Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | One thing , thought Sally-Anne , looking around her , after Ma Bailey had set her down in one of the few chairs the room possessed , was that no one here had ever done any summer cleaning , nor spring , autumn nor winter cleaning either . |
2 | When all else fails , disciplinary procedures instigated properly and fairly are one of the few protections the public has . |
3 | Of course , the fewer calories the body uses from food the more it must draw from your surplus body fat , so this adds up to faster weight loss . |
4 | The fewer colours the better as far as harmony and contrast are concerned . |
5 | The fewer foods the mother ate from this list , the less severe was the colic . |
6 | If diagram is the right word , we hope that it is like a set of arrows , or avenues , pointing outwards in some of the many directions an artist interested in photography might explore . |
7 | Only our wearunders recognize the many roles a man plays . |
8 | Yet these are small gains to set against the many reverses the right has suffered since Mr de Klerk started to undo apartheid . |
9 | A vastly increased supply of turf and logs was required for the many fires the occasion demanded . |
10 | Among the many examples the House of the Faun is often considered to have a typical layout . |
11 | Among the many items the Group offers are corporate health programmes designed to suit any company 's requirements , advice on incorporating fitness equipment , training programmes and seminars and guidance on the best software to buy to inform on exercise and nutrition matters . |
12 | And let's not forget Western Samoa , Canada and Italy โ with the last two really giving the All Blacks a fright โ and Ireland , who were so near to bringing off a great quarter-final victory . |
13 | In other words , in an oligopolistic framework , the non-equivalence between an optimal tariff and a quota arises since the latter changes the behaviour of the competing firms . |
14 | Nonetheless it remains true that the most common explanation of large numbers of unrecovered hoards is warfare , though in some instances it is believed that economic factors also played a part ; in the latter cases a currency or political reform is thought to have rendered the coins worthless and hence the owners would not have bothered to recover them . |
15 | The latter charts the position field by field , recording the numbers of applicants in various categories , most importantly those with unconditional offers who have firmly accepted ( UF ) and those with unconditional offers whose decision is as yet unknown ( U- ) . |
16 | He is right โ the more times a golfer is in contention , the more often he will lose . |
17 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
18 | He knew that the more strings an actor had to his bow , the wider the possibilities there were open to him . |
19 | The more ranks a unit has the better its combat result bonus . |
20 | The more stars a recipe has , the healthier it is . |
21 | The more ideas a sentence contains , the more difficult it becomes to read it . |
22 | ( 1 ) Furthermore , the more cigarettes a woman smokes during pregnancy , the greater the probable reduction in birthweight . |
23 | The more animals a household is obliged to sacrifice , the greater has been its misfortune . |
24 | The more KGB agents in the country , the more men the intelligence services have to deploy to watch and counter their activities . |
25 | The more partners a man has had , the more likely it is that he will entertain fantasies about people with whom he has not yet had a sexual relationship . |
26 | Taxpayers should seek to have income if at all possible assessed under TA 1988 , Case III or Cases IV and V rather than Case VI because in the former Cases the assessment is on the preceding year basis . |
27 | Where after a full dissolution the winding up of the practice is in the hands of some only of the former partners an allowance may be made to them in recognition of their efforts before the net profits are determined for the purposes of this section or otherwise . |
28 | The latter belief explicitly rejects consistency as a virtue in its own right , while the former demands a balancing of public interests against those of the particular defendant in the light of moral judgements that only the magistrate is qualified to make . |
29 | A milkman who serves the same customers every day and who is usually known to them personally will clearly have sufficient contact . |
30 | It can therefore be said that in a long series of estimates under the same conditions the population mean would lie within one standard error of the mean 68 per cent of the time , or within two standard errors 95ยท4 per cent of the time . |