Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] [noun sg] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lawyer 's work has the same value as that of a barber in that all men have the same right to cam a living from their labour . |
| 2 | Almost always considered secondary to his poetry , Masefield 's fiction has the same basic theme , man 's search for beauty — in nature , in ideas and , often , in the ideal of womanhood . |
| 3 | However the direct , positive pattern of England 's football remained the same . |
| 4 | Most probably the boy 's sister had the same biochemical defect . |
| 5 | I suppose it 's too much to expect a senior Queen 's Counsel to work the same hours as ordinary folk , ’ Bragg said grumpily . |
| 6 | THE Ffestiniog Railway Trust have issued the following statement regarding the FR 's bid to revive the former Welsh Highland Railway . |
| 7 | The girl 's bike has the same specification as the boy 's but comes with mudguards and a carrier at the back . |
| 8 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |
| 9 | By a very ingenious mechanism a wooden screen can separate the transport from the body of the church at a moment 's notice reducing the latter in size when necessary and converting the former into a commodious , well lighted lecture hall . |
| 10 | She was talking to Prue in the wardrobe — it was Geoffrey 's turn to call the half hour , when Bunny came running up the stairs . |
| 11 | ‘ It ought to be called ‘ The Barber of Fawlty Towers ’ since Peter Knapp 's hilarious version of Rossini 's classic deserves the same sort of popularity enjoyed by that series ’ The Guardian Sun in English by Travelling Opera Directed by Peter Knapp |
| 12 | Martha 's father has the same of those Micronesian tortoises , sort of run for ages and ages and in fact he says he 's over two hundred years old . |
| 13 | Sydney : Continuing negative fallout from News Corporation 's slide dragged the All Ordinaries index down 17 points to 1,730.4 . |
| 14 | ‘ He and Rose Lipman 's brother courted the same girl , only Mr Lipman won . |
| 15 | Genetically speaking , the reason for this is that all the cells except the sex cells in a wolf 's body have the same genes , while , as for the sex cells , all the genes have an equal chance of being in each one of them . |
| 16 | For teddy 's friend knit the same pattern in reverse leaving just one stitch between the noses ; position the mistletoe centrally above the bears . |
| 17 | A row of well-designed awnings can transform a building , especially if they incorporate the hotel 's or restaurant 's logo using the same colour schemes . |
| 18 | She smiled and waved , then took her grandfather 's arm to walk the few hundred yards to the church . |
| 19 | Carter 's entry suggests the latter , Cureton is more cautious . |
| 20 | During the two-week break before Billy opened in London , White revised the whole show 's choreography to make the most of designer Ralph Koltai 's massive sets , which included staircases appearing and disappearing , scenes sliding off and on , high overhead platforms sliding forward for dancers , a back projection screen being lowered , and streams of coloured lights . |
| 21 | Mr Clarke 's reaction reveals the same double standard as did his reaction to the doctors ' equally democratic verdict which he proceeded to dismiss . |
| 22 | This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men . |
| 23 | I can not pretend that Mr James 's book attains the same degree of enlightenment . |
| 24 | Five other victims of Alzheimer 's disease showed the same loss of Meynert cells . |
| 25 | It was mentioned in chapter one that the rocks making up the Earth 's mantle show the same kind of behaviour — on a short time-scale , they are rigid ( ’ solid ’ ) enough to transmit shock waves from earthquakes , but on a much longer time-scale , they can ‘ flow ’ , and accommodate the convection movements which are believed to provide the driving mechanisms behind Plate Tectonics . |
| 26 | For example , an electric toothbrush that I bought states categorically that it should be completely discharged at the end of each month and my portable 's manual gives the same advice . |
| 27 | Fergus Aherne of Ireland and the Welshman Gary Jones have been brought in as replacements for Gary Armstrong and John Jeffrey in the Barbarians ' team to play the All Blacks on Saturday . |