Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [art] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Effectively , you agree with a bank that on , say , 1 January you will pay the bank interest on a notional principal calculated using a fixed interest rate reflecting the current yield curve ; the bank will pay you interest on the same notional principal at whatever interest rate pertains on 1 January . |
| 2 | Rent a horse or a motor bike and explore on a few leisurely sorties . |
| 3 | Because they they 've condensed it and just put in a few little bits and pieces ! |
| 4 | Arriving at the sports hall door we all ( all being the 984 pupils in the school ) remove our shoes and walk to the half square metre of floor allocated for each pupil , taking our shoes with us . |
| 5 | Since coalification and oil and gas generation depend on the same diagenetic factors , namely temperature and heating time , coalification data can be matched with stages of oil and gas maturation . |
| 6 | One way to deal with this is to express each result from an individual as a percentage of the mean value for that person ; in this way , all vary about the same mean value of 100 per cent . |
| 7 | So called ’ Socialist ’ feminists , in true liberal style , fail to put forward a strategy to end capitalism , putting all their energies into the Labour Party who stand for the same redundant ideas which go nowhere towards real change . |
| 8 | It left the world unchanged save in a few interesting particulars . |
| 9 | A company which does not allow a woman to return to work after maternity leave is regarded ( save in a few exceptional circumstances described in the small print of the legislation ) as having dismissed her . |
| 10 | Most of the other stars that are visible to the naked eye lie within a few hundred light-years of us . |
| 11 | Scatter with a few crystallised flowers if available . |
| 12 | Because all snail genes have an equal stake in every sperm and every egg , because they all participate in the same unpartisan meiosis , they work together for the common good , and therefore tend to make the snail body a coherent , purposeful vehicle . |
| 13 | Interestingly , this is the period in which parietal cells disappear from the same anatomical site in most subjects . |
| 14 | Although these two expressions have the same referent ( they both refer to the same celestial object , Venus ) , they differ in sense , as the evening star means " the star which appears in the evening " , and the morning star means " the star which appears in the morning " . |
| 15 | There are new flat roof systems about which are supposed to be better , but they suffer from the same inherent disadvantages as their earlier counterparts . |
| 16 | or if we 're stuck get our heads together and drag in a few extra bodies |
| 17 | It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore . |
| 18 | More generally on durability , it seems that the requirement that the goods be of merchantable quality is a continuing requirement that they will continue to be of merchantable quality for a reasonable period after delivery so long as they remain in the same apparent state as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . |
| 19 | In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock said that the condition of fitness for purpose was a continuing obligation ‘ that the goods will continue to be fit for that purpose for a reasonable time after delivery , so long as they remain in the same apparent state and condition as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . ’ |
| 20 | Consider a cube which is disassembled into its pieces and imagine reassembling the pieces so that the outside facelets remain outside and the centres remain in the same relative positions . |
| 21 | Blend for a few more seconds . |
| 22 | Next , lift your hands several centimetres above your partner 's body and continue with the same sweeping movements , though this time you will be working on the etheric body . |
| 23 | Precisely either Professor and his party believe in the that certain courses of action are right , that they espouse certain policies or they become hopeless opportunists . |
| 24 | Record companies throughout the world operate in the same basic way . |
| 25 | Dishwashing etc. machines : Despite being used for a variety of functions , including cleaning crockery , bottles , trays , crates and numerous other items , these machines all operate on the same general principle . |
| 26 | I appeal to the same verbal trick as I used in Chapter 3 . |
| 27 | Most rely on a few basic chord progressions , eke out their standard 3 minutes 20 seconds with a brief instrumental solo , and close with a bridge passage between two choruses . |
| 28 | This stands for Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering and erm under this scheme , a company erm can have a problem tackled by a research student working in a university and erm a supervisor , and indeed in this case , the input , the financial input , by the company may be quite small , may only amount to a few hundred pounds . |
| 29 | It must be stressed , however , that an option-pricing approach implicitly takes into account the cost of funds and that it should , in theory , arrive at the same current valuation figure as the DCF method . |
| 30 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |