Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [det] the " in BNC.

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1 In the western half the common system of tenure was the lease for three lives , whereby the tenant entered the names of any three people , and as long as one of them remained alive the lease held good .
2 You then say that when the hotelier went to wake up everyone for breakfast he had a big surprise , for in one bed was all the kings , in another was all the queens , in another all the aces and in the other all the jacks .
3 Yet all female mammals are chimaeras ; half the cells have one X chromosome active , and in the other half the other X chromosome is active .
4 In the other half the disease either remained the same , improved , or disappeared .
5 But in the first half the United defence took everything they had thrown at them .
6 Prudhoe , who was never seriously troubled in the first half the closest he came to conceding a goal was when the under pressure Kevan Smith had to touch behind a dangerous cross by Mark Stuart was in the wars shortly after half time .
7 Ready for the Christmas party , and some er some fiend broke in an nicked all the presents .
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