Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how does that compare with the same period last year ? ’ |
| 2 | If possible eat on the same day that you buy them . |
| 3 | An 18-year-old and a 16-year-old are due to appear in the same court to face a similar charge . |
| 4 | There are several styles and sizes of lodges to choose from , each designed with the same aim in mind … the ultimate in luxuriousness . |
| 5 | It carries more textual meaning than an adverbial occurring in the same position . |
| 6 | Would the Secretary of State have been prepared to sit at the same table — I repeat , would the Secretary of State and his colleagues have been prepared to sit at the same table with that man , within the confines of the Anglo-Irish Agreement ? |
| 7 | Would the Secretary of State have been prepared to sit at the same table — I repeat , would the Secretary of State and his colleagues have been prepared to sit at the same table with that man , within the confines of the Anglo-Irish Agreement ? |
| 8 | For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race . |
| 9 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 10 | This looks like the same tape as Uncle Pauls erm is it ? |
| 11 | This behaved in the same way as the first unit , so I took this one back and got a third … |
| 12 | If this happens at the same time as the inevitable swing into wind , it can result in a very rapid rolling over on to the into-wind wing-tip . |
| 13 | After four years at sea and now without compass and sextant , apparently the main attributes of its navigational aids , the old tub and crew are in need of a refit and the new establishment would be most foolish to embark upon the same kind of voyage.J I HOWARD , Glendale , Upper Street , Witnesham . |
| 14 | This happened at the same time as parishes were being formed , and it seems to have resulted in the extinction of many churches , not only as private property but also as working churches . |
| 15 | Show that this leads to the same behaviour in steady state as the extreme classical assumption . |
| 16 | November new car sales rose by 6.3% to 106,902 and new commercial vehicle sales rose by 15.3% to 15,920 compared with the same month in 1991 . |
| 17 | Manufacturing productivity rose nearly 8% in the first quarter of 1993 compared to the same period last year . |
| 18 | Thailand increased its rubber exports by 31 per cent in the first half of 1985 compared with the same period the year before — yet its rubber revenues fell by eight per cent1 . |
| 19 | MR DAVID Mellor , the Home Office Minister of State , said yesterday that he was ‘ almost ashamed and embarrassed to live in the same society ’ as journalists working for tabloid newspapers . |
| 20 | I open some of the popular newspapers covering some people 's private lives or great national tragedies and I feel almost ashamed and embarrassed to live in the same society as people who can produce that sort of stuff . ’ |
| 21 | In F9 EC cell extracts , an anti-p107 antibody disrupted DRTF1a ( Fig. 3 b ; compare tracks 2 and 3 ) , which , together with our result that the anti-DP-1 peptide antibodies interfered with DRTF1a ( Fig. 2 b ) , suggested that p107 and DP-1 exist in the same DRTF1/E2F complex . |
| 22 | Though his Bill failed , the government has found another means to the same end . |
| 23 | Gracey 's British Indian forces eventually totalled over twenty thousand men ; and by December 1945 the French had about the same number in Vietnam . |
| 24 | This operates on the same principle as a single-point instantaneous heater , but is more powerful and can be linked to several outlets . |
| 25 | This operates in the same way as the MIRAS scheme for mortgages , with relief given at the basic rate by deduction at source . |
| 26 | £1 this comes at the same time as having to make fundamental changes to central corporate systems to address the issues of , on the one hand , the Local Government Act 1988 ( which contains the requirements of competition legislation ) and , on the other hand , attempting to identify and apportion expenditure to individual schools and colleges to meet the requirements of the Education Act 1988 . |
| 27 | Added upset came in the same year from a speech by Dr W. Starkie , the commissioner of National Education in Ireland , who attacked school managers for not being up to their job . |
| 28 | A fortnight ago two men were killed and eight injured on the same stretch of road when a minibus and a car crashed . |
| 29 | Perhaps even more valuable are those servicemen and servicewomen who are sufficiently secure , motivated , well paid and content to remain in the same job for fifteen , twenty or thirty years , providing a continuity of local knowledge that is invaluable to those who come to rely upon them . |
| 30 | Tobacco released to the market was down 11.3 percent in the first half of 1991 compared with the same period of 1990 and 17.7 percent down compared with the second half of 1990 . |