Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more populous the parishes became , the more diffuse the community grew , the more acute the problem : no longer did the overseers or the ratepayers know everyone receiving relief , and it was then far from an easy task to sort out the needy from the charlatans . |
| 2 | Family work , as in most social work , is often concerned with balancing the power of the strong with the rights of the weak . |
| 3 | I knew that these paintings were produced for the Spanish in the decades after their conquest of Latin America , and represented the christianising of the old centres of Inca culture , in Peru and Bolivia especially . |
| 4 | His skies boiled and burned , or they reflected the eternal in the eyes of a baby . |
| 5 | By removing their normal protective cover from those who commit moral wrongs , the ancestors ( or other central powers ) deliver the guilty into the hands of their secret police — the witches and sorcerers . |
| 6 | But in the longer perspective the events of 1963 had demonstrated a profound dialogue of the deaf between the strikers , who had chanted " Charlot , des sous ! " |
| 7 | The Prudential was assessed to stamp duty on the consideration for both the land and all building works on the grounds that the two agreements were a single commercial transaction , the substance of which was the sale of the developed site to the Prudential by the developers . |
| 8 | He had done his initial research on jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as varied as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 9 | He had done his initial research on Jane Austen , but since then had turned his attention to topics as various as medieval sermons , Elizabethan sonnet sequences , Restoration heroic tragedy , eighteenth-century broadsides , the novels of William Godwin , the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and premonitions of the Theatre of the Absurd in the plays of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 10 | But the spokeswoman said the concession in no way gave the allclear for the brewers to delay action . |
| 11 | Other Danuese , particularly the ex-FAKINTIL in the malai battalions , thought it was to help planes to home in more accurately . |
| 12 | It arose from a crisis in a disregarded part of the world , of no consequence to the British since the days of Captain Cook , namely the South Atlantic . |
| 13 | The utilitarian approach , if it had been applied to the political life of India , would have led to the forcible ejection of the British on the grounds that the greatest happiness or good of the greatest number in India , namely the Indians themselves , would have resulted from it . |
| 14 | She knew stories about Anancy the spider and the Maroon people who fought the British in the mountains . |
| 15 | The hung from the rafters and hardly stirred when I walked beneath . |
| 16 | If immobility is one of its effects , the swinging between the extremes that bound it — love and hate , pity and fear — is another , and that is how Stephen will move . |
| 17 | In the event , the crossing of the very new with the very old has produced an entirely new race of roses that combine the softer colour and fragrance charms of the old with the advantages of the modern forms . |
| 18 | The Urban Survival Handbook by John Wiseman ( Harvill , £10.99 ) — John Wiseman 's follow-up to The SAS Survival Handbook is a paranoic 's charter , drawing the attention of the unwary to the dangers of everything from extension ladders to Japanese wisteria and providing useful hints on how to combat them . |
| 19 | But if he accepted , and then resigned the archbishopric into the hands of the pope , as he continued to wish to do , the responsibility for a new appointment would lie with the pope , and Anselm would ‘ justly ’ be free from a position which he hated . |
| 20 | A detective-sergeant told Belfast Magistrate 's Court that when Hill was formally charged he replied ‘ no ’ to all four charges , but he said he believed he could connect the accused to the offences . |
| 21 | The detective chief-inspector said he believed he could connect the accused to the charges . |
| 22 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 23 | The RUC officer said he believed he could connect the accused with the charges . |
| 24 | In each case it may be possible to provide additional practical and problem-solving skills by integrating either one or both of the following into the programmes ( this could be particularly important for those students wishing to enter Higher Education ) : |
| 25 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 26 | The brief for the architects , Hunt Thompson Associates , from their housing association client , was to explore the suitability of the building for conversion into flats , subject to the standards and cost limits laid down by the Housing Corporation and the Department of the Environment . |
| 27 | Here , sandstone furnished a buff colour , pennant stone a blue , liar the white for the tesserae of room 11 . |
| 28 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 29 | There is a more complicated echo of Shakespeare in the scene when Aragorn , as the true king , revives the sick in the Houses of Healing with his touch and the herb athelas . |
| 30 | There was free distribution of milk to the poor and broth to the sick in the villages nearby , and an almshouse was established , modelled on those which Nicholas had seen in Holland . |