Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had suggested all cars would inevitably look the same , as rival designers struggled to meet the same constraints dictated by safety requirements and ever-better fuel economy . |
| 2 | There is some repetition as the authors backtrack to report the same developments from different points of view and new characters are introduced ; the detailed mathematical discussions do become daunting for the non-specialist reader . |
| 3 | Despite the over-arching presence of a sizeable clutch of masterstrokes , the Inspirals manage to deliver a few turkeys — ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ , for all its anthemic pretensions , still sounds like cloying Radio 2 fodder , and arty pieces like ‘ Flood ’ are prone to descend into unseemly pomposity . |
| 4 | Iran 's relations with other West European countries began to improve a few months after the initial call by Ayatollah Khomeini for Rushdie 's death , although Rafsanjani 's statement in May 1989 advocating the killing of five Westerners for every Palestinian killed in the occupied territories [ see pp. 36669-70 ] drew a strong rebuke from the Council of Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 5 | But both firms happen to have the same dividends and the same share price , so that the net and gross dividend yields are the same at 5.31 and 7.08 per cent respectively . |
| 6 | In itself this was not so radical a departure from polling methods , and soon Gallup and other agencies began to adopt the same methods . |
| 7 | However , the classical writers tended to transfer the same principles of adjustment from the microeconomic to the macroeconomic plane , though their applicability at this level of aggregation is altogether more problematical , as Keynes was to point out . |
| 8 | Crews and sponsors tend to frequent the same restaurants , pubs and hotels . |
| 9 | In its turn , the government rejected FMLN accusations that it was misleading national and international opinion into believing that the Treasury Police and National Guard had been disbanded when , according to the guerrillas , these forces continued to occupy the same installations , with the same structures and weapons but wearing a different uniform . |
| 10 | The combatants try to score the most points possible , using techniques which involve actual body contact . |
| 11 | Licensed deposit-takers had to meet the same requirements , but did not need to offer as wide a range of services . |
| 12 | They then went and beat Sheff U ( big deal ) , on a night when no-one else played so they temporarily extended the lead to 15 points , and the bookies decided to take no more bets on them . |
| 13 | Some of you will pick it up very simp , easily , others need to have a few tries at it . |
| 14 | Disk compressors tend to tell a few fibs when assessing how much hard disk space you 've got , hence the spurious figures |
| 15 | Some of the tense/aspect distinctions of American Black English which have attracted the attention of sociolinguists seem to introduce the same problems of underlying structural non-identity as the Irish English perfect — an example is perfective done , illustrated by 19–21 . |
| 16 | In the informal interview it is apparent that a great deal depends on the skill of the interviewer , and perhaps two interviewers might get different responses from the same person in interviews purporting to cover the same topics . |
| 17 | ‘ Some poor devils trying to earn a few coppers , by the sound of it . ’ |