Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The operation or termination of the account of a member borrowing on a class 1 or class 2 advance and the grant or refusal to grant a borrowing member of that description other or further class 1 , or as the case may be , class 2 advances secured on the same or different land or other facilities normally available to borrowing members of his description . |
| 2 | Six families living near the former Lambton Road , Middlesbrough , home of widower Thomas Pemberton , 64 , signed affidavits after asking the council to act . |
| 3 | Clarke usually worked at home , often with their five daughters and three sons playing in the same room . |
| 4 | After twenty minutes , three trains arrived at the same time . |
| 5 | There are three shows left in the same venue . |
| 6 | In this chapter I shall argue that the no boundary condition for the universe , together with the weak anthropic principle , can explain why all three arrows point in the same direction — and moreover , why a well-defined arrow of time should exist at all . |
| 7 | His body is still here in the woods with three others killed in the same action . ’ |
| 8 | She wandered through to the study and whiled away ten minutes putting in the few remaining border pieces . |
| 9 | Some 50 others associated with the former government were also detained . |
| 10 | Fifteen years working for the same company . |
| 11 | Teams of officials from Britain , Hong Kong and China had spent five days haggling over the many points of disagreement left over from the visit of Douglas Hurd , the British foreign secretary , to China last month . |
| 12 | It sounded like twelve machines running at the same time . |
| 13 | Those over 65 years declined in the same period from 13% of all farmers to 10% . |
| 14 | No man has any reason to say that any two states belong to the same self unless he has a reason to believe them to be caused by the same body . |
| 15 | In the second place , even those people who have heard of the doctrine , and who accept it , do not , in far the greater number of cases , base their judgements that two states belong to the same self on a previous conviction that they are caused by the same body . |
| 16 | At least two reasons account for the latter . |
| 17 | According to this view , interbreeding is at the same time the criterion of whether two forms belong to the same species ( e.g. the dark and pale forms of the arctic skua interbreed freely , so they belong to the same species ) , and also the reason why organisms in nature do fall into discrete categories , with few intermediates . |
| 18 | In class structure grammar ( see under grammar ) , most clauses have only one subject , but there are occasions where two subjects occur in the same clause . |
| 19 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
| 20 | The only way , in those circumstances , that relief might be obtained is to press the inspector of taxes to assess the vendor company under Sch A. But would that be self-defeating within two companies controlled by the same individual ? |
| 21 | The BBC , who did not wish to go live , will take recorded highlights , the two companies agreeing on the same commentators . |
| 22 | He noted , in his journal in October 1919 , that there had been an increase of 37 vagrants attending the institution as ‘ casuals ’ in the previous two weeks compared with the same period the previous year ; six of them were discharged soldiers . |
| 23 | In a dream a tall thin priest informed him that the two pieces came from the same votive cylinder and had been cut in two to make earrings for a statue of the god Ninib . |
| 24 | There seems to be no sense in which the idea of the Commonwealth can be said to have developed from Indirect Rule , but the similarity of the language employed , and the fact that enthusiasts for one were usually enthusiasts for the other , would appear to suggest that the two ideas sprang from the same rich soil , composted over the years of imperial fact and imperial fancy . |
| 25 | In other words , we can make two pointers reference the same variable , or we can test whether or not two pointers point to the same variable . |
| 26 | Two lawnmowers going at the same time the neighbours must be annoyed . |
| 27 | Thirdly , material similarity , a relation referring to the degree to which two strings consist of the same characters . |
| 28 | Secondly , ordinal similarity , a relation referring to the degree in which characters in two strings occur in the same order . |
| 29 | When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing . |
| 30 | Let us determine now the mutual inductance between two coils wound on the same magnetic core ( Fig. 4.7(b) ) . |