Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to government figures in the first nine months of 1991 the number of immigrants of German origin ( Aussiedler ) fell to 166,786 from 337,394 for the same period of 1990 , but the number of asylum-seekers rose from 143,826 to 169,785 . |
| 2 | This would require that for the same amount of light energy ( measured incident solar radiation has not varied by more than 0.5% since the beginning of the twentieth century ) more carbon is fixed per unit chlorophyll ( the quantum yield has changed ) . |
| 3 | Danish pig prices were stable during the latter half of June , at just under 102p/kg , but started dropping about 1p/kg a week from the beginning of July . |
| 4 | While there are also a number of texts that claim to be fabliaux but which are not now considered to belong to the genre , the common characteristics of the type ( described below ) are sufficiently clear for the same number of texts again to be identified with and added to the self-proclaimed fabliaux . |
| 5 | I do n't see any problem with this as a former chairman of planning , and I do n't think any other one would . |
| 6 | The 1920s in Europe , at least , had seen some of the same romanticism about leaving technically advanced civilization as occurred again in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 7 | So they have some of the same kind of problems that we have , but in a rather different form . |
| 8 | PAHs are some of the same group of cancer-causing substances that are found in cigarette smoke , oil and vehicle exhaust fumes . |
| 9 | There followed such extravagant follies as Bonnie Prince Charlie ( 1948 ) and an Anna Karenina ( 1947 ) in which Vivien Leigh vainly tried to bring some of the same magic to the role as Greta Garbo had 12 years earlier . |
| 10 | There has been some of the same controversy over the role of the mental handicap hospitals as over the psychiatric hospitals , but on the whole the issue is clearer : they ought to be replaced by smaller units , ranging from hostels and homes to specialist hospital units able to provide intensive nursing for the severely handicapped minority . |
| 11 | The speed reductions would be achieved , by applying at critical points in the network , some of the same sort of Verkehrsberuhigung measures as those which were at that time being installed in the new rest and play areas . |
| 12 | This was followed by another of the same type in 1885 and another in 1890 . |
| 13 | It was being driven by a very po-faced Englishman with another of the same ilk beside him and the car was spotlessly clean . |
| 14 | She was taking off her hat and coat as she spoke ; then going over to her aunt , she bent down and kissed her on the cheek , and followed this with the same salutation for her uncle ; and in response he patted her on the shoulder . |
| 15 | The tendency for horizontal influence to extend into regions that are quite unaffected in the absence of stratification is loosely analogous with the same tendency in other types of stratified flow as discussed in Section 15.1 . |
| 16 | It is also assumed that all complex carbohydrate malabsorbed are converted to H 2 with the same degree of rapidity as is the case with lactulose . |
| 17 | One Cawston man was credited with £1 per annum in respect of a mill , another with the same amount for ‘ a house and land ’ . |
| 18 | Before last Tuesday Darlington 1 were only five points clear on the same number of games and could not afford to lose a match . |
| 19 | Likewise the number of voters who think of themselves as being ‘ very strongly ’ committed to Labour has fallen by more than half over the same period to a mere 10 per cent of the electorate : of voters with of voters with Labour'very strong' Labour identificationidentification 19665024 19704721 19744516 19794211 19833711 19873613 19923711 |
| 20 | Yet , you may well be doing just that when you write one press release for the former magazine and another on the same subject for the latter because both publications are on your public relations media schedule as targets . |
| 21 | To cord the blind , cut one length of cord approximately twice the length of the blind , and another to the same length plus the blind width . |
| 22 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 23 | Motivated by an 1841 paper of Boole , Cayley , who was interested at the same time in algebraic aspects of projective geometry , began seeking invariants of homogeneous forms of degree n in two and more variables . |
| 24 | The May meeting will be on Wednesday 26 May 1993 at the same time in Glasgow Polytechnic . |
| 25 | You accuse these agencies of improper motives — such as using children as bait for donors — when you are guilty of the same shortcoming on your cover . |
| 26 | Thus , as far as the termination and re-grant of a franchise is concerned , Rask suggests that the decision of the EAT in LMCDrains Ltd v Waught ( EAT 182/90 ) , upholding an application of the Regulations , is to be preferred over that of the same court in Robert Seligman Corp v Baker [ 1983 ] ICR 770 , denying their applicability . |
| 27 | The capital value of a flat-rate pension for a woman , paid from the age of 60 , is about twice as much as that of the same pension for a man paid from age 65 . |
| 28 | So , since they claim to know the complete and final story about the nature of mental substance , it is incumbent on them to show that it is impossible for the same consciousness to be transferred from one substance to another . |
| 29 | Community regulations and certain provisions of the founding treaties ( such as Article 30 of the EEC Treaty on free movement of goods and Article 85 of the same treaty on competition ) have direct effect , which means that they may be relied on directly by any citizen without the need for any intervening national measures to ‘ receive ’ them and indeed without any possibility for national measures to exclude or modify them . |
| 30 | Gould 's accounts imply that he spent much of the latter part of his expedition , because of a shortage of water , doubling backwards and forwards from the Mount Lofty range to the Murray Scrubs ( later known as the Mallee ) , where most of the interesting birds were to be found : |