Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That could mean having children of vastly different ages in the same class , ’ he says . |
| 2 | The Star 's fuller reports gave a vivid illustration of two starkly contrasting versions of the same incident . |
| 3 | In the eighteenth century this word had two meanings , basically different faces of the same coin . |
| 4 | It was all one to him whether he directed a battle or a raid from his headquarters and left the action to others , or himself went to work with lance or sword in the centre of the din ; they were merely complementary skills in the same comprehensive expertise . |
| 5 | This is one of the most dangerous falsehoods among the many which are advanced by the federalists . |
| 6 | One would find it hard to imagine two more utterly different aspects of the same country than the southern and northern coasts of Spain . |
| 7 | The reader may be confused to find what we here call bivalves , referred to in other books as pelecypods or lamellibranchs — these are just different names for the same animals . |
| 8 | They can be used to mask more controversial issues in the same way as usage of the labels purpose or reasonableness . |
| 9 | To the extent that there is an elision in the terms of debate , and the concept of postmodern arrangements is aligned only with a ‘ free ’ labour market variant of organizational forms , which actually means freedom for a few and restriction to much more repressive conditions for the many , then the terms of debate and choice are unnecessarily restricted . |
| 10 | These two are always concurrent aspects of the same process , and are always united in a subject 's mode of becoming . |
| 11 | This superbly efficient oven is also highly economical to use as you can cook three or more different dishes at the same time . |
| 12 | Residential staff and fieldwork staff operate under different auspices within the same local authority . |
| 13 | Parasitology will still public papers of the same high standard from authors of international reputation , making it essential reading for all those working and researching in the field . |
| 14 | Presidents usually nominate persons of the same political party as themselves , but at the lower levels of the federal judiciary a critical factor in the President 's choice is the views of the senators of the state in which the appointee is to serve . |
| 15 | The flourishing of more liberal trends during the latter part of the war and the early 1920s seemed to mark a shift from autocratic , oligarchic rule to representative party politics , giving the period the title ‘ Taishó democracy ’ , after the Taishó emperor who came to the throne in 1912 . |
| 16 | If , say , £400 seems the prudent limit for a particular borrower , but that borrower gets two or more separate cards with the same credit limit , he can use at least twice the amount of credit which has been judged ‘ safe ’ for him . |
| 17 | This occurs where general offers are made by two or more separate offerors for the same target company . |
| 18 | The confidence which was necessary for the successful functioning of a coinage tended to encourage a conservative approach to its design , and one of the largest and most abundant coinages of the ancient world , that of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BC , deliberately preserved an archaic appearance , as a comparison with more up-to-date treatments of the same subject reveals ( fig. 9 ) . |
| 19 | Both of these sentences exemplify lexical dissonance ( i.e. a semantic clash , involving two or more lexical items in the same sentence ( or discourse ) ) . |
| 20 | More expensive items in the same range should be finely knotted and possess cleanly articulated and symmetrically arranged decorative forms . |
| 21 | It had consolidated its position by a series of popular decisions annulling some of the most hated acts of the former regime , such as the laws against abortion and the rural systematization programme [ see pp. 36620-21 ] , and , above all , by providing food supplies from stocks previously destined for export . |
| 22 | Barrett was the first to suggest that these fibrotic conditions were inter-related and probably different manifestations of the same disorder . |
| 23 | The three polymerases show slightly different affinities for the same promoter . |
| 24 | For downward transitions you tighten your buttocks and straighten your upper body also closing knees at the same time . |
| 25 | The groups consist of carefully selected members of the same potential market segment or audience to be reached with the advertising , so they are likely to get on together . |
| 26 | The partnership 's work-in-progress and other assets were divided between B and W , who continued to work as sole practitioners from the same offices as before . |
| 27 | It is clear that we can hold partially or severely differing opinions about the same individual in different roles . |
| 28 | One of the reasons for the slow advance in understanding syphilis and gonorrhoea was the belief that the two conditions were simply different manifestations of the same disease . |
| 29 | The physical events in my brain , and the feelings that I have , are not alternative and mutually exclusive causes of my actions : they are simply different aspects of the same cause . |
| 30 | Although they are often cited as an instrument of central control , their effectiveness is difficult to determine because individual local authorities- and sometimes even different departments within the same authority — react differently to them . |