Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] and the " in BNC.

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1 The male looks after the first and the female the second .
2 The Greater London boroughs have been divided in the past between the Labour Party which predominates in the inner-city and the Conservative Party which controls most of the outer suburban area .
3 The reference occurs in The Drowned and the Saved , of which a translation was published in 1988 , on the anniversary of his death .
4 Two legislative changes during the third quarter of the 19th century the extension of the Factory Acts in the 1860s and the Education Act of 1870 restricted the employment of children in the Potteries .
5 The same applies to the petrochemical and the other heavy chemical industries .
6 The same applies to the Ukrainian and the other Asian of populate .
7 Our sympathy goes to the bereaved and the injured .
8 However , in a key passage intended to highlight the Alliance 's " transatlantic " character , the communiqué also stipulated the " necessary transparency and complementarity between the European security and defence identity as it emerges in the Twelve and the WEU , and the Alliance " .
9 In one sense all indirect taxation is hardly equitable because it falls on the rich and the poor , like the old saying the rain , it raineth every day upon the rich and just and unjust fellow .
10 Yet the book itself vacillates between the wonted and the novel .
11 Dorothy Heathcote 's own thinking oscillates between the thematic and the concrete .
12 This is excess male mortality in humans as a function of age and you can see that it peaks in the mid-twenties and the peak is mainly accounted for by violence and accidents and er things like that , risky behaviour on the part of males and er , as you 'll see , throughout the life span there 's a , there 's a positive percentage excess in male mortality .
13 Ben has strength , pace and excels in the loose and the tight .
14 But there 's one thing I 'd like to know — why the sun shines on the good and the bad just the same , ’ she said , her voice trembling .
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