Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 Anne Marriner , 23 , admitted attempting to obtain property by deception and two counts of criminal damage all committed on the same day during January .
2 's sister is an electrician at the factory and they have three brothers all qualified in the same job .
3 The Guardian and Daily Mail alone stayed in the same ownership throughout the period .
4 At the beginning of the line , the aircraft all start from the same common stock , but as they progress the goodies are added or not added according to the order .
5 One view put forward by A. G. Dickens in the mid-1960s held that because Protestantism greatly appealed to the many lay people who had been alienated by the formalistic , clerically dominated Catholicism of the later middle ages , the Protestantization of the country was achieved very quickly .
6 All atoms with a particular speed thus deposit in the same place .
7 It consists in ‘ nothing but a participation of the same continued life , by constantly fleeting particles of matter , in succession vitally united to the same organized body ’ .
8 You can place a marker at the edge of the swim which , at forty yards or more range , is a tremendous aid to accurate casting and ensures that groundbait always goes in the same spot .
9 But for larger numbers of mutational steps , even in the case of the biomorphs with their nine little genes , the mathematical space of all possible trajectories is so vast that the chance of two trajectories ever arriving at the same point becomes vanishingly small .
10 Foreign Minister Francisco Ordóñez retained his post , and the Interior and Education ministries also remained under the same ministers who , like Ordóñez , were regarded as relatively independent of the PSOE .
11 He concluded that the methods probably cost about the same ; ‘ but that 's if they [ the headhunters ] are successful , but they are not always ’ .
12 Or at least they start , both books really start with the same issue , and the issue in question is in many ways , well , you could argue that it was in many ways fundamental to the social sciences .
13 The ‘ offset ’ policy extends the bubble concept so as to allow interfirm trading of emission permits among activities not located in the same plant or not owned by the same firm .
14 The Commission argued that , even if the requirements in question formally applied in the same way to nationals of the host state , in reality they were discriminatory in terms of both their purpose and their effects , since the overwhelming majority of British nationals involved in the fishing industry were likely to fulfil the residence requirement .
15 Once it has been shown that the matter in question always reacts in the same way under fixed conditions , a theory can be devised to explain its behaviour .
16 Because the horizontal and vertical externalities here operate in the same direction , the clear prediction is that , in the absence of any agreements , too little promotional and demonstration activity will take place .
17 Yeremi almost clung to the former undercity dweller , whether out of strange fellow feeling or only for support he could not have said .
18 The second half unfortunately continued in the same fashion .
19 The US co-chair of the Russian-American Bilateral Commission on prisoners-of-war ( POWs ) , Malcolm Toon , said in Moscow on Sept. 21 that the US public was " getting awfully impatient " with the lack of progress in the search for US POWs allegedly missing in the former Soviet Union .
20 The talks , aimed at tackling practical regional matters such as water-sharing , economic development and the environment , brought together the broadest gathering of Arab states ever to sit at the same table with Israel .
21 It is almost impossible to get brilliant and dark grains properly exposed on the same frame .
22 Graham Greene sarcastically remarked of the latter that ‘ Both the director and the star seem to labour under the impression that they are producing something important ’ , and the film 's success was enough to assure Wilcox that Hungarian naughtiness should give way to solemn patriotism .
23 It 's rare to find the BBC TV Gardeners ' World team all gathered in the same garden , but our Chelsea garden 's Gold Medal deserved a special television get-together to celebrate with designers Faith and Geoffrey Whiten , who share their winning ideas with us on page 18 .
24 The 231 staff were re-employed indefinitely — at cost of £50,000 each — some doing less work for the same money .
25 Why were its contents not scattered by the same hand that turned the records of the Strategy Unit out of their covers ?
26 consolidated Bank Annuities , with the dividends thereon accruing and to accrue , due at and from that time only , at and after my decease , for the purposes hereafter declared concerning the same ’ .
27 Malcolm Toon , a special US envoy inquiring into US prisoners of war still held in the former Soviet Union , was quoted on July 1 as saying that he had found no evidence to substantiate the claims made by Russian President Boris Yeltsin in June [ see p. 38986 ] .
28 A test performed at a reputable clinic — and found to be positive — is checked by doing further test on the same sample using different methods to detect HIV antibodies .
29 Sunday was the first and chief day of the week , and saints ' days always fell on the same date , as did some of the major festivals such as Christmas , which was celebrated on VIII Kal Jan ( 25 December ) .
30 And I myself , as er your course leader has indicated , I was on a course here myself some four weeks ago listening to the same subject , doing the physical exercises etcetera etcetera and listening and trying to take in , I wo n't say I did , trying to take in all the different aspects that will affect us in our er retirement years .
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