Example sentences of "[coord] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He remembers sitting on a hard seat , among a hundred other candidates in a large , impressively ancient room , scribbling a General Essay paper for three hours on EITHER Political Necessity OR ‘ Enrichissez-vous ! ’ not at all sure what the examiners would be looking for in the answers — their ideas or his ideas , or the former subtly disguised as the latter , or the latter masquerading as the former .
2 So we might say my friend Ellen Blair , or the former chairman Ellen Blair , or a nurse in the ward called Ellen Blair , giving , in some sense , ‘ credentials ’ for her existence and for her relationship to the speaker who is responsible for introducing her into the conversation .
3 Efficiency could be measured in terms of speed of performance , the least amount of storage required or the least number of program lines .
4 SHOPPING FOR CLOTHES — OR THE ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL WAY TO RUIN TWO GREAT INSTITUTIONS
5 Clash them within the same sweater , or the same dress .
6 ( 2 ) Not more than four occasional permissions may be granted by a licensing board in any one year on behalf of the same voluntary organisation or the same branch of a voluntary organisation .
7 This may be linked to : ( a ) structures of the subject being taught ; ( b ) progression in the number of components of the subject pupils may be expected to have learned in the course of their instruction ; ( c ) the degree of difficulty of typical test items ; ( d ) sequences which correspond to the teaching approaches of the designers of a graded assessment scheme ; 4 all of the items in a test are at a similar or the same level of difficulty ; 5 tests are intended to be taken only when pupils are ready for them ; 6 performance on tests is described in terms of " pass ' and " fail " , rather than a mark or grade .
8 Horses of the same family or the same breed are more likely to be empathic , and so to get on together the best .
9 In one of their questions they asked respondents whether their job required more , less or the same skill as when they had started work .
10 Upper panel : Percentage of chloramphenicol acetylated following transfection of BHK-21 cells or HeLa cells with pBL 2 CAT vector ( V ) or the same vector with a single copy of the HPV 16 octamer and adjacent NF1 site ( 16 ) or the equivalent region of HPV6 ( 6 ) .
11 Short circuits are fine but they just do n't generate the same interest or the same type of nail biting racing , do they ?
12 We generally rehearse either the day before or the same day , so it 's all very fresh . ’
13 ft , or the same floor space could be obtained on a smaller part of the site by building higher , and so releasing land for car parking and other uses .
14 It does n't have to be from the same range , but the pieces should have something in common — such as being in the same or similar wood or style , having the same upholstery fabric or the same colour .
15 Imamu and Boo are not similar in the way that they are both the same age or the same colour , but what makes them similar and comparable is that they are both outsiders in society .
16 Sexual acts outside marriage are wrong , whether between those of opposite or the same sex .
17 Precedent has been laid down that cause for separation lies where a spouse resorts to " unnatural practices " with a third party and , perhaps , where a spouse submits to " indecent liberties " by a person of the opposite or the same sex ( Mogg v.
18 If a method of collecting evidence is reliable , it means that anybody else using this method , or the same person using it at another time , would come up with the same results .
19 But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying .
20 Or the same person in another skin .
21 No two speakers of English ( or any other language ) have the entirely the same vocabulary or the same pronunciation .
22 What I think my colleague is saying is that when the actuary is assessing the commitments of the funds , he is looking at the anticipated increased earnings until the person retires and I think when the calculation is made for somebody who is er a deferred pensioner of leaving er a pension fund to take his money elsewhere a similar calculation or the same calculation should be used , the one that the actuary last used in , in looking forward and saying what the commitments are .
23 Ambiguity in written English may arise from different words having the same spelling ( homonyms ) or the same word having a number of meanings .
24 Not all people had exactly the same experiences or the same viewpoint .
25 This leads him to conclude that the Sons of Light , the Sons of Truth , the Sons of Zadok , or Zaddikim ( Zadokites ) , the Men of Melchizedek ( the z-d-k ending reflecting a variation of Zadok ) , the Ebionim ( the Poor ) , the Hassidim ( the Essenes ) and the Nozrim ( the Nazareans ) are ultimately one and the same — not different groups , but different metaphors or appellations for essentially the same group , or the same movement .
26 ( c.26 ) " Since the kingdom consists of different regions , officers of the first , second , and indeed any rank should so far as possible be picked from different regions , so that [ men from ] the various regions should be able to come to the palace with a greater sense of knowing their way around ( familiarius ) since they would know that men who were from the same kin-group ( genealogia ) or the same region held a place there . "
27 When the Legislative Power is united with the Executive Power in the same person or body of magistrates , there is no liberty because it is to be feared that the same Monarch or the same Senate will make tyrannical laws in order to execute them tyrannically .
28 All would be lost if the same man , or the same body of chief citizens , or the nobility , or the people , exercised these three powers , that of making laws , that of executing public decisions , and that of judging the crimes or the disputes of private persons .
29 It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway .
30 In fact , Donaldson and Balfour , and nearly all the researchers who followed them , gave children questions with more on one occasion , and questions with less on another , so the two terms never appeared in the same session or the same block .
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