Example sentences of "and the [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stubbs cites many other examples of how written language may involve structural ambiguity so that making grammatical sense of it depends on context and the knowledge the reader brings to the text ( e.g. ibid. p. 59 ) . |
| 2 | And the and the toilet the toilet was adjacent to the , was built on to the house . |
| 3 | He or she is the ‘ fairy godmother ’ of the force , the suspect 's friend , and the person the Act expects will stand up to his or her ( often more senior ) colleagues if there is anything amiss : a dramatic invitation to insubordinated heroics . |
| 4 | Post offices , railway stations and schools had the new , and the rest the old ; in the cottages there was friction as children and their fathers turned up for meals at different times . |
| 5 | It 's all but everybody 's erm everybody 's involved from the word go , so and the structure the so think about that point . |
| 6 | This creates problems for the neighbourhood police when events in the area force other sections of the force to adopt the more aggressive and repressive mode of public order policing , and the success the neighbourhood men have in overcoming communal suspicion depends almost entirely on wider social and political circumstances rather than any feature of their own conduct . |
| 7 | Now it is for these reasons all of these different views and these conflicting opinions coming from authoritative sources and the concern the locals have that this issue has been ramrodded through on a political ticket is is is the very reason why it should go to an inspector appointed by the Secretary of State at least some semblance of independence and that issues brought out in in full public consideration . |
| 8 | The commands of these household manuals imply that the printed word was now the authority in the home , and the housewife the new model of servant obeying its dictates . |
| 9 | But then again , what of Comus and the cockcrow the Younger Brother wishes for ? ‘ 'T WOULD be some solace yet , some little cheering/In this close dungeon of innumerous boughs . ’ |
| 10 | Typical of artists to read nothing except what they happen upon and then to pontificate about life and art and the way the world is going . |
| 11 | ‘ We expect to have the sprayer for five years , and the way the law is changing , closed transfer systems will probably soon be compulsory anyway , ’ thinks Mr Doig . |
| 12 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 13 | George looked with distaste at the rest of his outfit — at the indecently tight green trousers , the silver-shot green scarf in the neck of the jacket , and the way the boy 's flaming red hair curled against it . |
| 14 | Isobel found nothing odd any more in public discussion of her breasts and the milk and the way the baby acted during feeding . |
| 15 | But what made it so was the school , and the way the courses were taught . |
| 16 | In academic and special libraries , the information content of books , and the way the content is organized , by far outweigh other considerations ( perusal of duplicated or variotyped documents being an occupational penance of the research worker ) . |
| 17 | It would save her waiting for the rain to stop , and the way the rain was pelting down it looked as if it never would stop . |
| 18 | This provides the College budget , which , based on the local detailed plan for course provision , is converted into resources , constrained not only by finance , but also by central directives about staffing levels and grades , the use of support services etc , and the way the support services are organised and controlled . |
| 19 | Latest tests seem to indicate a 100 per cent correlation between certain modes of abduction imagery and the way the subject was born . |
| 20 | ‘ He is still angry at the two-week delay which occurred between the day he was tested and the way the results were announced in such a public manner . ’ |
| 21 | It has problems with matters of principle and the way the visit is conducted . ’ |
| 22 | At the evening service on 29 December 1991 David Meikle shared with us his calling and the way the Lord had led him into missionary endeavour . |
| 23 | Make sure your plan includes windows and doors ( and the way the doors open ) , as well as radiators and fixed towel rails , bearing in mind that , if space is really short , a door can be moved , rehung to open the other way , or replaced with one that slides . |
| 24 | ‘ He asked about Bull and he wanted to know what figure we wanted and the way the money would be paid . |
| 25 | Happy when they were together , when she was left alone she fretted , missing his presence and the way the light moved round his body as he enthusiastically used every inch of it to express the slightest emotion . |
| 26 | The social worker should proceed to explore the organisation and structure of the family system , the roles people play within it , and the way the changes in the old person have affected that . |
| 27 | Such sentences as ‘ Climatic conditions deteriorate rapidly with increasing elevation ’ are not difficult because of the concepts embodied but because of the vocabulary used and the way the sentence is structured . |
| 28 | One reason may be they way the information is presented to them and the way the offer is made . |
| 29 | He discusses the need for improving education and training and the way the contexts for transition to adult life have changed in the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | Yeah , erm , right , yeah , that 's all the other items , erm what 's been er been going through my head recently is , is er the , looking at the pattern of the meetings and the way the meetings are arranged and , and how , erm , at the last meeting we had a speaker er and that I think , we all found that quite interesting and the one , one from Central America that things and I feel we ought to have that much more frequently than we do have er , a , either a speaker or a focus of some sort of meetings erm , so I think that 's something I 'd like to raise and get the A G M at the next meeting I think similar thing we ought to consider there . |