Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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1 | Having borrowed money to maintain their vast estates they found that the estates were too inefficient to generate the income to pay back the loans . |
2 | ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’ |
3 | BIRKENHEAD 'S Queensway tunnel will be closed for major electrical works this week and Mersey Tunnels staff are taking the opportunity to spruce up the tube . |
4 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
5 | In any case , 100 Welsh players having the opportunity to take on the world champions and learn from them will do a lot of good for Welsh rugby . ’ |
6 | The District 's response was not to appoint a successor to Mrs. Collingwood but to give the Essex Federation Executive the opportunity to take on the tutor-organiser 's work , leaving all teaching to part-time tutors : an arrangement which was still in force at the District 's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988 . |
7 | Those attending were given the opportunity to carry out the mock validation of a course which was defended by a very experienced course team . |
8 | Take the opportunity to clean out the channel the cover fits in and to fill it with grease . |
9 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
10 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
11 | Demonstrations of Prestel are given as part of the information skills courses and pupils have the opportunity to try out the system . |
12 | He said he had bumped into Shildon on Monday evening and urged him into a pub , taking the opportunity to make up the quarrel begun on Friday . |
13 | By then , the game was set in an exciting crescendo , Palace interrupting the openings contrived down the right by Mike Newell and Pat Nevin with breaks aimed at Wright 's speed and control . |
14 | ‘ Until we get promotion , we wo n't get the crowds to bring in the money to get the top players . |
15 | All the sounds are bright and punchy , the humbucker dishing out the appropriate amount of clean chunk or coil-tapped crunch when desired . |
16 | The prince scraped up the money they had set aside to repair the roof again and Anna went off to India with some English acquaintances and stayed with the viceroy and came back with a ruby . |
17 | It was for the juy to tie up the loose ends , unemotionally . |
18 | My staff erected ladders to enable the riggers to patch up the envelope and refill it with gas to obtain lift . |
19 | But I could n't get the support to set up the business . ’ |
20 | Anti-abortionists in the House , faced with growing defections from their ranks , abandoned the struggle to strike out the clause , and chose instead to rely on a promise by President George Bush , on June 4 , to veto the legislation . |
21 | The chestnut-seller laid out the chestnuts on the grating to cool and then brought them over to Owen and Georgiades . |
22 | The flames lit up the skyline but there was no sign of Mayne . |
23 | Watching the flames shoot up the chimney , he told himself firmly that marriage was out of the question . |
24 | He was stoking the fire unnecessarily until the flames raced up the chimney . |
25 | The Art Newspaper is delighted to be one of this year 's winners and will use the award to build up the paper 's archive . |
26 | The board picks up the signal , and translates it into digital data , which is then stored as a data file on the computer 's hard disk . |
27 | As the board accelerates down the face of the wave your speed increases and the apparent wind changes . |
28 | The Board took over the legal aid scheme 's administrative structure and most of the staff . |
29 | In order for the vast pressure vessel ( the one we had seen being manufactured in France ) to negotiate the narrow village streets , it was necessary for the Board to buy up the frontages of over thirty houses . |
30 | 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 . |