Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not suggested that the money belongs to the former regime of Siad Barre , nor that it is the property of a government or governmental agency rather than state property belonging to the Republic . |
| 2 | This is achieved by adjusting the spacing between the words and characters as necessary so that each line of text finishes at the same point . |
| 3 | Perhaps the best hope for progress lies in the many examples of good practice that already exist and which the Act simply reflects and builds on . |
| 4 | The pattern of extended family living persists with the few Bangladeshis who have grown up in Cardiff or elsewhere in Britain . |
| 5 | A trade union to my mind stands in the same position . |
| 6 | Andrew Guest , of United , said the proposals for speed restrictions would mean buses travelling over 50 speed humps on a half hour round trip . |
| 7 | Being a costly enterprise and having many uses to the modern state , research has at the same time come under increased scrutiny from the paymaster . |
| 8 | The impact of the recession in Britain has compelled employers drastically to reduce labour costs at the same time as it has effectively shifted the balance of market strength in their favour . |
| 9 | If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally . |
| 10 | Any such conflicting treaty would be absolutely and automatically void , and the signatory States to the former treaty could invoke that invalidity at any time . |
| 11 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
| 12 | Even though the local advantages for power and raw materials have gone , the industry remains in the same place . |
| 13 | The programme continues at the same venue throughout the week with the curtain up each evening at 8pm and 7.30pm on Saturday . |
| 14 | Almost all studies show that acid secretion remains at the same rate . |
| 15 | Second , educational research operates under the same principles as the rest of the service : for example , codes of practice in relation to gender , race or social class must be strictly adhered to . |
| 16 | ( The word booze comes from the same source . ) |
| 17 | In other words , in an oligopolistic framework , the non-equivalence between an optimal tariff and a quota arises since the latter changes the behaviour of the competing firms . |
| 18 | If the defendant in a default action does submit a defence in the prescribed time , the district judge fixes a date for the preliminary hearing , and the action proceeds in the same way as a fixed date action . |
| 19 | varied situations in which that sort of lifestyle as possible , but the absolute opposite happens within the same city as well . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , in principle the distinction is clear : where a pronoun refers to a linguistic expression ( or chunk of discourse ) itself , it is discourse-deictic ; where a pronoun refers to the same entity as a prior linguistic expression refers to , it is anaphoric . |
| 21 | Rage Against The Machine belongs to the latter category . |
| 22 | and also state that their Fig. 1 b ( ref. 1 ) shows a ‘ coherent mixing trend ’ defined by slight variations in their reconstructed ground-mass compositions ( A , B , C and D ) , and suggest further that the Y6N17 groundmass lies along the same mixing trend as that previously noted for the Haiti glasses . |
| 23 | Tim Robbins plays Griffin Mill , a young , fast-track movie executive whose career comes under threat when another young Turk arrives at the same studio . |
| 24 | In part this reflects a reluctance to let outsiders interfere with the job of policing , as well as a suspicion about soci — ology , which for many policemen sounds too much like the word ‘ socialist ’ ; social work suffers from the same association . |
| 25 | Broadcasting falls into the latter category ; and there is an awareness that the BBC reform campaign must be conducted cautiously . |
| 26 | Accountability operates in the same domain as trust . |
| 27 | Whether divorce operates in the same way as widowhood in this regard is really a matter of speculation at the present time . |
| 28 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
| 29 | This is particularly relevant in the case of boys — somehow society seems to think it is appropriate for little girls to shed tears but is embarrassed when a young boy reacts in the same way . |
| 30 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |