Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb base] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The accounts go out every six months , ’ he reminded her with a frown . |
| 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 | Therefore , any remaining lead of the futures price over the spot price is due to either new information being reflected first in the futures market ( price discovery ) , or to recording and reporting lags for the index . |
| 4 | Not only did the fragrances of the essences cover up the putrid smells of gangrenous wounds , they also suppressed them by retarding putrefaction . |
| 5 | Although this is not the same as decay or rotting , it can weaken the joints if the splits appear where the fixings are . |
| 6 | Despite some early lows ( ‘ Coming On Strong ’ ) , The Shamen string together a powerful set which plays up the rockier side of their pop equation . |
| 7 | The investigations cover not a single scandal but the unrelated activities of hundreds of firms and politicians . |
| 8 | The wiper switch on the dash is starting to annoy me , as is the headlight flasher which refuses to flash with dipped beam on . |
| 9 | Therefore it is suggested that for the husband whose outrage forecloses the possibility of a mere divorce proceeding , a clear case exists for having the courts carve out an exception to the three-year rule so as to allow a suit to be brought for nullity through fraud or mistake.56 To the protesting reader who may feel that this spurious reasoning leads us into the realm of nonsense , the only answer is that it is the purpose of this paper to provoke a re-examination of certain fundamental values and ideas . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC . |
| 12 | Hour by hour the birds move up the wedge |
| 13 | The shape and structure of the houses project even the most individual activities into the social domain . |
| 14 | Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’ |
| 15 | Some streets are dimly lit by smoking torches , but the houses have only the shadowy light of candles and oil-lamps . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The ordeal is over : the Namibians show off the Sicily Trophy after beating Hong Kong 26–12 in the catania final . |
| 18 | All of the planets circle around the Sun elliptically in the same direction as the Sun itself rotates . |
| 19 | All the stars in the galaxy are slowly moving around its centre just as the planets move around the Sun , taking some 200 million years — a ‘ galactic year ’ — to make a full circuit . |
| 20 | The cases extend over a period of ten years . |
| 21 | The servants watched the clock in the kitchen tick away the minutes . |
| 22 | There are many areas within the personnel function where a micro such as an Apple will be seen to have a relevance . |
| 23 | Near Wolfstein the roads run along a valley floor , the hills on either side rising to above 1,000 feet . |
| 24 | For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings . |
| 25 | As the bells beat down the dark . |
| 26 | The story bring out the significance of dreams and their interpretation at this time . |
| 27 | During which the authorities relax even the few laws and rules that normally exist . |
| 28 | In 1815 the authorities put down a rebellion by landless Dutch-speaking colonials and mismanaged the execution of convicted ringleaders . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Because they knew Puddephat was supposed to be going abroad , ’ Tracey began , ‘ the cops put out a message through Interpol . |