Example sentences of "and [conj] the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He remembered where the saints had lain , and where the altars had stood ; he remembered the old confusion of secular and ecclesiastical affairs , and the use of the south porch as the place where pleas were settled which could get no solution in hundred or shire or royal court .
2 On to Wing On Street , better known as Cloth Alley , where you can find silks , linens and wools at incredibly low prices , and where the salesmen know exactly how much you need for a shirt or a suit .
3 In sum , their duties probably varied from place to place and from time to time , although there was always likely to be a strong police element , especially in those areas on or near the frontiers where military government was paramount and where the natives enjoyed only limited autonomy .
4 My house and hedge and where the batsmen strode .
5 And from the fields and villages of England , where work has slowed to a trickle and where the landlords have enclosed the common lands ( after 1802 ) SO that even subsistence living is difficult , from these fields comes a mighty army of labour .
6 Although it would have been interesting to have known which were Dr. Blair 's books and where the others came from , the important point is to realise what a very wide range of reading was available to the small number of people in this village .
7 The radical attack on señorios came from Aragon and Valencia where the confusion between rent payment and feudal dues was most marked and where the lords had transferred to their Christian subjects the obligations that had once rested on the moriscos .
8 Pupils with little or no sight need the opportunity to explore the classroom , not only for reasons of access and safety but also to find out where the key activities take place and where the objects needed for their work and play are kept .
9 Once you are confident of the position and curvature of the spine , and how and where the limbs go , you will know that your work is structurally sound .
10 Once you are confident of the position and curvature of the spine , and how and where the limbs go , you will know that your work is structurally sound .
11 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 .
12 She stood , slowly turned , and where the spines had penetrated her she oozed bright sap .
13 Cut away a neat edged circle around the base of trees and where the shrubs overhang the lawn .
14 Where there is nothing to show that the parties have used language in any other than its strict and ordinary sense , and where the words interpreted in that sense are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances , it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words shall be interpreted in that strict and primary sense even though they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation and even though the most conclusive evidence of the intention to use them in such popular sense is tendered ( Enlayde Ltd v Roberts [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 109 : obligation to reinstate property destroyed by fire included an obligation to reinstate where the destruction was caused by incendiary bombs ) .
15 And where the flags ended there rose three large stone arches , forming a sort of veranda to the front of a house , a real house with six windows visible , three above the flat roof of the stone veranda and three above that again .
16 The cheesemaker has the best control over his cheese if he is able to use the milk from his own flock or herd — he then knows exactly what he is getting and where the animals have been grazed as the type of grass and subsoil contributes much to the flavour of the milk and then the cheese .
17 It is also a pleasure for a nation of country lovers to escape from what is in danger of becoming a land of theme parks and golf courses , to a place in which the earth is actually used for growing things and where the workers have n't been reduced to the statutory rustic who sits in the corner of the saloon bar entertaining the merchant bankers .
18 Check that the whole of the property to be sold is included in the plan , no more , no less , and that the boundaries shown leave no room for doubt .
19 What was crucial here as far as Chicago was concerned was that it could now boast a movie theatre as good as anything in New York and that the movies had been decisively disassociated from ‘ immoral ’ ragtime music by now being coupled with the Symphony .
20 They found that no dye was formed from pure aniline ; that magenta was usually a mixture of two dyestuffs ( 1 and 2 ) ; and that the products formed could be controlled by the proportions of the component amines .
21 Please could you ensure that this is made clear on any notices that are put up and that the contractors doing the work are also aware that pedestrians , cyclists and people requiring access to property are to be allowed through .
22 The company in question would be the first to admit that the analysis was a pioneering effort and that the estimates obtained were , in some cases , quite crude , as the accounting system could not readily provide all the relevant data .
23 It is not surprising that the work is therefore based on a critique of idealism and that the concepts used are rather more ‘ idealist ’ than those Marx uses in his later work .
24 Associated Press of Pakistan claimed on Aug. 26 that Pakistani troops had repulsed an Indian attack on a post in Mirzapur , and that the Indians had " lost 20 lives including their two officers " while the Pakistanis " suffered two casualties " .
25 The wills and inventories of the inhabitants of Pennine villages , hamlets and farmsteads show that those described as clothiers had livestock amongst their possessions and that the farmers had stores of wool , spinning wheels and looms .
26 But it does not take long to decide that the experiment is being conducted with skill , and that the pursuits have at least a little in common .
27 They also believe that they have the right to snoop and that the shootings violate the German-Soviet treaty signed last year .
28 The social reality is that the uses of ‘ history ’ , if not always as crude and blatant as this , always involve selection , speculation and hypothesised connections , and that the scholars operating this process are products of a specific society , speak its language and are imbued with its ideology , so their work must always bear a complex if not tangential relationship to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ objectivity ’ .
29 I am glad that those arrested have been released and that the charges have been dropped .
30 Nobody will deny that these are complex issues , and that the difficulties surrounding some of them have caused earlier efforts to bring about reform to founder .
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