Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most substantial of them farmed sufficient land to earn themselves the description of yeoman ; the poorest had merely an acre or two and perhaps the right to keep a cow and some sheep on the common . |
| 2 | Mark Hudson Out of the strong came forth the sweetness Not so much an installation as a duration piece created with treacle and sugar cubes . |
| 3 | Or was the 1980 result merely a personal victory for Reagan ? |
| 4 | The working class adolescent of the 60s had quite a job deciding what to do with his hair . |
| 5 | The Infinite becomes merely the extension ad infinitum of the finite instead of a reality ‘ wholly other ’ . |
| 6 | The obscure and the struggling got just the same treatment . |
| 7 | The French did precisely the same thing . ’ |
| 8 | In the autumn of 1950 the French put forward the Pleven Plan , their aim being to ensure that any German forces were split into small units and integrated within a European Defence Community ( EDC ) . |
| 9 | Although it was not appreciated at the time when the Japanese swept away the administration , the power and the remaining claims to sovereignty of the French in Indochina , the Second World War in Asia had entered its final six months . |
| 10 | The first does attempt to obtain a value , the second remains essentially a cost and not a value . |
| 11 | Even excluding these the following represents only a small sample . |
| 12 | Rather , there are three species , and each one of the three has both a 17-year and a 13-year variety or race . |
| 13 | However , three other power bases do depend much more on the capacity of the powerful to affect directly the perceptions of the less powerful , even when the latter are resisting that influence . |
| 14 | Some of the poor made quite a good living from these services and one can imagine an efficient ‘ bush telegraph ’ system to alert others of forthcoming requiems . |
| 15 | As I have suggested , up to a generation ago a common form of life united sixth-form and university English , regardless of whether their orientation was ‘ Oxford ’ or ‘ Cambridge ’ , since the latter made much the same assumptions about literacy and competence as the former . |
| 16 | Other settler papers and a few mission-sponsored papers were in existence , the latter providing almost the only significant opposition to white rule and UDI in 1965 . |
| 17 | Even as civil society endlessly displaces corruption from the social body as a whole on to its low life , the latter reveals both the original source and full extent of corruption within the dominant itself ( pp. 16 , 174 ) . |
| 18 | The latter provides only a temporary solution to the problem , particularly as confused elderly patients often try to remove the tube at night . |
| 19 | The latter constitute both a small dictionary of commercial abbreviations and a set of dispositive rules . |
| 20 | Archetypal suburbia from the 1920s contains virtually no housing for private renting . |
| 21 | The German naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel ( 1834–1919 ) is generally regarded as the first to put forward the idea that these changes in the embryo retrace our evolutionary history . |
| 22 | Practical experience with stained glass must have led George Palmer to consider the nature of colour , and he was the first to put forward the modern theory of colour vision and colour blindness . |
| 23 | It has an apsidal termination but no complete ambulatory ; there are large flanking side chapels ending before the apse , and the ambulatory encircles only the end part . |
| 24 | If the above constitutes only a ‘ framework ’ , it is undoubtedly an elaborate one . |
| 25 | The reason why reliance is more deserving of protection than expectations is that the former involves merely a resto-ration to the position once held , whereas the latter entails a transfer of wealth or the enrichment of one party at the expense of the other . |
| 26 | The latter deal primarily in a currency of meaning while the former have still a conflict concerning the appropriate register for the target language . |
| 27 | From there they would flow outwards to the masses through all state agencies , which by the 1930s included even the family . |
| 28 | Colonisation by the well-to-do seems indeed the true solution … for the problem is , how to make the masses realise their spiritual and social solidarity with the rest of the capital and of the kingdom : how to revive their sense of citizenship , with its privileges which they have lost , and its responsibilities which they have forgotten . |
| 29 | The first annual report of the Oxford House mission in 1884 set this programme out most clearly : " Colonisation by the well-to-do seems indeed the true solution to the East End question , for the problem is , how to make the masses realise their spiritual and social solidarity with the rest of the capital and the Kingdom " . |
| 30 | Note it is important in that case that not only the settlor but the spouse of the settlor was not domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time of the last to die otherwise the property would not be in an excluded property settlement — see s80(1) which refers to the last of the spouse or the settlor to cease to be beneficially entitled to an interest in possession . |