Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morgan have AAA debt ratings from both Standard $ Poor 's and Moody 's , two big American rating agencies , Barclays Bank , Deutsche Bank and Union Bank of Switzerland are among the eight European banks in the same category ( see table on next page ) . |
| 2 | The stone chair in the Throne Sanctuary at Knossos seems to imitate a wooden precursor ; the frescoes show folding wooden stools with cushions , such as were used in ancient Egypt ; there is indirect evidence , in inlay work and bronze hinges , of storage chests , cabinets and chairs ; presumably there were also low wooden beds of the same type inferred from a cast discovered at Akrotiri on Thera . |
| 3 | This difference is all the more complete in that different rights in the same thing or place may be and usually are held by different people or different groups of people in those societies . |
| 4 | Samples were taken from three different normal subjects in the same physiological conditions . |
| 5 | Two different valuers may well come up with two different detailed valuations of the same property — providing fertile ground for appeals and disputes . ’ |
| 6 | He most certainly had few fond memories of the latter employment , but it was the former which caused him to curse his luck at having been born in Derby . |
| 7 | And a health board inquiry centring on several allegations of abuse against teenage male students by the same Catholic priest is also being carried out . |
| 8 | Alternatively , you could press some similar flowers in the same colourings and use those to decorate the picture . |
| 9 | They are surprisingly varied miniatures , demonstrating Reger 's ability to avoid the predictable , and indulge in some daring modulations at the same time . |
| 10 | Which is why I have a Tench , a Bitterling , and some White Clouds in the same tank . |
| 11 | Beyond it lay the Victorian Gothic church and some large houses of the same period , now mostly turned into flats . |
| 12 | The pupil understands that different units of length will produce different numerical answers for the same length . |
| 13 | Genoves ( 1959 ) , for example , found that its general shape in Anglo-Saxons was quite different from that in British mediaeval individuals of the same sex . |
| 14 | Although in word-processing this key acts in the same way as the typewriter lever that moves the paper up one line , on a computer it is only used to force the word-processor to move one line — usually at the end of a paragraph . |
| 15 | Volk & Welt , one of the few major publishers of the former East Germany still on the books of the Treuhand , has finally been privatised in a token DM1 buyout led by its managing director Dietrich Simon . |
| 16 | Another central element in Braverman 's thesis is that management , in order to achieve their objective of tight control over labour , not only fragment jobs horizontally — in the sense that different physical elements of the same task are split off from each other to be done by separate individuals — but fragment jobs vertically , as well . |
| 17 | The significant point , at least according to Huxley , is that the allometric variation that is so clearly observable between different sized individuals of the same species , can also be observed between animals of different size in different ( though related ) species . |
| 18 | During Brezhnev 's discussions with Indira Gandhi both leaders condemned the buildup of military activity in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf and spoke in favour of dismantling all foreign military bases in the former region . |
| 19 | In the 1960s , the Soviet Union rapidly discovered that its connection with Cuba led to the complication and distortion of its relations with other Latin American nations at the same time as it presented them with new opportunities in the region . |
| 20 | And yet these mosaics do show some notable similarities to the latter . |
| 21 | Here and there they pick up and make use of the old common balks in the former open fields , which must have been the usual way of proceeding from one village to another in open-field country , but for the most part they are drawn straight across the old furlongs and strips regardless of all considerations but that of directness . |
| 22 | At Roche he made some new compounds of the same class , but they were no more rewarding . |
| 23 | He may have been involved in some other misdemeanours at the same time , but he was also supporting the poll tax in the Cabinet . |
| 24 | As a result , No. 3440 will enter traffic on Saturday July 18 for a 10-day intensive period of running until Monday July 27 inclusive and the promise of some spectacular runs by the former GWR flier . |
| 25 | Some pavements in the former sequence also suggest a familiarity with the linear geometric principles of the latter . |
| 26 | The military section of the Supreme Court on May 10 sentenced 12 senior officers of the former Securitate secret police to prison terms of between 30 months and five years for " illegally detaining " and " abusively interrogating " protesters during the December 1989 revolution . |
| 27 | Pension contributions of employers and employees fell from around 42% to about 30% of total personal savings over the same period . |
| 28 | By late October 1990 200 of the 8,000 state-owned enterprises in the former GDR had been privatized by the Treuhandanstalt , to which the privatization process had been entrusted [ see pp. 37536 ; 37660 ] . |
| 29 | Creole words can thus follow either of two routes into LE : ( 1 ) with their Creole pronunciation intact , as a badge of their ethnic origin and distinctness from Standard English words of the same form , or ( 2 ) in " anglicised " form , conforming to the pronunciation rules of LE . |
| 30 | If he had had any doubts about paternity , they were dispelled ; for , even though he kept his distance , he did once get near enough to the pair to become acutely aware that the child bore a striking resemblance to him : dark hair , dark brown eyes beneath the same unusual winged eyebrows . |