Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [modal v] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory 2 people could pick the same team , but unlikely . |
| 2 | Agriculture campaigner Robin Maynard said : ‘ £31 million over three years might build a few ornamental ponds in the countryside but it is hardly going to generate a major shift in agricultural policy from over-intensive agriculture to sustainable farming practice . ’ |
| 3 | And at the moment no one is prepared to give evidence against the driver of the truck … but police hope an increased reward of forty thousand pounds may change a few minds . |
| 4 | Two objects may reflect the same wavelengths into our eyes yet be seen as having different colours . |
| 5 | Two methods may have the same selection of structure , vocabulary and meaning , yet differ in the order in which they teach it . |
| 6 | As a consequence , although the amount of , say , blue light reflected by the red area may have gone up , so will the amount of blue light reflected by the green area As a consequence , the ratio of blue light in the two areas will remain the same , as will the ratio of green light in the two areas and the ratio of red light . |
| 7 | A pink milk pudding or blancmange is simple in the sense that , if we slice it in two , the two portions will have the same internal constitution : a blancmange is homogeneous . |
| 8 | Two people may analyse the same thing in a different way . |
| 9 | Two people can hear the same news report , yet one ‘ hears ’ that the world is full of conflict and hatred , and another hears of the many global efforts towards love , peace and harmony . |
| 10 | Two people can read the same magazine article and one of them will get far more information out of it than the other . |
| 11 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 12 | One difference is this : Sartre 's aim is the philosophical one of redescribing the location of bodily sensations in a way which does not lend itself to such misunderstandings as that two people could feel the same pain as they can see the same table . |
| 13 | For surely it is compatible with VP , as expressed , that two sentences should have the same observational consequences but differ in meaning . |
| 14 | Two couples must win the all expenses paid trip to Australia with me , when the Breakfast Call comes live from Sydney , at the end of January . |
| 15 | Two couples must win an all expenses paid trip to Australia with me , when the Breakfast Call comes live from Sydney at the end of January . |
| 16 | Two couples must win an all expenses paid trip to Australia with me , when the show comes live from Sydney at the end of January . |
| 17 | Thus two students could attain the same marks , but the way in which the marks were interpreted depended on the perception held for each student . |
| 18 | ‘ Provision is , however , made for the possibility that at any time the two airports may have the same owner . |