Example sentences of "and [pron] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In respect of each individually insured private dwelling house maisonette apartment or flat and its outbuildings the amount excluded shall be limited to £500 |
| 2 | Ratings for the Conservative Party and for Thatcher were the most predictable , ratings for the Alliance and its leaders the least predictable . |
| 3 | It is my hope that the representatives from the parishes will offer the Diocese and its Agencies the needs which are to be met by the parishes , with support from the Diocese , in the theme for 1994 . |
| 4 | In this Agreement and its Schedules the following expressions have the following meanings : |
| 5 | The Volga and its tributaries the Oka and Kama and the Ob and its tributaries Irtysh and Tobol are the most polluted . |
| 6 | The ANC and its allies the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) intended that the general strike on Aug. 3-4 and the three following days of nationally co-ordinated protests should be the climax of the protest action which had begun on June 16 [ see p. 38948 ] . |
| 7 | And , if they have read the passage , they might well be forgiven for entering it as further evidence , if evidence were needed , in support of their view that evolutionary Socialism is anathema and its proponents the prime enemy . |
| 8 | Although there were some reservations of this kind in both industry and the institutions the balance of opinion was with the sandwich course , and within the Committee for Science and Technology and its boards the commitment to sandwich courses remained strong . |
| 9 | To the Colonisation Commission and its supporters the start of the First World War offered a solution to all their problems . |
| 10 | To publish critical anthologies is to court redundancy , but the Kael corpus endures : fast , funny and incisive , her distinctive style remains the most influential , and her opinions the most quoted of any reviewer . |
| 11 | Among poisonous jellyfish and their relatives the Portuguese man-o'-war ( opposite ) is notorious as a killer , but despite its reputation there is no authenticated record of it having caused a human death . |
| 12 | In complete contrast , ruched or festoon blinds are both pretty and feminine , and can be lavish and opulent depending on the fabric used and their surroundings The fabric of ruched blinds is permanently gathered up in rows along its length , forming a ruched scalloped appearance over the whole surface of the blind . |
| 13 | The Birmingham-based specialist wholesaler ran a competition which gave booksellers and their customers the chance to win a trip to the Grand Canyon . |
| 14 | Moreover , the modern status of officially recognized ‘ languages ’ , as opposed to ‘ dialects ’ — always a controversial question — obscures the fact that , for instance , Khanty has as many as five ‘ dialects ’ which are by no means mutually comprehensible ; the far-flung Evenki Tungus have at least three groups of dialects , and their cousins the Evens as many as thirteen ; and the Nenets Samoeds of the forest have three rather different ‘ dialects ’ , although those of the tundra have a single common language . |
| 15 | Above all he had conceived a mission to " clean up Cardiff " by " fighting The System " by which the " slimily cunning oddments of humanity " , the boarding house keepers , the cafe owners , the Red Lamp proprietors , even the laundrymen , battened on the sailors and their families The Achilles Heel of " The System " was , he concluded , the Chinese element in the port , especially when Chinese seamen were brought in from outside and used as blacklegs by the employers . |
| 16 | It was the revolutionaries who were the villains , the Royals and their supporters the good and kind and handsome heroes . |
| 17 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 18 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 19 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 20 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 21 | Open Houses are for any mums and their children the majority of whom are obviously of pre-school age . |
| 22 | No doubt to the consternation of the parties and their representatives the order announced by the bench was substantially different from the order that they had been invited to make by the consenting parties . |
| 23 | In the early sixties , the teddy boys were succeeded by the mods , and their counterparts the rockers . |
| 24 | The main threat now came from the north and west : from the Picts and their allies the Irish , with whom Aldfrith [ q.v . ] , |
| 25 | I read a lot , Joe , and it appears to me that every man , even every thinking man has always had a different view of the same subject ; the more I read of men and their lives and their ideas the more I realise there 's no black and white in the world ; there 's good points to be found even in the blackest , and there 's some very dark streaks in the so-called saints . |
| 26 | This also implies , as recognized by the community development activists of the 1970s and their inheritors the ‘ local socialists ’ , that poverty is a political condition as much if not more than a social or economic one . |
| 27 | Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines . |
| 28 | The intention was that the electors should choose to be governed by persons they recognized as better and wiser than themselves , who might well understand better than the people themselves what their real interests were , and whose decisions the people would therefore accept . |
| 29 | It is a function of family breakdown , which takes place over generations and whose consequences the Government will have to tackle . |
| 30 | A century later , Cicero attributed to Scipio Aemilianus and his friends the introduction of Socrates ' teaching in Rome . |