Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Silent serial recall of similar-sounding words ( homophones ) or signs sharing the same handshape ( non-homophones in English ) was used as a base for considering the effect of overt rehearsal either in sign ( into sign ) , or in words ( into words ) . |
| 2 | Legal & General reported a half year profit before tax of £74m ( v £56m ) . |
| 3 | If you would prefer to renew your licence starting a new period , rather than have a duplicate or replacement showing the same period as the original licence , you may do so on payment of the full licence fee . |
| 4 | But even where children attend the same type of school , the available evidence shows that school attainments vary by socio-economic group from a very early age . |
| 5 | If you watch an effective policeman or nurse giving the same information to a row of people from different backgrounds , you will be surprised at the range and flexibility of the instinctive code switching . |
| 6 | Obviously , not all wines or beers have the same alcohol content , and a half pint of an extra strength lager , of 6% alcohol , for example , will equal 2 units of alcohol rather than 1 unit . |
| 7 | Proof of Theorem 1.2.9 unc [ Here we wish to show that every non-empty set of positive integers has a least member so … ] assume [ to the contrary ] that there is a non-empty set T , say , of positive integers such that T has no least member . |
| 8 | It must have seemed utterly reasonable to extend the golden rule of the Sermon on the Mount to animals so that animals deserved the same treatment which the human expected from other humans . |
| 9 | And a contemporary of theirs , Columella , describes and recommends distinct kinds like the Armerian , the Cestine and the Syrian , showing that apple-growers used the same system of naming as today — after the finder , some benefactor or notable person , or the place where the apple came from . |
| 10 | Just as Henry Moore 's career reached its apotheosis with his huge outdoor retrospective in the hills above Florence , so Caro gets the same treatment from the curator of the Moore extravaganza , Giovanni Carandente . |
| 11 | It did not follow that Coopers reached the same conclusion as Peats by following the same reasoning . |
| 12 | A common response to the claim that I am making about observation , supported by the kinds of examples I have utilized , is that observers viewing the same scene from the same place see the same thing but interpret what they see differently . |
| 13 | Men with £3 — £4 were probably smallholders , but , although £2 attracted the same rate of tax , men at this level tended to overlap with those beneath , their assessments being reduced to £1 on some occasions . |
| 14 | Admittedly , we do sometimes talk as if a person could have a pain in his foot and be unaware of it , perhaps while his attention is on something else , but this is explained by there being different levels of consciousness , or self-consciousness , in the mind ; it does not require our saying that pains have the same sort of mind-independent existence as tables . |
| 15 | Haavio-Mannila set out to test the assumption that wives share the same status ranking as their husbands . |
| 16 | In the sense that apple has the same relationship to fruit as dog has to animal ( i.e.' — is an immediate taxonym of — ' — see chapter 6 for the meaning of taxonym ) , that relation is of the sort known as ‘ many-to-one ’ . |
| 17 | Carol McMillan , in Women , Reason and Nature ( 1982 ) , argues that feminism makes the same mistake as anti-feminism in its excessive belief in rationality and empiricism , and consequently undervalues emotion , intuition and the private sphere . |
| 18 | When the state looks upon such people as second-class , it is no wonder that racists take the same view . |
| 19 | Since counterfeiters were justly killed by Princes as enemies of the common good , so heretics deserve the same punishment . ’ |
| 20 | It seems likely that Oswald achieved the same accord as Eadwine with Eadbald , king of Kent . |
| 21 | Thus " an experienced woman worker " told her that men do the same work as women in many cases and at different rates , but there are certain parts of the work that women never do , such for instance as the lifting of the " formes " and " chases " . |
| 22 | Although pupils met the same topic over and over again , they still did not understand . |
| 23 | Ca n't we at least suppose that others have the same experience ? ’ |
| 24 | Let us make the conservative assumption that CD-X follows the same trend but that by mid-decade it achieves a penetration of about 25 per cent of CD-A , rising to 60 per cent of CD-A by the year 2000 ( obviously much depends on when CD-X appears ! ) . |
| 25 | I had a theory that Hawaiians had the same kind of relationship with the sea as the Australian aborigines had with the land . |
| 26 | Although Meciar pledged the same day to respect the rights of all in Slovakia , including " Hungarians , Poles , Ukrainians … not only as cohabitants but as brothers " , leaders of the 600,000-strong Hungarian minority in Slovakia expressed concern at recent attempts by Slovak leaders to enact restrictive language laws , and said that they would seek regional autonomy within independent Slovakia . |
| 27 | Although Meciar pledged the same day to respect the rights of all in Slovakia , including " Hungarians , Poles , Ukrainians … not only as cohabitants but as brothers " , leaders of the 600,000-strong Hungarian minority in Slovakia expressed concern at recent attempts by Slovak leaders to enact restrictive language laws , and said that they would seek regional autonomy within independent Slovakia . |
| 28 | While the use of the term is admittedly unusual , its meaning seems clear enough ; and the statement that Molla Yegan succeeded Molla Fenari in this function would seem to indicate that Taskopruzade intends the same function by the terms and . |
| 29 | Thorneycroft insisted , like Sandys before him over the TSR 2 , that economies should be made by the Navy and RAF using the same airframe for their future supersonic fighter , but he was equally unsuccessful : the requirements for the two environments were far too far apart . |
| 30 | There are so many other causes and sponsorships chasing the same money . |