Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 A British voter aggrieved by being denied choice among candidates on party lists should ask himself just how much choice among candidates of the same party he is allowed under our present system and how much he would be allowed under the STV .
2 The sequence of eighth-century Northumbrian annals is lost after 801 but the sparse fragments of a former continuation which are preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle terminate in 806 with a note of the expulsion of King Eardwulf ( ASC D , s.a. 806 ) .
3 No policy orthodoxy had to be imposed and no places had to be found for clients of the former leader who wished to be junior ministers .
4 For , having barely embarked on their first Industrial Revolution , many Third World nations tend to regard their tribal peoples with the same antagonism which caused the " maturer " nations to extinguish theirs just a century earlier .
5 Correspondingly , between two candidates in the same batch there exists ( at most ) a weak preference ; the reasoner can choose either , and focusing criteria will only determine the choice , if at all , when the reasoner expresses no preference .
6 We are so accustomed to focussing on language , that there is a strong tendency in teaching with video to focus on the words in the same way we do with audio .
7 I stride over and take her by the shoulders in the same way I held Darius .
8 I know it sounds stupid , but I was trying to do all my sessions at the same speed I was used to at home .
9 Do not allow yourself to have several separate accounts of the same topic which duplicate one another .
10 So as a small token of appreciation , I just have two books or two copies of the same book which I would like to hand to your president and to your general secretary as a token of appreciation and it 's the authorized biography of Nelson Mandela of whom we are all very proud , considering what he has suffered through and what he has done and we hope that this little token will be a kind of memento for all your support but by doing this I 'm not saying that your support is over because the struggle continues .
11 Avoid monoculture : growing large areas of the same crop which then becomes an easy target .
12 So when your neighbour can only manage to bake 32 fairy cakes at the same time you can serve up 50 , and it will gobble up a 31lb turkey with ease .
13 Further consideration led to the conclusion that it would be appropriate to certificate all unit-based provision , and to record all group awards on the same document which will be known as the RECORD OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING ( RET ) .
14 The root structure has more than 200 packages at the same level which exceeds an internal limit .
15 They started off as bynames — nicknames , sobriquets and such — to distinguish two persons in the same locality who might be called Alfred , Edgar , Edith or Ethelhild , or to mark some outstanding characteristic .
16 Bella married a butcher who displayed her photographs in his shop while she charmed the customers in the same way she had charmed the stars .
17 The tsar turned down Miliutin 's general principles on the same day he instructed Nazimov to continue canvassing opinion in the north-western provinces .
18 Nodes at the same level which are mutually exclusive have inhibitory connections between them .
19 However , it 's the notes in the former chord which by intervallic interchange become chromatic notes in the latter chord , and it 's this approach which produces the most effective results .
20 You need to avoid the use of low status female gender role terms with the same care you take to avoid male gender titles .
21 And any relation between members of the same sex which allowed their difference , did not assimilate both to one fantasy , would be heterosexual . ’
22 Indeed , it would seem that members of the same family who quarrel in the garden may be guilty of the offence .
23 In order to have stocks of the remaining 4 leaflets in the same ratio we need to order :
24 When I visited the area in 1981 I was regaled with fishermen 's stories of discoloured fish with scabs and other unusual deformities , of boxes of fish removed from the quayside for testing by the authorities , of radiation in seagulls ' eggs , of friends from the same school who had later died unexpectedly of cancer .
25 These were the two sides of the same coin which I referred to at the beginning of this essay , the nature — culture opposition and the particular characterizations and choice of emphases here explored being one explanation for the apparent gender differentials in blood within Jewish ritual practice , and one link at least between the rite of circumcision and menstrual taboo .
26 Norman Broadbent and Saxton Bampfylde may be regarded as 1980s examples of the same trend which influenced Dr Egon Zehnder to leave Spencer Stuart in 1964 : a desire both for autonomy and for profit .
27 Maxwell concluded that ‘ we can scarcely ; avoid the inference that light consists of the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena . ’
28 She was turned fifteen now , and had a wise old head on her shoulders ; in many ways , the girl reminded Beth of Maisie ; like two peas from the same pod they were .
29 When he passed through an ivy-clad trellis arch and saw the man he sought , however , raking dead leaves and twigs into an incinerator , he realized how absurd the idea was that they could somehow be twin actors of the same part who had never met on stage till this unscripted moment .
30 Certainly the young middle-class , or rising middle-class person can be guaranteed to meet others of the same age who are respectable but not too serious .
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