Example sentences of "the [noun sg] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was too soon in my own development for me to be able to grasp the opportunity and eventually the shop closed down and Mr Farrer moved on . |
| 2 | It is the human being who will be faced with the opportunity and perhaps the temptation to be violent , and who will make the decision as to which path to follow . |
| 3 | Darlington police have been told about the vandalism and yesterday an officer went to interview Miss Golightly . |
| 4 | She urges the excellence and dignity of courage , a glittering idea which has dazzled mankind from age to age and animated sometimes the housebreaker and sometimes the conqueror . ’ |
| 5 | We have now considered the general background information to the trial and also the specific points about the unit that we wish to check . |
| 6 | In spite of their different appearances and functions during the actual process of fertilization , the egg and sperm cells bring equivalent portions of genetic material to the zygote and hence the future individual . |
| 7 | They dispose of ‘ all the nice furniture that used to be in the saloon and then the candelabra ’ . |
| 8 | Shiloh was some twenty miles from the camp , but the storyteller does not dwell on the sight of the Israelites ( and the Philistines , too ! ) twiddling their thumbs while the runner and then the ark are on their way . |
| 9 | Well what 's that with the that 's the gel and then the what , the shower gel ? |
| 10 | The cheesemaker has the best control over his cheese if he is able to use the milk from his own flock or herd — he then knows exactly what he is getting and where the animals have been grazed as the type of grass and subsoil contributes much to the flavour of the milk and then the cheese . |
| 11 | It is half past three of the afternoon and already the houses across the burn are fading into a sodden gloom . |
| 12 | From 1867 onwards it became clear that the boy must begin to learn his métier as heir to the throne and so a small household was established . |
| 13 | Murray wants to opt out of the deal but two deadlines have already passed for Kiam to raise the money and now a third , and perhaps final , one has fallen due this month , the end of the football season . |
| 14 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 15 | Leading dissidents in the ruling United National Party , however , organized public rallies to attack the executive presidency for running a " police state " , marginalizing the parliament and even the Cabinet , and ruling through presidential advisers with no public accountability . |
| 16 | It was , there 's the basement and then a large room above where they used to have meetings er , you see , and er , and er , well they did they had friends from Stowmarket go and visit them , you see . |
| 17 | A small hole was dug , the cigarette buried , songs sung over the grave and then the whole procession wended its w ? y round the field four times singing the funeral march from Aida , which we had been practising for a week . |
| 18 | At the same time we explained the role of one EC institution , the European Monetary Cooperation Fund , in administering the snake and then the EMS arrangements . |
| 19 | So what happens of course in an institution like that is the the leaders define the doctrine congregation for the doctrine of the faith , lays down the doctrine of the faith and then the believers are then obliged to believe it . |
| 20 | In such cases unemployment is known to be impending at the outset of the contract and therefore the exclusion ‘ unemployment known to be impending at the commencement of insurance ’ will apply with a resultant repudiation of the claim . |
| 21 | He pointed out that trade secrets falling in to the third category would subsequent upon the judgment of the Court of Appeal , be protected under an implied term of the contract and therefore an expressed restrictive covenant would not be needed to protect trade secrets or their equivalent . |
| 22 | Controversy surrounded the legal framework for the election and particularly the new constituency boundaries : new electoral laws endorsed by the National Assembly on April 1 and 2 marked the abandonment of the proportional representation system which had given dramatic victories to the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) in local elections in June 1990 [ see pp. 37549-50 ] . |
| 23 | He says Mr Kirk is just trying to influence the election and even the school headmaster wants nothing to do with it . |
| 24 | Reasons of security lie behind the decision and only a few works will not be staying , including a handful of objects and paintings belonging to the artist himself and the painting ‘ Montroig , the church and the people ’ ( 1919 ) which has been promised to the Fondació Joan Miró in Barcelona . |
| 25 | When at last he was satisfied with the elevation he supervised the loading ; a dry wad over the cartridge and then a damp one . |
| 26 | The next house ( 7/174 ) was owned by the Černín and later the Sterreggov family . |
| 27 | First we tension the foot and then the luff until we get a properly shaped aerofoil . |
| 28 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 29 | That used to be the kitchen and then the wall , you know where that stove was |
| 30 | On the plus side the harness and especially the hip belt is extremely comfortable , its extra wide shape wrapping round the hips with more than a hint of luxury . |