Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather by the tootling and jingling of a good old-fashioned kletzmer band . |
| 2 | Now before we step the mast , we need to turn the boat more or less into the wind and that 's a good chance for us to start thinking about where the wind 's coming from . |
| 3 | These temperatures are consistent with the apparent rigidity of the outer 200 km or so of the Moon and with the strong attenuation of S waves beyond about 800 km , and with the large area to mass ratio of the Moon . |
| 4 | The chute is a perfect dish hovering a metre or so above the snow and hauling me downwind at a speed that would be unthinkable on Nordic skis . |
| 5 | If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained . |
| 6 | You might think of it like the clock in your hall being set forwards or backwards at the beginning and end of Summer Time , so that it registers nightfall as coming first later and then earlier … ’ |
| 7 | Bred by Exhibitor For dogs who are not champions , and are owned wholly or partly by the breeder and shown by him or his family . |
| 8 | By the eighteenth century foreign offices , departments of state concerned simply or mainly with the making and execution of foreign policy , could be seen in embryo in many parts of Europe . |
| 9 | On a number of later occasions — in 1749 , 1753 , 1771–74 and 1788 — the device of exiling the Parlement to a provincial town was resorted to ; but every one of these struggles was ended by concessions made solely or mainly by the king and his ministers . |
| 10 | In the Commission 's view , this is best done either antiphonally , between two sides of a congregation , or responsorially between the leader and the people . |
| 11 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
| 12 | My father was not pleased when he came back early or unexpectedly from the hospital and found that we were out drinking or talking to girls . |
| 13 | She saw more than enough in the guilt and pleasure on his face to make questions redundant . |
| 14 | Some species have benefited from the change in the downland agricultural scene , and Corn Buntings and Skylarks are now more numerous in these areas than elsewhere in the county and are the most characteristic birds of the downland . |
| 15 | The analogy has been drawn more than once between the hacker and the dedicated musician . |
| 16 | There is now more traffic than ever on the route and any hold-ups will spill on to the surrounding routes . |
| 17 | In response to Labour questioning , Mr MacGregor said : ‘ Without any question I am keen to ensure that both from the passenger and freight point of view the north of England and Scotland gain as much benefit as possible from the Channel Tunnel and the Channel Tunnel high-speed link . ’ |
| 18 | Although far from the dust and heat of India , the Sikhs had come in their thousands , roosting like exotic birds on the chimney-pots and the concrete of Southall . |
| 19 | He has to keep going all the time — to and fro about the world and walking up and down in it . |
| 20 | They bustled to and fro across the dock and swarmed on and off the ships . |
| 21 | It would not be safe to have you going to and fro between the steerage and our quarters . |
| 22 | A commission of magistrates and theologians from the University of Louvain was appointed to examine him in a long-drawn-out process in which translations of his heretical works were prepared by Philips ; written charges and rebuttals in Latin passed to and fro between the Commission and Tyndale , followed by oral examinations . |
| 23 | Men from each force blundered to and fro in the darkness and El Cid himself was slightly wounded . |
| 24 | So I asked him what he was up to and he said he was going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it , and then he pushed th " trolley in , and I went in after , and the mother began her howling and shrieking , and Will said , " Well , I 'll walk off and leave you to it . " |
| 25 | There was no home leave from overseas and , as far as I knew , few individuals or units of the Eighth Army had returned to Britain , for most had been sent to Sicily and thence to the toe and heel of Italy , or to Salerno , and by this time were fighting hard up the Italian peninsula on one or other side of the Appennines . |
| 26 | The subject-matter is much more closely related to the actual business of judicial decision-making and so to the ideology and practice of particular systems of civil procedure . |
| 27 | If one accepts this , even if only for the present and not as an inevitable fact for the future , then a responsibility lies with hearing society to meet not only the communication requirements of deaf people but also to understand and be able to work with this group in their language . |
| 28 | But I 'm not gon na worry about that until halfway through the week and then I 'll write to them . |
| 29 | Suddenly Jack was playing less and less on the tour and so Greg asked me if I 'd be interested in working for him . |
| 30 | Whatever , he was never the same person again , and seemed to care less and less about the band and the music until he announced , mid-tour in 1970 , that he was leaving . |