Example sentences of "the [noun sg] for the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However some employers must have moved more quickly , since the Scotsman for the same day carried the following report : The masters say they have engaged workmen from England who have proved equal to the occasion , while for the past few weeks an experiment was made with educated females at the case . |
| 2 | Keep increasing the resistance for the same voltage , what happens to the current ? |
| 3 | I now suggest that the new Government should immediately sell the building for the same price so that it can become a seat of learning for talented Scottish children , such as it then produced of every walk of life . |
| 4 | For most local history purposes a simple wordlist will suffice for both Old and Middle English — the dictionary for the latter being Stratmann 's Middle English Dictionary ( Oxford 1891 ) — and what now follows are words the author has found most useful in pursuing his studies . |
| 5 | Between January and February 1991 , 38,200 tourists visited the country — just 20% of the figure for the same period in 1991 . |
| 6 | Its profits were 36 per cent down on the figure for the same period last year , thanks mainly to a huge voluntary redundancy scheme under which 28,000 staff left . |
| 7 | So far this year , drugs officers have made more than 130 seizures — twice the figure for the same time last year . |
| 8 | When we could have the maisonette for the same price . |
| 9 | Then I shall batter her with the club for the same amount of time . |
| 10 | He ended up by selling it for £500 to Mr Staples , from whom he originally bought the site for the same sum . |
| 11 | They all felt restless and unsettled , and met other young men who were walking round the town for the same reason . |
| 12 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 13 | However , this implicitly assumes that the investor may be able to reinvest the dividend for the same return at a lower risk than the firm ( or for a higher return for the same risk ) which , given the asymmetry of information , can not be the case unless the firm itself has an inferior investment policy , in which case the investor would be advised to withdraw his or her investment from the firm completely . |
| 14 | ( The tubes could not be drawn from the head/block for the same reason . ) |
| 15 | On telecommunications , Banegas took the opportunity to criticise the government for the little interest it has shown in putting an end to the import of unauthorised pirate telephones , 3m of which are now in Spain . |
| 16 | A statement of total recognised gains and losses , as required by FRS 3 , shows that the profit for the half year of £32.6m is boosted by currency translation differences on foreign currency net investments of £3.2m to produce total recognised gains and losses for the period of £35.8m . |
| 17 | As part of the deal with AA , he was required to stay with the firm for the same period of time that he had spent in the US . |
| 18 | You can marinate the skinned and boned whole breasts in the marinade for the same time , or slice into think steaks and flatten them into very thin paillards . |
| 19 | And the report for the half year will go to the council as you 've heard . |
| 20 | De La Rue chairman Peter Orchard comments : ‘ This does not have a major effect on the results of the company for the half year of for the previous year , but it does have the consequence of increasing marginally our earnings per share in both periods as the result of including within ordinary activities certain items previously classified as extraordinary . ’ |
| 21 | Thus the more nearly perfect a market is , the stronger is the tendency for the same price to be paid for the same thing at the same time in all parts of the market : but of course if the market is large , allowance must be made for the expense of delivering the goods to different purchasers ; each of whom must be supposed to pay in addition to the market price a special charge on account of delivery . |
| 22 | As I have explained , in such a case the adoption of the literal meaning of the statutory words would lead to a result whereby the taxpayer is assessed at an amount greater than that charged by the employer to the public for the same service . |
| 23 | A famous example nearer to our own time is that of the Christian martyr Simone Weil , who joined the Renault workers on the assembly line so as to share their debasement , and worked on the land for the same reason , absurdly so in view of her frail physique . |
| 24 | Slator [ 1989 ] also used the domain codes within the LDOCE for the same purpose , but only after having restructured the hierarchy of the coding system . |