Example sentences of "the [noun pl] and [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By far the most effective way of changing the cubic capacity of the ocean basins is to vary the volume of the mid-ocean ridges ; increase in volume will cause a displacement of sea water on to the continents and vice versa . |
| 2 | Erm they looked after the w the ropes and er there was one one blacksmith , where he used to go on his rounds and check check the wire ropes and the hooks and that on the inclines you know . |
| 3 | No it 's not realistic because you know that there are thousands of people involved with the in the Garrimpos and er there is no way you could er shut them down without offering them an alternative . |
| 4 | Erm and finally , w we do get one or two smaller items of income from er selling of the maps and erm other items . |
| 5 | It was also a vital information centre , where spies mingled with oilmen , where officials of the local security forces met heir hookers , and where the waiters brought valuable intelligence every morning from their homes in the rabbit warrens in the ghettos and barrios where few diplomats or reporters dared go . |
| 6 | But if you go down that road even further there was er a , a couple there bought one of the houses and er |
| 7 | Fig 1 — This voltage-ratio/frequency converter produces a TTL-compatible output pulse train that equals KVN/VD , where VN and VD are the inputs and K=4R2C1 . |
| 8 | We 'll do it as clerk of the scales and er we 'll inform him that that 's on you know one |
| 9 | It 's called the Hotel Leisure and Conference Centre , it 's actually based at Chorley or Charley if you come from that neck of the woods and er everybody that goes will be able to use the lagoon swimming pool er or challenge someone to a game of squash on one of our six courts . |
| 10 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 11 | Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan says and I might say so , slightly mischievously , well after all he 's going to appoint the appointers and going to make the short list , short list for the Right My Right Honourable Friend to appoint , but of course somebody 's got to appoint the appointers and er that would be done by the by my Right Honourable Friend , but that does n't mean to say for goodness sake that they 're in his pocket . |
| 12 | Now , when one of us is describing a restaurant , there is intensive cross-questioning about the quality of the puddings and petits fours , and commiseration if they do not sound up to scratch : ‘ Do you mean they only gave you one chocolate truffle each ! ’ |
| 13 | Well the agent , that be either or any agent who , who the ship belonged to , see they 'd , they 'd get through , no doubt they 'd get through to the merchants and er they 'd find out who the agent is and once they knew the agents well it was plain sailing was n't it ? |
| 14 | So that literally means the developer will pay all the teachers that might be in a school , pay all the people to sweep the roads and a a and and everything else . |
| 15 | So I well I sent him er our sheets , er sheet about the group and the minutes and er I contacted Michael er , who said he 'll be very happy to help in , so I er phoned up this chap and said , gave him Michael 's number and said erm he 'd like to come to this meeting tonight , he said yes , so I went to pick him up and I just could n't find that blinking house , anyone who knows Harlow , he 's in Parsonage Leys , I just could n't find the number it was , I just could n't find anything less than thirty seven |
| 16 | With the ploughmen and er in my own case I remember going to the house where I was er I was to be the ploughman for this so called horseman you see ? |
| 17 | Um and erm well anyway the frequencies and er various kind of frequencies of various kinds of activity are mentioned on the handout so you can er you can see that for yourself . |
| 18 | we 've inherited from the states and er replicating throughout throughout throughout the U K and into Europe . |
| 19 | Prize winner already with Ken and Jimmy James and the Vagabonds and er the postal competition winners coming up now . |
| 20 | The Alliance was indissolubly linked to local ratepayers ' organisations — most notably the Forest Gate Ratepayers ' Association ( FGRA ) — which functioned as an effective lobby for those who felt most threatened by rate increases , namely , the manufacturers and petit bourgeoisie . |
| 21 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 22 | okay when you get those cut out you can just play with them just get used to the sizes and the shapes and erm make sure that you ask someone . |
| 23 | So , so that 's been a great improvement I think , erm in recent years and , and in the erm early seventies we , we also went into the business of providing equipment that could be left at rescues , on site , you know it was always tying up a fire engine by taking it there and , and being tied up so we provided these things which we call demountable equipment , which we commonly call the pods and erm |
| 24 | Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see |
| 25 | Well Tommy used to slaughter all his cattle and er you see my father-in-law 's bakehouse and his slaughter house were next to one another an open yard at the back of the shops and er |
| 26 | To date the disc range includes Borders and Yokes , the Kids and Pot Pourri Fair Isle books and the Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter collections . |
| 27 | That 's just some very interesting talk that I heard about , and one with erm , the porters and erm , . |
| 28 | I 've asked him about that and what he said is that er , he was saving up and he was going tax the vehicle as soon he was able to do so but he did n't have the funds and er , to do so at , at that time . |
| 29 | Do you think this er really goes back to the fundamental issue which the Good Committee did n't really address which was the issue of ownership of the pension funds and assets and that whilst pensioners and to an extent employers these days regard the pension fund as deferred pay and pensions payments as deferred pay , the ownership of those funds is still left erm neither still er an argument about wh wh who owns the funds and er a lot of this follows on from that . |
| 30 | And from C P R E's point of view we we would feel that the best way to do that is to is to reconvene if that 's the right word , the forum of Greater York authorities to look in more detail at at each of the sectors and under undertake the the technical comparison I think in a in in a fair and reasonable way which which I do n't think we 've really we 've really achieved during erm three hours of discussion today . |