Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [n mass] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 When the assistant is serving you , he may also be serving two or three other people at the same time and holding a conversation with yet another .
2 ‘ It has been a long wait in a queue behind many other people with the same idea who wanted new homes in their neighbourhoods , but it has definitely been worth it .
3 Police believe his attackers may have robbed at least nine old people in the same area .
4 This is not , however , intended as a guide for the connoisseur , but rather as a plain man 's helpmate to getting the best possible fish for the least outlay .
5 Small but measurable differences in isotope composition of any two chemical species of the same element .
6 The movement was given a further lift by the publication of Peter Singer 's Animal Liberation ( 1975 ) — the first major philosophical discourse on the subject of animal rights — and this was soon followed by a number of other excellent works on the same theme .
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