Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] in the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The loyal workers were gobsmacked to find two months later their ex-boss had bought all his ex-machinery at the receivers ' auction for next to nothing and started up in business again under another name in the same premises . |
2 | Nor can we believe that were we to allow this application , potential future witnesses would be deterred from co-operating in investigations yet to come or the police feel inhibited from giving future reassurance as to the consequences of such co-operation in the self-same terms as at present . |
3 | They glared at each other across the table , two people in early middle age who had had the same quarrel in the same words many times . |
4 | We found that for the same journey in the same conditions , our average mpg shot up to 52 . |
5 | With most sentences , particularly non-observational sentences , no clear answer will emerge because the natives will not all behave in the same way in the same conditions . |
6 | Would he care to address the fact that because these orders are being taken separately for Wales and England it is not possible to make the quota applicable in the same way in the same parts of the United Kingdom . |
7 | At present English procedure only permits representative actions , whereby members of a group must have the same interest in the same proceedings ; the action can not seek damages , but only some other form of relief . |
8 | The American people would like the chance to return that hospitality in the many ways that are possible in our vast country . |
9 | The cracks recur each year in the same places , the wedges thicken annually , and the ground between buckles into irregular domes , ridges , or pancakes with raised edges . |