Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC Scottish SO under their conductor-in-chief Jerzy Maksymiuk are firmly in charge of accompaniments for the Hyperion project , and for openers the gift Piers Lane ( born London , lived in Australia ) has the spotlight . |
| 2 | Collar insignia on the khaki jacket were to comprise thee regimental number over the branch device for all ranks below colonel ; and for colonels the national coat of arms was additionally worn in front of the branch device . |
| 3 | And for Christians the Enlightenment has meant that the world of phenomena and , later , the materialistic world have combined to force out the reality of the spiritual realm . |
| 4 | The only other black head coach in NFL history was ‘ Fritz ’ Pollard more than 60 years ago and for years the NFL has been repeatedly criticised by American civil-rights groups for its failure to name a black head coach from its ranks of qualified assistants . |
| 5 | The dank smell of the water was not unpleasant , and for years the scent of la Sologne that enveloped me that night would pierce my memory : a combination of stagnant water , slime , wild mushrooms , wispy dry grasses , sand and well-hung game . |
| 6 | Can I also say that , er yes , we were badly served by the press but I think that er the onus now is on those of us who went to Canberra to be able to share with others and we have been going round to tell others about Canberra to share with you and with others the experience of being present in the World Council of Churches in Canberra . |
| 7 | Many feared they 'd simply eat up the opposition , and with feet the size of human hands and powerful legs to go with them , the records looked set to be broken . |
| 8 | and that obviously affects the kinds of problems they have with regard to income , benefits , debt problems erm and with regards the kind of things they come in to see us about , things like single payments f for things . |
| 9 | Like all Mira stars it is red , and with binoculars the colour is detectable when the star is near maximum . |
| 10 | The displeasure of President Mitterrand , host here for the two-day summit , was also made known , and within hours the Bonn government had backed off any confrontation with its French allies . |
| 11 | SAVE accepted the challenge and within hours the inquiry was over , the inspector having gallantly offered the 10p deposit . |
| 12 | As the audience saw themselves on screen they began to ‘ perform ’ for the cameras and within minutes the whole audience was cheering , singing and even dancing in the aisles . |
| 13 | He snaked off again and within minutes the throng began moving towards dinner , dividing into ten to a table , lowering bottoms onto inadequate chairs , fingering menus , peering at the print through candlelight , scanning their allotted neighbours . |
| 14 | Taylor , from Birkenhead , Merseyside , struck one prison officer , taking his keys , and within minutes the rioters had erected the first of a labyrinth of barricades and begun systematically destroying the chapel . |
| 15 | She quickened her pace and within minutes the half moon of brightness at the end of the tunnel had widened to receive them again into the daylight and he was back , shivering at her side ; |
| 16 | Two minutes into the second half Elwood 's drop goal reinforced Ireland 's victory push and within minutes the same player was on target with a penalty to open up a six point gap . |
| 17 | Should an order for meals need to be altered , or an error be discovered , while unloading is taking place at the plane , the driver of the vehicle supplying the meals can simply radio back to base and within minutes the problem is resolved . |
| 18 | The liquid burst into flames and within minutes the whole building was alight . |
| 19 | But the losses were quickly reversed and within minutes the index had recovered to be 4.7 ahead at 3040.1 . |
| 20 | His move , in January 1988 , turned out to be one of the scheduling masterstrokes of the ‘ 80s , and within months the soap 's ratings had soared towards the 20 million mark and the top to the TV charts . |
| 21 | The crucial power was torn from the hands of the proletariat , and within months the Bolsheviks found themselves on the other side of the barricades . |
| 22 | The crew , moving rapidly yet almost soundlessly , carried out the few jobs required to convert the land vehicle to a boat , and within seconds the rigs slid rapidly into the dark water and powered away to swing out their ramps and couple together in twos and threes . |
| 23 | I replaced the portion of turf , reseeded its damaged edges with ryegrass mix and within weeks the site of the ants ' nest was again as smooth and green as the rest of the lawn . |
| 24 | A 10th Anniversary article in the Observer referred to it as ‘ a small back-room in an alley off London 's Fleet Street , ’ and within days the office was getting letters addressed to ‘ Amnesty , Alley Off Fleet Street ’ . |
| 25 | Dogs in REM sleep sometimes move their legs as if running , and in monkeys the whole face may writhe and twitch . |
| 26 | There was blood everywhere and in minutes the whole scene looked like Custer 's Last Stand . |
| 27 | Lexical edges are labelled with the orthographic form , and in brackets the syntactic label associated with the hypothesized word . |
| 28 | It appears from my own and other research at present that in some schemes young people are used as cheap substitutes for regular workers and in others the content of the ‘ training ’ is very limited — leading to jobs otherwise classified as un- or semi-skilled ( Davies , 1986 . |
| 29 | Stalin was less interested in Korea and the type of state that developed was of idiosyncratic character , in some respects resembling the Soviet Union and in others the kind of communist party devised by Mao Tse-tung during the Yenan era . |
| 30 | In many Coleopteran larvae each maxilla carries a single lobe or mala which in some cases represents the gales and in others the lacinia ( Das , 1937 ) . |