , and they reported both of these more often than the Americans . |
| 21 | Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP , Sirimavo Bandaranaike l. , Anura Bandaranaike national organizer ) ; Sri Lanka Mahajana Party ( SLMP , Ossie Abeygoonasekara l. , part of the USA in 1988 ) ; Sri Lankan Moslem Conference ( SLMC ) ; Tamil United Liberation Front ( TULF , K. Padmanabha sec. -gen. , Vardharaja Perumal l. ) ; for the 1989 elections the TULF front included the Eelam People 's Revolutionary Liberation Front ( EPRLF ) ; United Socialist Alliance ( USA , Vasudeva Nanayakkara l. ) a grouping formed in 1988 and including the Communist Party and the historically Trotskyite Lauka Sama Samaja Party ( LSSP ) and Nava Sama Samaja Party ( NSSP ) . |
| 22 | To pay for the additional checks the new MoT test now costs £24 . |
| 23 | McDonald 's recruitment officer Christina Pellini , who is hiring trainee managers for the 50 units the company plans to open this year , uses Springboard once or twice a month because ‘ it provides good quality people ’ , she said . |
| 24 | For the 60 films the mean value of P(A) was 0.70 ( range 0.43 to 0.96 ) and the mean B was 3.21 ( range 2.00 to 4.83 ) . |
| 25 | For the 60 films the mean P(A) was 0.75 ( range 0.44 to 1.00 ) and the mean B was 3.49 ( range 1.83 to 5.10 ) . |
| 26 | For the Chinese communists the memories of the atrocities of the Sino-Japanese War were very real and the fears of a resurgent Japan appreciable . |
| 27 | If for the Frankfurt School the problem to be dealt with was the relation of the phenomena of fascism , and particularly Auschwitz , to the ideals of the enlightenment and the progress of reason , for the French poststructuralists the historical perspective was similarly long . |
| 28 | For the abnormal subareas the highest efficiency was with a percentage of abnormal areas of 0.033 or more ( sensitivity 0.65 , specificity 1.0 ) . |
| 29 | ( His introduction of lime juice ( and hence vitamin C ) into the sailors ' daily rations cured them of scurvy and gained for the British tars the nickname of ‘ limeys ’ . ) |
| 30 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |