Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it is only a small island with a few houses and the great cathedral with its accompanying church , S. Fosca . |
| 2 | he assaulted me a f few times and the last time he did it I involved the police and he was in court last Thursday and he was found guilty of assault . |
| 3 | We are concerned if we perform badly or dangerously at some times and the effects of poor performance will also be of interest to managers and the general public . |
| 4 | But the time should still be only a few minutes and the parent should go to collect the child and indicate when it is appropriate to join the family again . |
| 5 | each , each time you pulled a handle it did one job and er could n't tell you really now what it was , you know but er you 'd pull the five handles in a few minutes and the damn thing was done . |
| 6 | Such increases in tannin in browsed Acacia nigrescens in southern Africa have been reported to take place in a few minutes and the production of ethylene during damage has been considered to be the promoter of tannin increase . |
| 7 | It should be feasible to employ the review form in some cases and the de novo form in others , depending on the nature of the problems encountered in the primary investigation . |
| 8 | Skipper Andy Townsend , another Norwich old boy said : ‘ If we can get them all back fit again , get a few wins and the confidence going , there 's no reason why we ca n't get up there . ’ |
| 9 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 10 | Other issues raised in this report included the pooling of the internal audit service of some authorities and the establishment of audit committees . |
| 11 | Throughout the debate , shortfall has been defined as the gap between fees charged by some homes and the maximum level of income support which we will pay for different categories of persons in those homes . |
| 12 | I tried to pull myself out but my foot was caught in some branches and the current squashed the canoe hard up against me , allowing me no movement . |
| 13 | The black culture will have a significant , if not dominant , place in your family perspective because every other influence will be portraying and reinforcing the white culture — hence a token attempt with a few books and the occasional embarrassed conversation will not combat it . |
| 14 | After a few pleasantries and the shaking of many hands , I accompanied the column for a short distance along the road . |
| 15 | The archbishop could delay and immensely complicate matters , but his appeal to Rome in August 1297 had been barred , his excommunication of violators was countered by a writ of prohibition , his resolution was isolated by the alarmist fears of some clergy and the divided loyalties of others , especially those who were the king 's servants ; above all , Boniface VIII 's temporizing in France suggested that no archbishop henceforth could rely on papal support . |
| 16 | These include jacanas , tinamous , phalaropes , some sandpipers and the dunnock . |
| 17 | And er I was dragging behind a few paces and the headmaster was watching out of his study window you see ? |
| 18 | ‘ We had been working together with the county council for some months and the failure of this appeal was extremely disappointing . |
| 19 | Corbett whispered a few words and the friar looked up sharply and nodded . |
| 20 | ‘ A few words and the offer of deep cups of claret . ’ |
| 21 | There are many exciting new product launches planned for the next few months and the prospects for 1991 look very good . |
| 22 | Timman unleashed some tactics and the watching grandmasters switched their allegiance . |
| 23 | The Post Office sells a few souvenirs and the cafe sells sandwiches " to go " , and there is a converted barn selling walking gear and souvenirs with a smashing little tea shop . |
| 24 | At Monza , he beat Jochen Rindt by a few feet and the championship was his , even though he did not win another race that season . |
| 25 | The man 's foot had broken a few spokes and the chain had come off , but there was no other damage . |
| 26 | This is the which is actually much further on in its decoration that most of the rooms , in fact all it really needs is some cushions and the window glass here . |
| 27 | It presupposes a reasonable belief in the existence of some other reasons for which consent is valid in some circumstances and the misled person 's mistaken belief that these reasons apply to his case . |
| 28 | He made a few passes and the castle diminished and shrank , as you see it now , and he made a pass or two more and it was walled with glass as you see . |
| 29 | Until recently this has been a rare occurrence , but increasingly local authorities are devising strategies to involve parents in case conferences , despite professional reluctance in some areas and the genuine problems that this poses . |
| 30 | One of the chief limitations on cowries as currency is that their value was liable to be severely depressed by reason of the huge quantities in which they occur in some areas and the fact that they could so readily be transported by ship . |