Example sentences of "the [noun pl] and [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm quite hungry for some breakfast , ’ said Snodgrass , as they followed Caspar along the galleries and down the staircases and through huge , high-ceilinged chambers . |
| 2 | How unlucky that she had met the sons and not the father ! |
| 3 | Fine town houses of the eighteenth century , some of them now embassies , give way slowly to the more compact residences of the nineteenth , then to the woods and then the seaside suburb of Scheveningen . |
| 4 | You were , however , closely linked with the Dadaists and then the Surrealists ? |
| 5 | Despite its cash mountain , South West is still generally seen , perhaps unfairly , as the least attractive of the authorities and privately the Government is worried about its flotation prospects . |
| 6 | He 's heading towards death , he 's in the clutches of the authorities and probably the common people taking a few steps back . |
| 7 | They were the objects and not the subjects of the liberal era . |
| 8 | And the danger presumably is that the surpluses we were having our discussion and debate about earlier on , those surpluses that and I do understand why you feel the pensioners should benefit from their surplus , but it the reality is that the employers and possibly the pensioners are currently arguing amongst themselves for the benefit of those surpluses , but in fact one of the significant contributors is often the deferred pensioners |
| 9 | Some continuity of personnel between the new and the old is often welcomed as the most effective means of preserving the loyalty of the clients and maybe the appointment of the sole practitioner or the senior partner of the acquired business as consultant to the new firm for a limited time will be considered . |
| 10 | Alongside all this , gaining momentum in the second half of the century , was a new taxonomic and labelling zeal which attempted to classify ‘ scientifically ’ the characteristics and increasingly the aetiologies of the forms of sexual variety , and in so doing helped construct them as objects of study and as sexual categories . |
| 11 | On this occasion , at least , the schools and even the general newspapers have not failed the research enterprise . |
| 12 | Now in a way what you could say what we have here is a trunk of a tree and the branches and then the leaves and the fruit at different levels on this . |
| 13 | The opportunities and indeed the pressures for people to fiddle vary widely and Mars suggests a number of ‘ fiddle-prone ’ factors attached to particular occupations . |
| 14 | The only popular spectator sport , as opposed to game , is professional boxing although for reasons I shall come to later , the only sportsmen involved are those backing the contenders and not the participants themselves . |
| 15 | After all , up the lads and down the hatch . |
| 16 | Most of 's societal framework refers to the provinces and not the better known institutions centralized in Paris , an approach that makes a refreshing change . |
| 17 | So hard copy reports are produced out of the ledgers and then the results are taken and keyed into FDC . |
| 18 | At the time of writing , the book is not even officially in the shops and already the scene is notorious . |
| 19 | Paradoxically , the more severe the reflux the higher are the papillae and hence the more likely are the stem cells to be damaged . |
| 20 | Oil your hands a little more generously this time and slide them over the shoulders and up the back of the neck . |
| 21 | The muscling of the shoulders and especially the thighs is almost obscene but the small-boned carcass and large body produce an abundance of lean meat . |
| 22 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
| 23 | She had decided it ought n't to be too difficult to slip into the stables and up the ladder first , but this time she did n't even reach the water pail . |
| 24 | Back at the end of the nineteenth century , the Milanese anatomist Camillo Golgi had discovered almost by chance a stain , based on the use of silver salts , which has the capacity to select out , seemingly at random , a small proportion of the neurons in a section of tissue and stain each immaculately , revealing every last detail not just of its cell body but also the dendrites and even the myriad little spines which stud the dendrites ' surfaces . |
| 25 | And once the crossroads were taken , then no British troops could reach the Prussians and thus the armies would be irrevocably split and the Emperor would have won his campaign . |
| 26 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |
| 27 | It may be reasonably speculated that English ethnocentricity , then as now , would assume that , first the Scots and later the Irish , were let into Westminster , but the legislation gives no warrant for this assumption . |
| 28 | Now it seems to me with erm with great respect from the view of the taxing officer , that er it 's quite clear that er both parties were holding han were holding their hands in relation to a question of taxation because negotiations were going on between the parties and indeed the defendants were being requested er not to proceed with taxation but to see if they could obtain an overall assessment and the point was met to the defendants barrister , telling quite frankly there would n't be much advantage in the defendants pushing on with erm taxation because they 'd only , they would have to look to his interest in the property to get payment , it seems to me in those circumstances that it can not be said that erm the plaintiffs were in any way acting improperly and not seeking to have the costs taxed during the period while the negotiations were being carried on er because effectively and |
| 29 | Hats were flung into the air , the cheering reached higher and higher levels , and Dawn Run and Jonjo O'Neill were engulfed as they came back past the stands and up the walkway to the unsaddling enclosure in the parade ring . |
| 30 | In purely practical terms the largest population in Belorussia after the indigenous inhabitants remained from the 1897 to the 1926 census the Jews and not the Russians . |