Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was standing at the gas-stove , turning a plucked chicken over the flames to singe away the tiny feathers left behind in the skin . |
| 2 | The cash-and-carry transactions used to determine the CTD bond for a given futures price can also be used to determine the fair price of the futures contract once the price of the CTD bond is known . |
| 3 | When we look at Poe 's tales , the structure seems predictable , even formulaic : the dawning sense that all is not as it should be ; the attempts to explain away the moaning sounds that something inside him is nevertheless compelling him to hear ; the fight with fancy , as if one could will away one 's deepest fear ; and then the horrified recognition that what one was most afraid of is there , behind the antique panels , waiting to throw one to the floor . |
| 4 | 10 Contractual rights The courts adopt substantially the same rules when implying an obligation of confidence into a contract and when finding an equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 5 | The shape and structure of the houses project even the most individual activities into the social domain . |
| 6 | Some streets are dimly lit by smoking torches , but the houses have only the shadowy light of candles and oil-lamps . |
| 7 | She holds clinics in the areas in and around Cape Town — the shanty towns begin a few miles outside the city and the houses improve markedly the nearer the centre you get — and Rose believes that the fruits of her success will start to become evident in two or three years . |
| 8 | For the reasons outlined above the County Council remains of the opinion that the two sites to the north of Skelton should be excluded from the greenbelt and included within the Skelton village inset . |
| 9 | Those of the arms are particularly interesting because the fists are either clenched or the fingers flattened thus the lines and shapes made only appear slightly rounded by the folds in the sleeves . |
| 10 | During which the authorities relax even the few laws and rules that normally exist . |
| 11 | Astronomers tend to always think the probability is high because they think there are so many sites on which life could develop , but the biologists take completely the opposite view , that there are so many evolutionary pathways that lead to biological dead ends , that this outweighs the number of sites on which life could develop . |
| 12 | There are often three related questions : do recipient governments really want the project ? do the target beneficiaries ( such as smallholders ) within the country really want the project ? do the donor(s) , the recipient government and the beneficiaries expect roughly the same from the project ? |
| 13 | Although there was some division of Conservative opinion , it appeared that a majority both of the Cabinet and of the backbenchers favoured either the acceptance of the bill or a Government measure doing roughly the same job in its place . |
| 14 | The followers of Eufrasius resorted to simony , backed by the financial support of the Jews , but the clergy put forward the name of Avitus . |
| 15 | Yet the Hall resistance at the plateaux has exactly the values expected from free-electron theory ( see Box ) . |
| 16 | The methods manipulate either the antecedents or consequences of the problem behaviour . |
| 17 | The parties enjoyed also the benefit of free but limited television time . |
| 18 | The words indicate clearly the virginal conception of Jesus ( Luke 1:34–35 ) . |
| 19 | The words mark both the girl 's mastery of sexual difference , and her subjugation by it ; both her pleasure in her mastery of an appropriate action , and her lack of social power . |
| 20 | The mini-buffets underlined anew the truism that if all food could somehow be prepared on terra firma , familiar restaurant-car hazards such as unreliable equipment and minuscule space would no longer matter . |
| 21 | The miners owned neither the buses nor the land over which they travelled . |
| 22 | English China Clays has been so successful at reclaiming the visitors notice only the unreclaimed sites |
| 23 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
| 24 | The judges examined both the evidence of witnesses and written documentation , the procedure being based on the Roman civil procedure . |
| 25 | It hardly needs remarking that the experimental procedure of varying the circumstances fits exactly the account of fundamental nomic connection which we have . |
| 26 | The parents had neither the character nor the love to make coping and organisation tenable . |
| 27 | All day long the shears snipped away the hours until the sun sank low and disappeared behind the trees . |
| 28 | The Conservatives have now the Conservatives have now decided that home closure is the thing and you 'd expect them to produce figures to say we 've got to have thirteen or whatever number closed . |
| 29 | For this reason , in each of the trials discussed below the window size is varied from 1 to 10 words . |
| 30 | I do realize that there are problems in finding suitable sites and that possibly that costs would be involved in setting them up , but for the reasons I 've outlined we should take the bull by the horns and make an effort to find sites and budget for the costs involved so the benefits can be felt as soon as possible . |