Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was forced to withdraw his dissolution , though only after more than two years of controversy , during which time the Council had gone about its business and drafted a number of decrees that restrained the power of the papacy , and laid down reforms throughout the Church . |
| 2 | We used to build Lego together and make up stores about the fellows who lived in the Lego houses , and if Mike talked about me , people just thought he was making me up . |
| 3 | By the middle 1950 's most of my generation were settling down to carving out their careers and bringing up families after the unsettling effects of the war years during which they had experienced all they wanted of adventure and excitement . |
| 4 | They began to look for more drink and the Junior showed his initiative by going up to the off-licence with the Porter and bringing back armfuls of the stuff . |
| 5 | Once received the data will be converted from radio to microwave signals and passed along cables to the control centre nearby . |
| 6 | Fourthly , ideology legitimizes social relations and covers over contradictions in the material relations of social being . |
| 7 | For around £20 each we enjoyed the simple pleasures of being able to dance the Gay Gordons round a bonfire at midnight , vomit into a loch instead of on to a pavement , and stumble up hills for the remainder of the week walking off hangovers . |
| 8 | Example 2:16 Exceptions and reservations Excepting and reserving to the landlord : ( 1 ) Easement rights and privileges over the demised property corresponding to those expressly granted to the tenant over the other parts of the building ( 2 ) The right to build on develop deal with use any adjoining or neighbouring property retained by the landlord in such manner as he thinks fit even though the amenity of the demised property or the access of light or air thereto may be lessened thereby and without making any compensation to the tenant ( 3 ) The right at reasonable times and on reasonable notice ( except in emergency ) to enter the demised property for the purposes of ( i ) inspecting the condition and state of repair thereof ; ( ii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) for which the landlord or the tenant is liable under this lease ( iii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) to any property adjoining the demised property or to any party structure sewer drain or other thing used by the tenant in common with others ( iv ) measuring testing or valuing the demised property ( including the right to take samples of materials and to open up parts of the demised property which would otherwise be inaccessible ) but making good any damage caused by such an entry ( 4 ) The right for the landlord and the other tenants of the building to pass through the demised property in case of fire or other emergency Example 2:17 Definition of service pipes ' " service pipe " means any pipe , drain , sewer , flue , duct , gutter , wire , cable , optic fibre , conduit , channel or other means of passage or transmission of water , soil , gas , air , smoke , electricity , light , information or other matter and all ancillary equipment or structures |
| 9 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 10 | As you build up and level out areas of the garden , keep the soil in place using retaining walls . |
| 11 | They crossed a bridge and came down steps to the water 's edge . |
| 12 | following a review by the county surveyor we suggest further things which are automatic consultation with local members and indeed this process of public consultation be brought forward to the beginning of the whole procedure of traffic managing reviews , now that , that sort of consultation will be more in the nature of a public meeting than a semi-formal enquiry , but we recommend to you that we use the same sort of terminology so that the public appreciates that they are genuinely being consulted by the County Council , now if we find that there are very contentious proposals after an order has been published , er a C C H , a County Consultant of Hearing may still be held if as members you feel that 's something you want to do , because the objective of , of this whole concept of County Consultant of Hearings is to have er flexible arrangements so that the County Council can demonstrate its commitment with consultations at a local level to demonstrate that , that members in particular are hearing what local people er say and to set up procedures within the organization to give members , particularly local members more involvement in the traffic management review process , those are the recommendations Chairman which involve in the paper . |
| 13 | Cromwell obviously planned to bring the northern forests more closely under his control , and to ferret out encroachments upon the Forest rights of the Crown . |
| 14 | The Lower Exchequer , also called the Exchequer of Receipt — misleadingly so , since it paid money out as well — took in revenue from royal collectors and handed over receipts in the form of tallies , which could then be presented in the Upper Exchequer at the audit . |
| 15 | The end-of-term atmosphere was maintained when Mrs Kinnock dressed up as an air hostess and handed out sweets to the accompanying press corps . |
| 16 | If you are going to the school yourself , you can probably collect quite a lot of this general information by chatting with the teacher and pupils and noting down details of the surroundings . |
| 17 | Thomas of Marlborough took about forty days to get himself to Rome , riding fast and wearing out horses on the way . |
| 18 | Down she goes , arms folded across her chest , crouching low and punching out kicks from the knee . |
| 19 | These scratching actions are a crucial part of the cleaning routine , getting rid of skin irritations , dislodging dead hairs and combing out tangles in the fur . |
| 20 | A group of staff officers were clustered around one of the last of the fires , stamping their feet and holding out hands to the blaze . |
| 21 | Benjamin looked round the busy yard where servants were pulling out carts and hitching up horses under the watchful eye of Bowyer 's soldiers . |
| 22 | Copy the cashing-up slip on page 76 , and fill in details for the following . |
| 23 | The worker then reduces it to its proper thinness by putting its head in the cells on either side of the wall and shaving off layers from the face of it . |
| 24 | ‘ But it 'll take you the best part of two days to provide the concealment , ’ said Dorrainge , surveying Lugh 's neatly drawn plans and watching the men sawing off branches and raking up leaves from the forest floor . |
| 25 | he stood over the stumps to the quick bowlers and brought off stumpings down the leg side , the hallmark of a great keeper . |
| 26 | Mrs Bennet had been into town and brought back details of the damage . |
| 27 | The Bus company delivers and picks up children at the School every day . |
| 28 | It was the latest in a spate of attacks by Muslim extremists and blew out windows on the bus , packed with 49 British holidaymakers , and gutted a Mercedes . |
| 29 | It was the latest in a spate of attacks by Muslim extremists and blew out windows on the bus , packed with 49 British holidaymakers , and gutted a Mercedes . |
| 30 | At dawn on July 1 Lebanese army units crossed the Awali River and took up positions around the port of Sidon . |