Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 It would not be possible for the same midget ganglion cells to be optimized for both functions .
2 She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it .
3 hence a larger sample is possible for the same expenditure
4 Travelling by train from Gatwick Airport to London , I felt sorry for the many foreign visitors struggling to follow the announcements made over the loudspeaker .
5 Then the smell of warm grass came to join that of the roses and gunpowder and he fell asleep for a few moments , dreaming of cricket fields and meadows .
6 He fell asleep for a few hours just before dawn and woke cold and cramped , his head on the small desk , his body somehow wedged on the stool .
7 High academic success did not come immediately to Roberts — he went as an undergraduate to the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ) rather than the prestigious Cal-Tech , because his high school grades were too low for the latter .
8 Tabitha looked around in vain for a few minutes .
9 Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road .
10 2 Heat the oil in a small frying pan and fry the turmeric for a few seconds .
11 The keel stayed solid for a few moments , then clouded and became clear as glass .
12 Even then , you might still finish each day feeling guilty about the many chores which inevitably remain undone .
13 Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) .
14 Danish pig prices were stable during the latter half of June , at just under 102p/kg , but started dropping about 1p/kg a week from the beginning of July .
15 Only four or so turns of the screw secure the blade , and quick changes were possible after a little practice .
16 While there are also a number of texts that claim to be fabliaux but which are not now considered to belong to the genre , the common characteristics of the type ( described below ) are sufficiently clear for the same number of texts again to be identified with and added to the self-proclaimed fabliaux .
17 It has been shown that measuring these antibodies to establish the diagnosis of coeliac disease is helpful but not completely reliable as a few cases would be missed .
18 what is particularly interesting about the latter findings is that four-fifths of the socially mobile were born outside Colombia .
19 He was standing in the far corner , talking to some men , and she was able to view him unobserved for a few moments .
20 Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so
21 I know , we 're not er we ai n't af we ai n't afraid of a few bum workers cos we have got er good engineers like , you know ?
22 What 's wrong with a few tears ?
23 The machine will ironically be more compatible with HP applications than Convex C Series ones , but it will be source code-compatible with the latter — an applications base of 1,300 .
24 The machine will ironically be more compatible with Hewlett-Packard applications than Convex C Series ones , but it will be source code-compatible with the latter — an applications base of 1,300 .
25 However , as you know , you must be very , very careful with the few years that remain to you . ’
26 The tendency for horizontal influence to extend into regions that are quite unaffected in the absence of stratification is loosely analogous with the same tendency in other types of stratified flow as discussed in Section 15.1 .
27 Again , advice and assistance may be different with the latter requiring some positive action on behalf of the client .
28 The areas protected by these systems , both sprinkler and ventilation systems and controllable from the same point , should coincide .
29 It may ensure that , beneath the new uniform , our function remains in effect little different from the former ‘ ambulance service ’ ( Golby and Gulliver 1979 ) instead of increasingly becoming that of ‘ consultants in road-safety ’ .
30 Tomorrow would be a business presentation , no different from the many she had already attended for other campaigns .
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