Example sentences of "and [prep] [det] [noun pl] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Subsequently it increased again , and for several decades now the magnitude has hovered around 2.2 .
2 The Germans left with their prey , and no one knew if they were going to return , but all through the night and for several days more the orphanage was looted .
3 They thus have some control over the speed with which the AGV moves through their section , and for those sections where the carrier does not move for the full 20 minutes there is the opportunity to pace their work over that span .
4 In sufficient numbers innovation-weary teachers can make any change a change for the worse if they implement it in a resentful , half-hearted or half-baked fashion , and under these conditions even the brightest and the best schemes are going to flop .
5 In this context — and in many others where the contrast between rich and poor is not so extreme — readers of NSS are among the rich .
6 These texts share a fighting tone and a conviction that established forms of literary study , and in some cases even the concept of literature itself , have to be overthrown .
7 Feudal organizations provided historical precedents for and in some cases even the institutional forms for modern corporatism ( Maier , 1981 ; Kocka , 1981 ) .
8 The trick here was never less than eight feet wide and in some places where the ground was soft it spread to thirty or forty feet .
9 The thorax is composed of three segments , the pro- , meso- and metathorax. in almost all insects each segment bears a pair of legs and in most adults both the meso- and metathorax carry a pair of wings .
10 That question must be determined by reference to general principles , or which the first ( and in most cases also the last ) is that judicial proceedings are supposed to take place openly , and publication of those proceedings is ‘ merely enlarging the area of the court , and communicating to all that which all has the right to know ’ ( per Lord Halsbury , L.C. in MacDougall v. Knight [ 1989 ] A.C. 194 at p.200 .
11 As will be seen in the next chapter , when the republican wing under de Valera took over as the Fianna Fáil party in the 1930s , constitutional law was restructured , according to both a reformed republican ideology and current Roman social teaching , and in those areas where the high clergy thought it necessary .
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