Example sentences of "and [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did your husband , or did he not , complain that the houseboat Grace , apart from being damp , needed extensive repairs , and that it was difficult if not impossible for you to resume any meaningful sexual relationship when your cabin acted as a kind of passageway with your daughters constantly going to and fro to gain access to the hatch , and a succession of persons , including the milkman , trampling overhead ? |
| 2 | The scheme is said to have the backing of the Royal Warrant Holders ' Association and not to need permission from the Palace . |
| 3 | Both Parties appear to wish to maintain the current level of spending in relation to other government expenditure and possibly to sever Education from the Ministry of Culture . |
| 4 | Thankfully he landed on it for a moment , moving his body back and forth to keep balance with the stress of the wind and peering about him . |
| 5 | Art therapy is applied arbitrarily to Disabled people and has often been used less to benefit Disabled people and more to minimise disruption to the ablebodied world . |
| 6 | Spurred on by the successes of ‘ great experimenters ’ like Galileo , they came more and more to regard experience as the source of knowledge . |
| 7 | 3.5 With effect from carrying out the Tenant 's Works in accordance with clause 3.7 and thereafter to commence business at the Premises for the purpose permitted by the Lease |
| 8 | Most librarians prefer to divide orders amongst a number of booksellers in order to give themselves greater flexibility and a degree of control over the standards of service , and also to make use of the specializations of different dealers . |
| 9 | The man continued to smile and then , with a quick , balanced movement , which in so bulky a man was nimble he moved backwards and sideways to allow Tallboy through the narrow porch into the house . |
| 10 | She hoped to raise people 's awareness of the potential disasters facing the environment and particularly to encourage improvement in the lives of the rural women in East Africa . |
| 11 | His theory is therefore more able to explain change , and even to initiate change through the understanding which it gives . |
| 12 | Gaveston was the favourite of a Prince of the Blood and even to draw steel in the Prince of Wales ' presence could be construed as treason . |
| 13 | In the water , it breathes with its gills like any normal fish , but like the bichir it uses its lungs too , rising every now and then to gulp air from the surface , a talent which is particularly valuable when the water in the pools becomes tepid and foul and loses most of its oxygen . |
| 14 | Freeze provides the ability to stop a session in order to obtain further input data/information or process a higher priority enquiry and then to re-commence session at the point of interrupt . |
| 15 | Of particular importance in this connection is the ability children have to derive the structural regularities of their native language — its grammatical rules — from the utterances of their parents and others around them , and then to make use of the same regularities in the construction of utterances they have never heard before . |
| 16 | If you are just starting a new job of any kind this morning , your first day , then do n't worry , it does n't matter what you do , the odds on the first two things they 'll show you is , where the toilet is , and how to load paper into the photocopier . |
| 17 | It is not open to the health authority to deny liability on the ground that the organism that they injured was not in law the plaintiff and yet to deny responsibility for the defects with which the plaintiff was born on the ground that they inflicted them before birth . |
| 18 | Man-made fibres were first developed to imitate natural ones , and ultimately to keep pace with the growing demand for fabrics , as it is not possible to produce enough from natural sources alone . |
| 19 | learning how and when to give control to the student ; |
| 20 | That that 's how it it started , that 's why they were n't part of the force , is , police were part of a co community , and therefore to have respect for the police , seems to me quite vital if we are to have a real sense of of of justice and and fairness . |