Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [Wh det] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 born in Church Street I , I was only one , there were no brothers or sisters which for the record , I regret because all around me I had cousins , dozens of them and erm the families round me was big families and it was the , there was er times when it was bad weather or something like that and you could n't congregate outside , you 'd go to somebody 's house , are you coming ?
2 The results of all the foregoing may be a fire or fires which on the arrival of the fire brigade have either developed as could be anticipated in the absence of an automatic extinguishing system or a situation where fire has gained a substantial hold and is being retarded in its growth by a sprinkler system reduced to some degree from its designed effectiveness .
3 Governments were becoming increasingly unwilling to tolerate many of the ambiguities , compromises and uncertainties which in the fifteenth , sixteenth and even seventeenth centuries had often been the essence of relations between them .
4 we have obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief are necessary for the purpose of our audit .
5 There were also some devices which counterbalanced this continual splitting of family resources , such as the partnership system of the family firm , marriage between cousins , and setting up trusts to provide income for daughters and wives which at the same time allowed the trustees , who were always men , to use the trust capital for the business .
6 The scale of injustice , cruelty , and tyranny in the world in 1988 cries out for continuing protest of various forms including the democratic and peaceful marches and assemblies which in the 1960s helped to achieve greater civil rights in the USA and in many other nations , whilst the same phenomenon , sometimes more disorderly , hastened the end of U.S. participation in the Vietnam War .
7 A consciousness of belonging to a coherent professional group was both expressed and strengthened by the appearance , from the mid-nineteenth century onwards , of guides and yearbooks which for the first time listed the diplomats and foreign office officials in the service of most of the European states .
8 Then it breaks out over an overlap onto the characteristic smooth slabs and walls which at the same time tempt and intimidate , attract but repel .
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