Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after this the same Shanny became a dark greeny brown in colour and I noticed rows of eggs on the underside of a rock in his cave . |
| 2 | After 1898 the latter two of these castes were also excluded , a fact which led to protests from élite Salagamas when it became generally known . |
| 3 | Kolbe , like Belling , continued to be awarded public commissions after 1945 the former with the unobjectionable mild classicism of his female nudes , the latter by reverting to his abstract beginnings . |
| 4 | For one corporeal hereditament to fall within the curtilage of another the former must be so intimately associated with the latter as to lead to the conclusion that the former in truth forms part and parcel of the latter ( Methuen-Campbell v Walters ) . |
| 5 | Verity found that as many as ten government committees were responsible for coordinating the work of all the former undertakings , manufacturers , construction firms and consultants , and that , in addition to the planners , four Ministries — Fuel and Power , Labour , Supply ( responsible for manufacturers ) and Works ( responsible for construction sites ) — were involved . |
| 6 | Russia and Ukraine were united in rejecting the principle of shared responsibility for the debt on the part of all the former republics . |
| 7 | Our wartime experiences were nearly at an end and I sat there thinking of all the many people I had known briefly , wondering if I should see any of them again , and remembering the many whom I knew I should never see again . |
| 8 | There is abundant evidence from every country , and under every conceivable form of government in the world , that every effort to legislate for the control of all the many aspects of human behaviour fails dismally . |
| 9 | The Empire is the largest and most powerful of all the many and varied realms of the Old World . |
| 10 | Out of all the many hundreds of 16th- and 17th-century wills that I have studied , his is the only one to include a reference to its writer 's age : its intimation that on 15 November 1622 he was in his 80th year allows 1992 or 1993 to be marked as the 450th anniversary of his birth . |
| 11 | The resultant of all the many forces on teachers is often , not surprisingly , inaction and numbness . |
| 12 | Special mention simply must be make of the members of the Cathedral 's Catholic Mothers group who helped Mrs Roberton with the lynches , and who were perhaps the best of all the many good things that happened to our 1981 Christian Aid programme . |
| 13 | To the surprise of many the former Provincial Premier , Joseph Kabui emerged as a senior figure in the rebel " government " . |
| 14 | In the course of 1858 the many local committees which resulted from the circulation and publication of the Nazimov Rescript began sending their views on emancipation to St Petersburg . |
| 15 | Remarkably , the unit has been forged from members of both the former SWAPO guerrillas and the South-African backed koevert counter-insurgency force , who only two years ago were locked in a ferocious bush war . |
| 16 | You 're near enuff the same age , ent you ? ’ |
| 17 | and like erm just like all the this party |
| 18 | The aim of this Guide is to ensure that criminal practitioners know about all the many active steps which they should take in the preparation of their client 's defence . |
| 19 | That 's right , yeah she 'll be going through all the same thing trying to get money |
| 20 | As Ellen Smyth said , " women did for 14s the same work as men for 32s " .74 ( She was actually quoting the lowest rates : Amelia McLean pointed out that " stab girls " made between 15s and 25s , while piece workers got 14s to 16s ; " if all the girls in the different occupations in Edinburgh had such a wage , there would not be much to grumble about " . ) |
| 21 | In this way the various inter-relationships between all the many factors which make up an individual 's life can be seen as contributing to that individual 's health , or ill-health . |
| 22 | Ah , but I 'm not into that , I 'm into , I 'm into all the all the bits |
| 23 | As a guiding principle , it seemed to me that future business information systems must not only be able to cope with all the many individual sources of business information , but also , such systems should be able to rank those sources in importance using various appropriate criteria . |
| 24 | " But we know it is difficult for foreigners in Egypt to deal with all the many problems . |
| 25 | We are actively involved in discussion with all the former Soviet republics where nuclear weapons are at present located — particularly with Russia . |
| 26 | She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her . |
| 27 | I mean for every great Cure record you get an inferior follow-up with all the same ingredients but without the spark . |
| 28 | When Jackson 's , from courtesy , sent six copies of the new edition of The Facto– Whistle to Hilda Machin , she was round to her daughter 's with one the same day . |
| 29 | This is not to say that they convey the same sense , nor that they necessarily refer to the same event ; but given what we know , both about the real world and the fictional world , it is reasonable to infer from each the same event . |
| 30 | In each the same point can be made , that different people can see different facets of something or someone which may all be part of the whole which is beyond our complete understanding . |