Example sentences of "and [prep] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thin streaks of cirrus lay parallel to the horizon , and between them the sun 's orb had become a well-defined sphere of a rich rose-crimson . |
| 2 | As they talked about the war years and about what the future might hold for them both , Julia found herself liking Felicity more and more , although she was astonished at the freedom with which Felicity was prepared to confide in her about everything except her work during the war . |
| 3 | First , there is the conversion of a sol ( a colloidal solution ) to a gel ( or an infinitely connected network of polymer chains ) , which is approximately described as formally similar to a critical phenomenon , and for which the formalism of scaling theories is applicable and secondly , the conversion of the gel to a much less compliant , rigid glass , which is governed by diffusion processes . |
| 4 | Agreement between ( the Insurers ) and ( the Society ) in relation to policies of insurance issued by the Insurers in the joint names of the Society and any of its borrowers on properties mortgaged to the Society and for which the Society does not act as the Insurers ' agent for the collection of premiums . |
| 5 | However , these congruences are in different planes from the congruences on which the two wave components propagate , and for which the contraction and shear clearly become unbounded as . |
| 6 | But the alias he preferred , and for which the State Department gave him his false passport , was William P. Goode . |
| 7 | Begun in the 1250s , it was several times remodelled and in the 1470s King Matthias added a fine tower which still stands and for which the Church has been named since . |
| 8 | This then is a brief résuméof the problems which must be recognized by any indexer and for which the index must allow . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it is unrealistic to expect clients always to seek advice on these matters from sources other than the building designer , and a basic knowledge of planning law , compensation and the individual vagaries in attitudes of planning authorities is often the basis of releasing latent development value which is of tangible benefit and for which the client is prepared to pay high rewards . |
| 10 | The Vendor in relation to the Business is not and has not since the Balance sheet Date been engaged in any legal proceedings ( civil or criminal ) or arbitration as plaintiff , defendant or otherwise howsoever ( except as plaintiff in normal debt collection and in respect of which the aggregate amount of debts due to the Vendor and for which the Vendor is engaged or likely to become engaged in proceedings prior to Completion does not exceed £500 ) and there are no circumstances likely to lead to any legal proceedings or arbitration ( whether against the Vendor or by the Vendor any third party ) . |
| 11 | In fact there are very few goods that are pure public goods ; that is , goods that yield benefits from which nobody can be excluded and for which the amount the individual can consume does not diminish as the number of consumers increases . |
| 12 | The requirement will be smaller if the only decision is assigning each student to a set ( variously called a group , laboratory class , split , etc. ) for which the timetabled hours and rooms are already determined , and for which the teacher will be ( or be provided by ) the module leader . |
| 13 | It is a heartening sight , evocative of all the sun and bright colours of Provence ; it is economical because it is one of those composite dishes which you gradually build up , to which you can make additions or subtractions and for which the planning of the colours , flavours , extra salads , vegetables , sauces , becomes perfectly intoxicating — but steady , keep a hold , or you 'll find you 've made enough food for thirty , and you 'll have to order another case of wine and invite twenty more guests … |
| 14 | ‘ I started out with a mission and for me the mission is n't over … and that is to bring the heavyweight title to England . ’ |
| 15 | And for me the beginning was when I was young ; before the Soviets , before the Nazis . |
| 16 | I came to believe that in the S.A.S. he had realised his ideal of chivalry in a contemporary setting ; and that with our marriage and my acceptance of his decision , the two halves of his nature had come together , and for him the enigma of character had been resolved . |
| 17 | This kind of response is based on the view that women are one of those ‘ minorities ’ ( sic ) who are disadvantaged and for whom the mission of adult education is to provide the wherewithal to cope with their misfortunes . |
| 18 | I ask those who have , as it were , been in bondage , and for whom the prison doors are now opening to show their thanks by comporting themselves quietly and with dignity . |
| 19 | When their moment of glory is over , they merge once more into the mass of peasant farmers who speak broken Spanish and for whom the city is alien territory . |
| 20 | For many decades , a deposit of £150 was required and even the £500 now suggested will not necessarily deter the strip club owner or pop star who is otherwise lacking in publicity and for whom the outlay of such a sum may well be worthwhile . |
| 21 | Those at St Germain never questioned the validity of James II 's acts as King , and for them the Revolution remained totally unjustifiable . |
| 22 | The socialist parties thought of themselves as the avant-garde of a class which was striving to bring into existence a new kind of society , and for them the struggle for power of the working class was , in principle , more important than any existing institutions . |
| 23 | It was a satisfaction to me many years later , when I was a member of a Royal Commission on Tribunals of Enquiry , established to advise how secrets should be dealt with , that I was able to persuade the chairman of the Commission , Lord Salmon , and through him the whole of the Commission , to recommend that there should never again be an inquiry of the Denning type , where a single individual was authorised to investigate any piece of gossip or scandal relating to any prominent public person . |
| 24 | Here were audio spaces that , in certain instances , bled around comers out of sight of their sources ; sculptural/architectural spaces around and through which the viewer must travel ; virtual spaces of onscreen worlds ; visual spaces of Greenbergian flatness , for example in Susan Hiller 's well-known Belshazzar 's Feast ( 1983–4 ) , where images of flame move towards the purity of pixels ( though she also devotes attention to the generation of images and gestalts from the eye itself ) ; geographical spaces , notably in the move of Judith Goddard 's environmental sculpture , Electron ( 1987 ) , from Dartmoor indoors . |
| 25 | The High Authority , and through it the ECSC , suffered a loss of prestige : the supranational agencies , after all , had been established precisely to handle that kind of crisis . |
| 26 | Unlike the proceedings of the general council twelve years before , these were the meetings of a debating society , not a struggle for power to control the army and through it the government of the country . |
| 27 | The blowhole itself is the hinged flap of a watertight valve , and through it the dolphin can empty and refill its lungs in the unbelievably short time of one-fifth of a second . |
| 28 | The sponsorship lasts as long as Kotoko remain in the competition and during it the club will wear Guinness product branded jerseys in all their home matches and Guinness Ghana has exclusive rights to stadium advertising and airtime during all Kotoko international matches on GBC television . |
| 29 | So many conductors — and I must say Furtwängler was sometimes one of these — create enormous crescendi ; and after them the music collapses . |
| 30 | The passage of Resolution 678 was achieved before the deadline of Nov. 30 which the USA had set itself , and after which the chairmanship of the Security Council would pass by alphabetical rotation from the USA to Yemen for the month of December . |