Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The shoals of fish became scarce and unreliable from one year to another , probably because of overfishing when the power of modern engines made it possible for foreign boats to fish in the same waters .
2 When David Kay , Roy Goddard and Fred Rogers established their business in 1970 , they were one of the first British firms to operate in the same way as Spencer Stuart , Heidrick and Struggles and Egon Zehnder .
3 ‘ Well fashion is still faring better than advertising in the current page squeeze , but there are now less editorial pages to correspond with the fewer advertising pages being sold in magazines ’ .
4 But as mystics these medieval women , though " taking the route [ they ] would be likely to take " , join with their male counterparts to point to the same inner journey into the truth of the Incarnation — a wisdom which transcends human distinctions and where " there is neither male nor female .
5 One standard way of establishing the degree of discrimination in employment is to arrange for equally qualified black and white workers to apply for the same job .
6 It arranged for groups of identically qualified white and black applicants to apply for the same jobs in Chicago .
7 Microsoft divides these template packages into three : those just described fall into the category of ‘ collaboration templates ’ which enable multiple users to contribute to the same document , however others fall into ‘ tracking templates ’ such as project schedulers , which help to co-ordinate particular activities .
8 He was an inventor , and designed quick-selling gadgets which he used his showman-like qualities to retail at the many regional and metropolitan exhibitions being organized in the last quarter of the nineteenth century .
9 Yet these are small gains to set against the many reverses the right has suffered since Mr de Klerk started to undo apartheid .
10 The pressure of population caused much less concern in the Welsh Border counties where there was still sufficient land available to allow poor immigrants to erect cottages on the wastes and to claim common rights to go with the few acres that they had cleared from the woods or the moors .
11 Yet the Government expected unionists to sit in the same council chamber with them .
12 ‘ The state computer does not allow related officers to serve in the same force .
13 They have allowed their care in the community policy for ex-mental patients to amount to no more than people drifting within a community of hostels , in which one finds people who have fallen through the safety net and ended up homeless on the streets .
14 Nelson argues that the failure of other reviewers to come to the same conclusion was because they used vague definitions of depression and failed to take into account the severity of the disorder .
15 The series and parallel arms of the ladder are dual , resonant , reactive networks , their impedances being ; To make the product independent of frequency requires under which condition Satisfaction of condition ( 9.47 ) causes the series and parallel arms to resonate at the same frequency and there is 100% transmission at that frequency .
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