Example sentences of "and [prep] [det] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reith 's domination of the BBC as first Director-General ( i.e. chief executive ) until 1937 is well described as ‘ massive , totalitarian and idiosyncratic , and for many decades the traditions of the BBC seemed to flow directly from his personality ’ ( Curran and Seaton , 1988 , p. 118 ) . |
| 2 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 3 | Many ministers , the most famous of whom were J. Guinness Rogers and A. M. Fairbairn , wrote in the leading monthlies , at least the Liberal ones , and for many years the Congregational minister of Union Chapel , Islington , Henry Allon , edited the much respected British Quarterly Review . |
| 4 | There were several stations in Colombo and for many years the principal mode of transport within the city was the train . |
| 5 | Mr. J.S. Southworth , a Governor and Old Stopfordian , and for many years the School 's representative on the Stockport Education Committee , filled the breach during the Bursar 's illness , and continued to do so after the latter 's untimely death on 28th October . |
| 6 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
| 7 | Mass production on an artificial medium is now possible and for some formulations the endotoxin is extracted . |
| 8 | With the Hammersmith team he took part in the evolution of the heart-lung machine and for some years the Melrose pump-oxygenator was the standard in Britain . |
| 9 | Few of the elderly male messengers now remained , and for some years the Department had recruited women . |
| 10 | His father was a tailor and for some years the young Steen helped him in his business . |
| 11 | They reached the shelter of the brick-built cainca far enough ahead of their pursuers to lock themselves in , and for several minutes the coolies milled around the building , trying without success to smash the stout wooden doors and shutters . |
| 12 | The news was a body blow and for several months the company was on a knife edge . |
| 13 | At the same time a derelict barn offered the possibility of a new and spacious studio , and after several meetings the idea of Herringbroom Studio was born . |
| 14 | But tempers cooled and after some months the City Corporation decided to sell the building on the basis of a planning brief almost identical to SAVE 's proposals . |
| 15 | They would permanently weaken the basis of Unionism , and towards these objectives the energies of the progressive people in the North should be bent in the coming months . |
| 16 | Examples are a new shape of coffee cup or a new transfer pattern applied to plates or attractive and novel computer furniture and with such objects the appearance of the object is important to a person buying it . |
| 17 | ( g ) To lend and advance money or give credit on any terms with or without security to any person , firm or company ( including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing any holding company , subsidiary or fellow subsidiary of , or any other company associated in any way with , the Company ) , to enter into guarantees , contracts of indemnity and suretyships of all kinds , to receive money on deposit or loan upon any terms , and to secure or guarantee in any manner and upon any terms the payment of any sum of money or the performance of any obligation by any person , firm or company ( including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing any such holding company , subsidiary , fellow subsidiary or associated company as aforesaid ) . |
| 18 | ( g ) To lend and advance money or give credit on any terms with or without security to any person , firm or company ( including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing any holding company , subsidiary or fellow subsidiary of , or any other company associated in any way with , the Company ) , to enter into guarantees , contracts of indemnity and suretyships of all kinds , to receive money on deposit or loan upon any terms , and to secure or guarantee in any manner and upon any terms the payment of any sum of money or the performance of any obligation by any person , firm or company ( including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing any such holding company , subsidiary , fellow subsidiary or associated company as aforesaid ) . |
| 19 | Again , some wrongs , such as fraud , in their essence involve a guilty state of mind , and in such cases the extreme youth of the wrongdoer may be inconsistent with the existence of such a state of mind . |
| 20 | A joint venture between competitors or potential competitors may infringe Article 85 of the Treaty of Rome if the participants could reasonably have been expected to enter the market individually , and in such cases the creation of an EEIG will not obviate the need to seek an exemption , or at least a comfort letter , from the Commission . |
| 21 | This data is for a trained writer ( ie. the Freeman vector database contains details of the writer 's handwriting ) , and as can be seen , the number of candidate words can be high , and in such cases the spread of lengths of the candidates is quite wide . |
| 22 | Ministers , of course , give answers on a basis of the advice of their senior civil servants , and in such cases the individual concerned is the Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 23 | The prefixes pre and post are also used to designate certain sclerites of any one of these segments and in such cases the prefixes pre , meso and meta are usually not applied . |
| 24 | And in such cases the non-lexical cues — finger waggings , handshakes and so forth — are indeed superfluous , and the printed text preserves everything that the utterer intended to convey . |
| 25 | The demised property may be part only of the premises on which the tenant carries on business and in such cases the turnover may need to be apportioned . |
| 26 | The rabbits are , of course , moving targets and in such circumstances the shotgun is effective whereas the rifle would fail . |
| 27 | The difference in Conway was that the suspect had asked for a parade , and in such circumstances the Code of Practice on Identification states ( in para. 2.1 of the original Code ; 2.3 of the revised version ) that a parade is mandatory unless it is impracticable to hold one ( Brown [ 1991 ] Crim.L.R. 368 ) . |
| 28 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , on its true construction , section 6(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1980 had to be given a literal meaning ; that where a school was over-subscribed compliance with the preference of all the applicants would necessarily prejudice efficient education , and in such circumstances the school had to have an admissions policy , which would inevitably result in defeating the preference of some applicants , whatever criteria were adopted ; and that , accordingly , since the school was over-subscribed , there was no duty on the governors to give effect to the applicants ' preferences ( post , pp. 100H — 101B , 106H , 107G–H , 108A , G–H ) . |
| 30 | This was partly because few labouring families even among the better paid could afford double contributions and in such families the needs of the man took priority . |