Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , the award came in the same week that an article in Time Out magazine revealed an ongoing private dispute between Sellafield and the Central Electricity Generating Board ( CEGB ) about the efficiency and safety of reprocessing . |
| 2 | Business as usual The election led to a few significant changes in Northern Ireland , but mostly it 's more of the same , says Robin Wilson |
| 3 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 4 | It is interesting to note how even euphemisms , symbolizing but not presenting marked terms , can be the more amusing for the conspiracy between scriptwriter , actors and audience in recognizing the term signified at the same time as superficially recognizing that its use is a taboo not to be broken . |
| 5 | The reply came in a few minutes ago listing ten different countries with which he does business . ’ |
| 6 | The industry remained in the same place even though the conditions had changed . |
| 7 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 8 | The fighting continued for a few seconds before they realised that it was no longer dark . |
| 9 | The effect began within a few minutes but took an hour or more to reach a maximum . |
| 10 | Beside him , the girl walked at the same pace , just out of step with him . |
| 11 | However , in this case , it would not be necessary to determine that all the quanta came from the same direction : it would be enough to observe that they all arrived within a very short time interval to be reasonably confident that they were coming from the same burst . |
| 12 | The staircase gleamed , and the banisters and railings all around the gallery gave off the same sheen . |
| 13 | Erm life imprisonment should no longer be the automatic penalty for murder , that 's according to the committee chaired by the former er Lord er er former Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane . |
| 14 | While the costs levied on the latter are generally lower ( you only pay dealing charges ) , you 'll need to do more of the work to get the best possible return . |
| 15 | Some of the stories will now appear dated , and as the years ticked by a few of his novels did tend to veer on to the wrong side of the far-fetched . |
| 16 | The upshot was the establishment of four Councils : one for Scotland ( 1946 ) ; one for the North ( 1948 ) ; one for the Midlands formed in the same year ; and one for the South founded in 1951 . |
| 17 | Still , it is far from unlikely that both Swegen and Cnut did have relations with the Scandinavian colonies in Ireland , and there is just enough evidence to suggest that when the Encomiast named among the latter 's dominions not only England , Denmark and Norway , but also Brittania and Scothia , he was not necessarily exaggerating . |
| 18 | The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub . |
| 19 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 20 | Then calculate the distance walked in the same way as above . |
| 21 | Reports of the compromise emerged on the same day the contract for the EFA 's main electrical generator was awarded to a consortium including Ferranti and Telefunken . |
| 22 | Reports of the compromise emerged on the same day the contract for the EFA 's main electrical generator was awarded to a consortium including Ferranti and Telefunken . |
| 23 | Both the vet and the keeper came to the same conclusion — that Sam had eaten something that did n't agree with him , as he had n't eaten much of his food from the day before . |
| 24 | The criticism came from the former senior chief inspector , Mr. Eric Bolton , who pointed out that , under Labour 's proposals , the inspectorate , instead of advising the Secretary of State directly , would have to rely on the secondment of some senior inspectors . |
| 25 | I hope you 've found the meeting this evening positive , I 'm sure you have n't heard perhaps if the people found after the this evening and the guy up there reckons we ought to retire , well I do n't think we will retire but I think we will be responding to the things that you raised this evening I happen to think the Harlow theatre I 'm not sure how you measure success , erm I think we measure it 's success in the fact that people actually do use the building , people do come to see the shows . |
| 26 | In the final phase of the experiment , the buzzer ( a conditioned stimulus ) sounded and the dog salivated after a few seconds without the presence of any meat powder ( conditioned response ) . |
| 27 | The news came at the same time as Personal Computer World 's first annual awards — where the judges voted our 486-based PC the Best Power-User System ( see page 7 ) . |
| 28 | The news came on the same day that the car makers Rover announced another year of losses . |
| 29 | The arguments propounded by the former group vary . |
| 30 | The hyena remains that William Buckland took as evidence of the deluge belonged to the same recent period , as did the giant deer sometimes called the ‘ Irish elk ’ . |