Example sentences of "the [adj] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the English pictures of note , the finest is undoubtedly a watercolour by Turner , ‘ The sea ! |
| 2 | I often wonder what I would be able to achieve if , one year , I did train especially for the indoor meetings , but it would be an error to try that because the indoor is just a side-show to the main events , which are the big outdoor meetings in the summer . |
| 3 | Yeah , last year we got so much equipment ah the that 's just a there , but |
| 4 | ‘ In fact , I think my whole career at the end of the 60s was probably a guilt trip of some sort . |
| 5 | This last description is often misunderstood : the point is that the economic is never a simple causal function that operates alone : |
| 6 | The 500 is obviously the unit for the mass market , so that 's the one I looked at . |
| 7 | There are 4–5 arm spines of which the ventralmost is usually the longest and often sabre shaped . |
| 8 | The weak were always the easiest to bribe . |
| 9 | Among the various available routes from Florence to Siena , the quickest is undoubtedly the motorway link . |
| 10 | The firm exports to 75 countries , but the British are still the main buyers . |
| 11 | There was plenty of room for sheer caprice : Paul I 's order for an overland march across unmapped territory to wrest India from the British was only the most bizarre instance . |
| 12 | The British were clearly a much happier group than the previous year , not least because Annewanter has a great deal of experience with smaller teams . |
| 13 | More than most Europeans , the British were still a lively , distinctive people at the end of the twentieth century — and not only for geographical reasons . |
| 14 | When it comes to mysteries about the distribution of creatures of the Oriental Region , the local nature of that of the gharial is possibly the greatest of them all . |
| 15 | The 1890s were probably the most remarkable decade in British deaf history — no other decade with the possible exception of the 1980s saw the social status of deaf people held so high in public esteem . |
| 16 | The 1890s were also a period in which deaf art flourished . |
| 17 | All four bedrooms have en suite facilities and are furnished individually with great care , the prettiest is perhaps the Waterwitch room , with its low bay window looking over the garden . |
| 18 | The 7350 is now the only image processor sold by the company . |
| 19 | You could easily have borrowed a book from your local library and come to the conclusion that the specification of the 5086 was perfectly state-of-the art — whereas in fact it is now looking really rather old fashioned . |
| 20 | The Japanese are now the only ones who do n't know what went on . ’ |
| 21 | Only if the issue , whether the accused is really the thief or the handler is live , need the phrase be proved by the prosecution : see Cash [ 1985 ] QB 801 ( CA ) , approving Griffiths ( 1974 ) 60 Cr App R 14 ( CA ) , and A-G of Hong Kong v Yip Kai-foon [ 1988 ] AC 642 ( PC ) . |
| 22 | The second was also an 87-year old widow with an OBS score of eight , and living alone in her own house . |
| 23 | The second was essentially a matter of timing . |
| 24 | The following is essentially a list of categorized items to ask for , so that you can get quickly into segmental phonology . |
| 25 | The following are just a few examples from around the world of ICIs activities in reducing its wastes : |
| 26 | In an authoritative report prepared in 1985 for Greenpeace , Simon Northridge of the Marine Resources Assessment Group of Imperial College , London , and Professor Georg Pilleri , a respected dolphin expert , identified a lengthy list of incidental catches of dolphins and porpoises in gill-nets , of which the following are only a selection . |
| 27 | The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations . |
| 28 | Of all the phenomena submersibles have observed on the ocean 's floors , the strangest are probably the black smokers — the hot springs on the East Pacific Rise that spew forth clouds of sulphide minerals ( New Scientist . |
| 29 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 30 | SUNKEN TREASURE Rickenbacker 650A Atlantis While it would be unfair to call this guitar a compromise on the part of Rickenbacker , the 650 is nevertheless a departure . |