Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for the pensioners the battle was won . |
| 2 | And through the drifts the snowy clifts |
| 3 | There is a great emphasis on sport and outdoor pursuits , and during the holidays the cadets are obliged to take part in adventurous training activities both in the UK and abroad . ’ |
| 4 | This is not intended to be an exhaustive list and throughout the observations the main questions in the HMI 's mind are : Is the range of work suitable for the children ? |
| 5 | In part two soccer action on the pitch , and behind the scenes the police operation to control the crowds . |
| 6 | As I said you mention it may be something which is out of our field and we 'll have to make sure that the arguments for and against the problems the problem . |
| 7 | His face was a picture of red ferocity , the straggling red hair and beard , the bloodshot eyes , the gaunt-featured face burnt red by wind and sun , which yet showed on the cheekbones and under the eyes the bruising stain of tiredness . |
| 8 | Nearer the sea and along the rivers the soils were all fine silt . |
| 9 | Now he it is , of course , who creates them , and by that very fact can claim to have moved triumphantly beyond immobility — the overall achievement of Dubliners , and within the stories the hints of differentness of which I spoke . |
| 10 | A tan is healthy only as long as you give your skin adequate protection from damaging rays and in the mountains the sun can be particularly strong . |
| 11 | Few wars can have achieved so much and , as one MP wrote from Westminster on 4 April 1713 , ‘ In the churches the bells , in the streets the bonfires , and in the windows the illuminations , proclaimed the joy of the people . ’ |
| 12 | The days were shorter now , and in the mornings the dairy worked by candlelight . |
| 13 | The development of Amazonia began in 1960 after the completion of the Belém-Brasilia highway that opened up the eastern part , and in the mid-1960s the government adopted numerous policies that , via tax incentives , were designed to encourage private sector development ( Browder 1988 ) . |
| 14 | Campra , whose expressed aim was to combine French musical expression with Italian liveliness , was perhaps copying the acknowledged pioneer of the French cantata , Jean-Baptiste Morin : four of the 12 works in Morin 's first two collections ( 1706,1707 ) introduce only a change of mode from air to air by way of contrast , and in the others the only secondary keys used in principal movements are the relative , IV and V. But as Morin was an otherwise obscure figure it is more likely that Campra was pursuing his own ideals , themselves anchored in Lullian tradition . |
| 15 | In the twentieth century the battles have been over quite different issues and in the courts the hitherto ancillary matters of child custody and maintenance have come to the fore . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a different land where the sun shines bright and in the deserts the rocks are too hot in the day for eagles to land , ’ he continued . |
| 17 | Then came the passage , which appeared on the television news that evening and in the papers the next day , about the Liberal Democrats being the Trojan horse that would let Labour in . |
| 18 | More ! ’ and in the wings the sergeant said , ‘ Do you feel like it , Maggie ? ’ and she shook her head , saying , ‘ I could n't , not tonight , Sergeant . ’ |
| 19 | Crown counsel did not make any offer of the statements and in the circumstances the learned trial judge was entitled to assume that there were no discrepancies or inconsistencies therein and to refuse to order production of the statements . |
| 20 | The river breezes fan the town , and in the evenings the tree-lined Corniche is one of the finest promenades in the world . |
| 21 | You can find me here any time of the day and in the evenings the family join me to work out and swim . ’ |
| 22 | For meal times , the pleasant dining-room 's design is particularly spacious and in the kitchens the hotel chefs pride themselves on offering good , typically Italian style cooking at dinner and an ample breakfast each morning . |
| 23 | The hedgerows seemed full of flowers , wild roses and deep blue trails of wild pea and in the ditches the lacy umbelliferous wands of cow parsley and meadow.sweet and lady 's mantle . |
| 24 | There was the house as well , and over the years the children ; more and more children , four boys and three girls . |
| 25 | ‘ Nearby there was an old hermit — Servanus , who became St Servanus — and he took in the child and over the years the child became his dearest friend , his Myn Ghu or Mungo . |
| 26 | Also , radiation doses are cumulative 5 and over the years the International Commission on Radiation Protection ( ICRP ) has steadily lowered its maximum permissible whole-body doses recommended for occupational exposure . |
| 27 | From the '70s to the '80s the handful which initially was Cobham Christian Fellowship grew to number 250 , and since the mid-1980s the group has been committed to church planting . |
| 28 | He was a joiner and on the islands the joiners had to do undertaking . |
| 29 | As in the Merchant Service , a close friendship usually developed between the Commanding Officer and the Chief Engineer , and on the cutters the Commander usually tried to sail with the same chief whenever possible . |
| 30 | The warm sunshine of autumn shone on the fields , and on the trees the leaves were red and gold . |