Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hotspur had promised her a fair deliverance , vouching for the prince no less than for himself , and in his promise she believed as in the mass . |
| 2 | Equally , common sense demands that the operated transsexual should not be able to avoid prosecution and conviction for soliciting or importuning , as the case may be , by suddenly adopting for the duration of the trial the prior and now abandoned sex . |
| 3 | Pareto also argues that in practice the distinction between elite and non-elite is blurred and that within the elite a governing and a non-governing group can be discerned . |
| 4 | A drop down flap conceals the 3.5″ floppy disk drive and the blanking plates , giving the front of the case a tidy and uncluttered appearance . |
| 5 | From William the Conqueror onwards the Church Courts are separated from the Lay Courts : the Bishop has his court ; the Archbishop a superior or prerogative court ; from him before the Reformation there is an appeal to the pope . |
| 6 | I have done the route a dozen or more times since that distant autumn , and although I know it is ‘ easy ’ I have never set off across that huge ceiling without a feeling of apprehension . |
| 7 | Entry costs £2 for adults and £1 for juniors and applications should be sent to the Spectrum no later than February 22 . |
| 8 | The gut , the liver , the bowel the circulatory and nervous systems are all intimately responsive to these emotions . |
| 9 | He wants to keep the Government 's proposals for the future of the industry a deep and dark secret — and so they remained until the Rothschild report saw the light of day a few weeks ago . |
| 10 | The nature of the obligation is simply that of an obligation to repay money which has been received and it is neither necessary nor logical , simply because the conditions of repayment relate to the performance of covenants in a lease , that the transfer of the reversion should create in the transferee an additional and co-extensive obligation to pay money which he has never received and in which he never had any interest or that the assignment of the term should vest in the assignee the right to receive a sum which he has never paid … |
| 11 | At the time appointed for the auction the poor and the thrifty were left to man the ramparts ; everyone else crowded into the hall of the Residency which was considered to be the most suitable place for the proceedings . |
| 12 | Well what I know the answer is is to say do n't worry be concerned but do n't worry because worrying does n't do you no good , it does n't do the condition no good and it does n't do everybody else any good either because they just say oh she 's you know what she is , depressed by whatever it is and that 's , as it were , objectively logical but wh wh what seems to me to be the absolutely overwhelming is to say he 's not worried , he 's desperately concerned , he 's more concerned than humans can possibly be but if god is n't worried , what on earth are we burning up our resources worrying about because if he 's not worried concerned yes , but he 's not worried . |
| 13 | On the Continent the arbalest or crossbow was used extensively , and crossbowmen often formed an individual armoured unit , both for defensive purposes and as a serious threat to charging cavalry . |
| 14 | To what extent is the signal in the chick the same as in other vertebrates ? |
| 15 | The need to call police to sort out minor disturbances only skims the surface of a problem that does the name of the club no good and reduces its image to that of second rate . |
| 16 | Those wishing to play should arrive at the club no later than 1.30 . |
| 17 | The Colonel did not stop to reassure his wife , but rose neatly , pushed his chair under his table and with swift , disciplined steps reached the terrace no more than a couple of yards behind Miss Danziger . |
| 18 | Then , in that second of hushed silence before the screen and fanfare blaze out , there came from the middle of the auditorium a huge and shocked voice ‘ What the fookin''ell are yo ’ doin' ? ' , followed almost at once by two mighty smacks that could only have been someone being hit . |
| 19 | To add to the confusion the old-fashioned but still prevalent school ethics dictate that girls in trousers are somehow ‘ rude ’ . |
| 20 | They were sweeping over the ancient continent of Africa , the everlasting wastelands of the desert no more than a patch on a great patchwork quilt . |
| 21 | He poured into the telephone a long and unintelligible narrative about Profumo 's villainy in relation to the unhappy answer he had given to Wigg about the army . |
| 22 | What lends the work a more than merely programmatic cohesion is , I think , the extreme sensitivity of Mason 's ear for harmony : the strangest agglomerations of texture have a vertical consistency in terms of pitch that identify them all as integral parts of the same piece . |
| 23 | The first is that of many Catholics who already thought the Council a strange and almost unnecessary development . |
| 24 | Obviously the faster the machine the better and there is nothing wrong with using a super 486 for the job . |
| 25 | His flute-playing , the vast quantity of bad French poetry he wrote , his friendship with Voltaire ( carefully advertised but when put to the test no more than skin deep ) impressed many contemporaries and have impressed some historians . |
| 26 | We were under the shadow of flying grit , the sun no more than an aura of gold . |
| 27 | Completed entries listing the activity , those taking part and the amount raised must be received by the EEIBA no later than 30 September . |
| 28 | The Legion sounded like a good idea : the pay was good , the uniforms smart , the bullshit no worse than the British Army , and there were varied postings abroad . |
| 29 | She wondered if the shredded look was at the almost unthinkable idea of a woman Prime Minister or at Cassie 's trenchant dismissal of Britain 's wartime defences ; but for the moment the confident and very arrogant ‘ leave everything to me , I know what I 'm about ’ look had been most thoroughly squashed . |
| 30 | WITH the object and intent of affording to the Vendor a full and sufficient indemnity but not further or otherwise the Purchaser hereby covenants with the Vendor that he the Purchaser and the persons deriving title under him will at all times hereafter duly observe and perform the covenants contained or referred to in the Conveyance so far as the same affect the property hereby conveyed and remain to be observed and performed and are capable of being enforced and will indemnity and keep indemnified the Vendor and his successors in title from and against all actions costs claims and demands in respect of any breach non-observance or non-performance thereof so far as aforesaid |