Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joints and fissures are probably enlarged partly by the abrasive effect of stones scoured into them by the waves and partly by the pressures generated by the waves when they break against the cliffs . |
| 2 | A fast trip through central London whisked them past the main tourist attractions and out to the suburbs to the International Training College where they were to stay . |
| 3 | There is much more action by the train itself while it is singing and ‘ screaming ’ and as it ‘ bolts ’ and plunges and also within the lines which describe the movement . |
| 4 | So — we would much rather that you went out on a limb , that you did something , that you listened to the remarks of your peers and possibly to the remarks that we might make about them , take them away and think about them . |
| 5 | I need to clear a narrow path through the rushes and also through the lilies that border the margins . |
| 6 | erm that would maintain a regular interest from the schools and also from the children involved . |
| 7 | This was never a very promising argument , seeing that the notice is addressed to the defendants and not to the plaintiffs , and the defendants themselves have made it clear that they have no difficulty in understanding it and complying with it . |
| 8 | Press dough into the corners and slightly up the sides . |
| 9 | Thanks also to the parishes for their support and donations and also to the members of CAUSE who delivered the hampers . |
| 10 | The problem with drawing a conclusion about cost is that it is dangerous to start talking about the cost of community care because the cost of community care varies tremendously with local circumstances and particularly with the characteristics of the people you are looking at . |
| 11 | Panel lists can be found at Citizens Advice Bureaux , at Magistrates Courts and also in the Solicitors regional Directory . |
| 12 | It is unhelpful if Ministers or others speaking on the right hon. Gentleman 's behalf suggest that internment will not be used or that it is not a viable and justifiable means of dealing with those whose training and speciality is keeping themselves out of the courts and out of the hands of those on whom we depend to impose justice for the deaths that have occurred in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
| 14 | Subtitled How The World Will Change In The Depression Of The 1990s , its central hypothesis is that we are headed for a major depression , that deflation will return , that property prices will collapse by two-thirds , that Islam will pour into the power vacuum left by communism , that taxes will soar , that many major corporations will cease to exist , that anyone wealthy enough will flee big cities and away from the gangs controlling them , that countries like India , Canada , South Africa and Israel will fall to bits , that there will be plagues of locusts and frogs and that firstborn sons ought to head for the hills while they 've got the chance . |
| 15 | But these limitations are more than offset by the sheer quantity of coins and hence of the designs made . |
| 16 | Whether we think in terms of territory or sovereignty , of freedom or property , these or other concepts are crucial ingredients in our world views and hence in the choices which determine the use and control of our physical movements and so ultimately our survival . |
| 17 | A variety of practical and investigative activities was tried out , largely with the children working in groups and occasionally with the groups engaged in different tasks . |
| 18 | So up to the woods and there in the woods he heard the sound of an axe . |
| 19 | All of the Hollywood gloss and glitter was up front in the square where the lines formed and the buskers milked , but the alley was just a mean crack with high walls of featureless brick , somewhere to hide the trash cans and somewhere for the tramps to sleep . |
| 20 | If you do not brush your teeth thoroughly enough , there will be tiny residues of plaque left — especially between the teeth and closest to the gums , or in those hard-to-reach areas at the back of the mouth . |
| 21 | A growing understanding of such rules has tempted biologists into making exaggerated claims about the invariance of human mating preferences and also about the origins of incest taboos . |
| 22 | This assumption that wages are attached to the vacancies and not to the individuals , as in the standard search theory models , is a very important distinction for the estimation of . |
| 23 | In the course of the 1960s the boundaries of what counted as " English " began to expand as more interdisciplinary and joint programmes of study were offered , especially at the new universities and later at the polytechnics . |
| 24 | They walked around the graveyard for a short time , looking at the graves and then at the papers . |
| 25 | If you have a combination skin , recognisable by an oily T-zone ( forehead , nose and chin ) and drier cheeks , apply moisturiser only where you need it ( ie over the cheeks and up to the temples ) . |
| 26 | The fact that a scheme could be contrived that made it a working possibility for the majority of the disabled to acquire a motor car of their choice and to finance the purchase , including insurance and repair , from the allowance , was a staggering revelation to economists and particularly to the socialists of the time who regarded private enterprise as the kiss of death . |
| 27 | Mike Benton in his article on the rhynchosaurs ( 7 April , p 9 ) suggests that the so-called battle for survival really took place between the food-source plants and not between the animals themselves . |
| 28 | A key clause defined freedom of information : journalists had the right to demand information ( including access to documents ) from state bodies , social organizations and officials , and to appeal to higher bodies or officials and ultimately to the courts if their demands were refused . |
| 29 | Farming thrives as it has done down the years and now with the swallows come the caravans to the clifftop with people in search of sea , sand and serenity . |
| 30 | The emphasis would be less on workers and families as individuals and more on the roles they play , and how these roles are constrained by certain formal and informal rules . |