Example sentences of "[art] [det] [subord] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , then , has the body plan remained the same when the way of life has changed ? |
| 2 | I decide , I I choose , I will come , I will receive it , but the actual giving of that life , t is the same as the giving of the life to that babe , it was no choice of it , it was no , did n't i , was n't determined by it 's own will . |
| 3 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that , under the current rules for SERPS , there is a cut-off in the amount which is the same as the cut-off for the earnings limit ? |
| 4 | It has been pointed out that the legal protection of children 's welfare is not the same as the conferment of rights on children , since it presupposes that welfare agencies , judges and even parents would have the right to take decisions on the child 's behalf . |
| 5 | It was the same as the monogram on the handkerchief . |
| 6 | It is no accident that the Greek word for ‘ person ’ is the same as the word for ‘ atom ’ . |
| 7 | It was on channel 20 , the same as the rig in our room , but there was no signal from Danny . |
| 8 | But an information gap is not necessarily the same as the operation of different schemata , which may be working at a deeper and less accessible level . |
| 9 | There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice . |
| 10 | So if the story is correct , the writer of the music for the National Anthem is the same as the composer of the music for Sally In Our Alley . |
| 11 | The cost at the time the system was developed was estimated at about the same as the salary of one personnel officer — for one year — without the costs of an office , car or secretary that the officer would need . |
| 12 | After making an allowance for what you 've used since the meter reader called , is it roughly the same as the reading on your bill ? |
| 13 | The spot yield for a particular term to maturity is the same as the yield on a zero-coupon bond of the same maturity ( hence the alternative name ) . |
| 14 | The plaintiffs contended that the commissioner was not a court of competent jurisdiction , and that the issue before him of whether the entries in the register were validly made was not the same as the issue in the action , which was whether the road verges formed part of the highway . |
| 15 | The Secretary of State was being totally disingenuous because , if the cancellation cost of the fourth boat is the same as the cost of cancelling the first boat would have been , it would be cheaper to build the thing — so saving on the unemployment benefit that would otherwise be payable to the constituents of the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) — and not deploy it . |
| 16 | The first point to note is that , whatever their growth rates , all firms generate the same total rate of return on assets of 15 per cent , and that this is the same as the cost of capital or discount rate . |
| 17 | The peace which is on the face of a sleeping child is not the same as the peace on a face whose eyes are closed in prayer . |
| 18 | 1 The 80/20 case When 20 per cent of the records generate 80 per cent of the accesses to a file , and the file is loaded in a random order , the percentage of accesses to synonyms will be the same as the percentage of synonyms ; if the file is 90 per cent packed and randomized to individual record storage positions , accesses to synonyms will be 34.063 per cent of all accesses . |
| 19 | This " instruction " for how to use a colon is the same as the instruction for how to use a semicolon . |
| 20 | Notice that the extraction set is almost never the same as the denotation of the noun qualified . |
| 21 | ‘ Not quite the same as the title of our video , but close enough , ’ said Ray . |
| 22 | If the sense in which all behaviour was non-autonomous turned out to be the same as the sense in which abnormal behaviour is now understood to be so , then the same attitude to it would be appropriate . |
| 23 | Since the average rate at which the foreign debt was raised was probably about 25 dinars , its dinar value in early 1988 was about 50 times as great , approximately the same as the change in the cost of living over the same period . |
| 24 | This will be important in the subsequent discussion , since when changes the change in the coefficient of variation will not be the same as the change in the variance . |
| 25 | This proportion was virtually the same as the proportion of patients coming to surgery in the entire ulcerative colitis series ( 669/1156=58% ) . |
| 26 | Proponents of this system and of STV argue that the effect would be a representative House of Commons , the proportion of seats going to parties being the same as the proportion of the votes won in the election . |
| 27 | The proportion of expenses allowed will be the same as the proportion of the trustees ' worldwide income which is liable to UK tax . |
| 28 | The Kuwaitis certainly did not share their thinking with Sir Peter , but the message from the Gulf seems to be the same as the message from the London market — Lloyds is out of the running . |
| 29 | The wording of s743(3) is in all material respects the same as the wording of s681(1) . |
| 30 | Additionally , for all random access media items , a directory must be created on the media item which is the same as the name of the LIFESPAN process directory . |