Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the offspring of a lion and an eagle , with the hindparts of the former and the head , neck , wings and claws of the latter . |
| 2 | The rest of the 50 minutes should be used to look back on the previous lectures and notes on the same topic . |
| 3 | If , however , the land were sold ( at existing use value plus a ‘ hope ’ value that planning permission might be obtained ) at £1,000 , while the full development value was £3,500 , the levy would be paid by both seller and purchaser : £200 by the former and £1,000 by the latter . |
| 4 | The demonstrators , from the opposition Azat , Jeltoksan and Republican parties , demanded a new government and expropriation of the former Communist Party 's assets for the benefit of other parties . |
| 5 | Similar charitable schemes outside London were equally ineffective , yet still the COS and its associates refused to co-operate with local authorities in establishing larger schemes , despite the capacity and willingness of the latter to put the charitable funds to more effective use in such necessary activities as road-building . |
| 6 | Most significant however has been the donation of time and expertise by the many members of the wider research community who have served on the TEI 's Working Committees and Working Groups . |
| 7 | His progress was crowned in April 1317 by his marriage to Elizabeth de Clare , one of the three sisters and co-heiresses of the former Earl of Gloucester , for which again he had Edward to thank . |
| 8 | They were waiting for them inside the restaurant , which turned out to be a smallish place that somehow managed to achieve an atmosphere of casualness and intimacy at the same time . |
| 9 | Several elements of the answer come together in the paper by H. van Tilbeurgh and colleagues on page 814 ; this is a sequel to the same group 's report of last year ( Nature 359 , 159–162 ; 1992 ) , discussed in News and Views in the same issue ( page 107 ) . |
| 10 | He picked up a gin and tonic from the same tray where Belinda had found hers , sipped it and made a face . |
| 11 | The importance of grazing both cows and sheep over the same land ( either together or in succession ) , both for the good of the sward and the health of the livestock , is explained at the beginning of Chapter 6 . |
| 12 | It is best , therefore , to write bass drum and cymbals on the same staff so that one performer can operate both if necessary , e.g. : |
| 13 | Smaller companies that are just experiencing difficulties getting a phone line are not going to want to pay that kind of money , but it may still be worth their while to get in touch with BT , given its extensive knowledge of and contacts within the former Eastern bloc . |
| 14 | Similarly , unemployed people who can show they have used their time constructively , in study or voluntary work for example , will be able to match themselves to jobs demanding the qualities this demonstrates — initiative , hard work , flexibility , reliability , etc. — and possibly pick up some useful skills and experience at the same time . |
| 15 | Inevitably an author writes from his understanding and perspective ; a user probably has a different background , level of understanding and experience of the same subject . |
| 16 | Those concerned in the meaner and first employments are called in common , working men or labourers , and the labouring poor such as the mere husbandman , miners , diggers , fishers and in short , all the drudges and labourers in the several productions of nature or of art . |
| 17 | In northern Europe , however , factors such as population growth , urbanisation and industrialisation during the latter half of the nineteenth century produced a gradual change of heart , although the initial move towards the idea of protecting natural wilderness was encouraged primarily by European sportsmen who became concerned by the diminishing herds of game animals in the colonies ( MacKenzie , 1989 ) . |
| 18 | So he had lived in childhood and adolescence in the same country rectory , taking part each Sunday in a familiar liturgy which reflected , interpreted , and sanctified the changing seasons of the farming year . |
| 19 | A great deal of traffic was involved in moving ammunition and bombs for the many airfields in the vicinity . |
| 20 | Landowners were , however , allowed to retain the rights of pasture and of cutting wood which they had previously enjoyed , subject to the customary payment of ‘ puture ’ to the foresters , and ‘ saving always to the king his deer and pasture for the same ’ . |
| 21 | A different press is needed , and a different paper is desirable , so to print pictures and text on the same page is awkward . |
| 22 | Mr Benenson pinpointed four main areas that Amnesty needs to continue to address : the growing abuse of human rights in Asia , and in China in particular , the right to travel freely , ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe and states of the former Soviet Union ; and the need for successful multi-party elections in Africa . |
| 23 | Percy Marlborough Stewart left to the people of Pocklington his collection of water-lilies , one of the finest in Europe , and the Stewart collection containing illustrations and objects of the many countries of the world which he visited on his hunting expeditions . |
| 24 | Atari makes it more difficult by writing into the operating system ( the instructions that govern how the computer handles data ) an instruction that does not allow the computer to talk to disc drive and cartridge at the same time . |
| 25 | Planning officials are recommending Hartlepool Council 's development control sub-committee rejects a plan to build eight flats , a shop and garages on the former Ringtons Tea site and an adjoining builders yard in Oxford Road . |
| 26 | February orders in the US , based on the usual three-month moving average , rose 0.8% on the average figure for the three months to January , to $2,065m and shipments on the same basis rose 2.2% to $1,750m . |
| 27 | Market demand for it has been much higher than expected and there is n't the manufacturing capacity to build both four and five-speeds for the same application . |
| 28 | Titration studies in gall gladder bile were undertaken with HCl and NaOH in the same patients as studied by CO 2 equilibration . |
| 29 | Drawbacks : Expensive but , in terms of what it can do , this microwave is good enough to replace a conventional oven ( although remember cooking space is limited in that you could n't , say , do the roast and vegetables at the same time ) . |
| 30 | between different towns and cities within the same administrative region ( in the North West , between Crewe or Nantwich as relatively successful economically , Liverpool as very unsuccessful ) ; |