Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1740 Britain exported about £0.7m. to North America and about the same amount to the West Indies , but twenty years later the West Indies took £1m. and the mainland took £2m. , while imports from the West Indies ran at £1.8m. and from the mainland at £0.6m . |
| 2 | Captain Goldsborough , wrapped in his thick , black fur , and with a little time to while away until the road should be clear of wedding-carriages , appeared to be telling her so . |
| 3 | Time and again we have put down the markers and placed on record that we would regard it as a perfectly reasonable alternative to what exists now if there were a series of companies throughout Scotland which represented the ownership of those at present employed by the Scottish Bus Group under the same conditions as at present and with the same commitment to the current level of services . |
| 4 | The system of government by close liaison with the Church was maintained in Germany by Henry II and Henry III , and under the latter rose to its height . |
| 5 | About agoraphobia and claustrophobia and the paradoxical desire to be let out into unconfined space , the wild moorland , the open ground , and at the same time to be closed into tighter and tighter impenetrable small spaces — like Emily Dickinson 's voluntary confinement , like the Sibyl 's jar . |
| 6 | For them the answer to the question of interpretation , and at the same time to the question of evaluation , is provided by the concept of structure ; good literature or poetry is distinguished from bad literature or non-literature by an objective structure of meaning , the balancing or reconciliation of opposing attitudes or terms . |