Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " 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 | It arranged for groups of identically qualified white and black applicants to apply for the same jobs in Chicago . |
| 3 | As Tudge ( 1988 ) discusses , the facility of plants to regenerate from a few cells is related to the characteristic known as totipotency . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was left to Unix System Labs to step in a few weeks later and take the reins of ANDF by licensing the Ten15 technology from DRA , saying it would productise ANDF in a future release of its Unix SVR4.2 operating system ( UX No 390 ) , see front page . |
| 6 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 7 | Yet these are small gains to set against the many reverses the right has suffered since Mr de Klerk started to undo apartheid . |