Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fertility increases in Britain occurred in a modest way in the later 1930s and much more strikingly between the mid-1950s and 1960s . |
| 2 | He walked right through the ghosts and through the entrance they had opened . |
| 3 | Back at the river , walk down the track , turning right through the trees and follow the Tweed to St Boswells . |
| 4 | SUPERCHUNK — On The Mouth ( City Slang ) : Superchunk check in somewhere between the Pixies and the Buzzcocks with a bit of grunge topping . |
| 5 | Somewhere between the Mongols and the present day the lands to the north of the Black Sea acquired the name Ukraina , which means ‘ at the border ’ . |
| 6 | He clambered aboard the coach , the juniors raised a brief , cheeky cheer , half mocking and half friendly , the driver hoisted himself imperturbably into his cab , and the coach started up and surged ponderously through the gates and away along the Silcaster road . |
| 7 | Thus , one could take a random sample of the battalions first and then on through the companies and platoons until the actual individual soldiers were sampled only from a limited number of platoons instead of from the whole brigade . |
| 8 | Inexorably Rose moved on through the entremets and coffee , sending eight people scurrying in all directions as he masterminded the performance , the objects of which were far from clear to Auguste . |
| 9 | The information in the series of guides by J. Watson Lyall which begin in 1873 is mostly about the shootings and fishings . |
| 10 | The information in the series of guides by J. Watson Lyall which begin in 1873 is mostly about the shootings and fishings . |
| 11 | Some teenage mothers complain bitterly about the attitudes and treatment they receive in antenatal clinics and classes and in hospital , which are sometimes patronising and even rude . |
| 12 | I think now of the way the shaggy but emaciated-looking , dull-eyed sheep who wander so wearily about the paths and tracks of the Forest of Dean find their way into the brick bus shelters on nights such as this . |
| 13 | The sight of the European Community 's civilised , like-minded nations bickering on about the pros and cons of more joint government , with ethnic war on their doorstep and a great deal to achieve across a newly opened continent , would seem absurd to any visiting Gulliver . |
| 14 | When you were talking earlier on about the bombs and the detonator coming in , where were they stored , at the docks or were they |
| 15 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) , I have personal views about some of those matters , but we should await the report , when we will have a little more to go on about the circumstances and how this could have happened . |
| 16 | ‘ He was aware that Oz had to be diverse ’ , observes David Widgery , ‘ and that there was an interesting debate going on between the hippies and the politicos . |
| 17 | He said some kind of game was probably going on between the children and Timothy Gedge . |
| 18 | Now it seems to me with erm with great respect from the view of the taxing officer , that er it 's quite clear that er both parties were holding han were holding their hands in relation to a question of taxation because negotiations were going on between the parties and indeed the defendants were being requested er not to proceed with taxation but to see if they could obtain an overall assessment and the point was met to the defendants barrister , telling quite frankly there would n't be much advantage in the defendants pushing on with erm taxation because they 'd only , they would have to look to his interest in the property to get payment , it seems to me in those circumstances that it can not be said that erm the plaintiffs were in any way acting improperly and not seeking to have the costs taxed during the period while the negotiations were being carried on er because effectively and |
| 19 | Take this turn and after a couple of miles the road narrows incredibly through the hedges and stone houses of the village . |
| 20 | Then , still without speaking , Mr Dakin moved unhurriedly between the cows and a faint chink of metal sounded as he fastened the chain around Blossom 's neck . |
| 21 | The way in which things are made has changed slowly through the millennia and much more rapidly during the last two centuries . |
| 22 | You 're almost sure to be right about the spells and enchantments . |
| 23 | Perhaps there was something not quite right about the files and the ledgers . |
| 24 | 9/Face completed ; washes of paint from the crayon were put on after the eyebrows and eyelashes were drawn in . |
| 25 | The colour range is amazing and there is generally enough for the hems and sewing on the buttons of one garment on each reel . |
| 26 | Eventually things got cool enough for the protons and neutrons to fuse and form atomic nuclei ; later still it was possible for electrons to cling to the nuclei , thus creating atoms . |
| 27 | They do n't have to worry too much about the eventualities and all the other sins that the planning process is concerned with . |
| 28 | She needed to live his life with him , if only through the eyes and ears of her dearest friend . |
| 29 | McIntyre was able to drive her almost as fast to windward as the 50-footers and lost nothing on the downwind legs . |
| 30 | Better for the employees and pensioners , he said yesterday , for Pilkington to stay and run the business as it runs its UK operations . |