Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organic molecules , some of them of the same general types as are normally only found in living things , have spontaneously assembled themselves in these flasks . |
| 2 | There are stars galore in the operatic firmament , with , alongside to say nothing of the many famous names featured in the historical anthologies . |
| 3 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 4 | Which of the many recent changes played the major part in the university disturbances of the early 1860s is unclear . |
| 5 | Yet another Messiah on ‘ early ’ instruments , conspiring no doubt to send retailers completely mad in their attempts to decide which of the many available readings they should plump for . |
| 6 | A more open mind was required to discover which of the many possible patterns God had actually chosen to instantiate . |
| 7 | According to ‘ positioning theory ’ this understanding of behaviour is a mutual creation through the interaction of the parties depending upon which of the many possible selves has been confirmed in the ‘ storyline ’ that is accepted . |
| 8 | Clearly , there are other possibilities , and it is far from obvious , at this stage of the development of the subject , just which of the many possible formulations is the best . |
| 9 | Urquhart held himself with the same appealing forcefulness as when he walked . |
| 10 | Most remarkable of all is the degree of concentration in London , which on the same functional basis is as large as the eight next largest cities in Britain put together ( Champion et al. , 1984 , Champion , Green , Owen , Ellin and Coombes , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Your occupational therapist or physiotherapist will advise you about the many ingenious gadgets available which might be useful . |
| 12 | None of the many experimental techniques are foolproof , but the Ericsson method for separating girl-producing sperm from boy-producing sperm is for sale in a string of clinics in the US . |
| 13 | The Caledonian orogeny in reaching its climax at the end of Silurian times , expressed itself along the same Taconian lines and along the lines that were , much later , to be the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 14 | The Socialist League began to find itself in the same critical relationship with the Labour Party which had forced its predecessor , the ILP , to disaffiliate . |
| 15 | So , for instance , if you wanted access to a management information system on your Unix computer , to an accounts system running on a mainframe , and to a spreadsheet running locally on the PC , it would be possible to reach all of them via the same windowing front-end . |
| 16 | They viewed me with the same puzzled look as I later saw on the faces of nomads miles from civilization . |
| 17 | She regards me with the same bright smile as her child 's , but tears are rolling down her face and her eyes say , ‘ I 'm losing her . ’ |
| 18 | They do not even have to be alike at all beyond some minimum range of conditions which puts them into the same political category . |
| 19 | The question is whether the institutions will adopt the same rather altruistic attitude that they did then now that their income from even the best-performing companies will shrink permanently unless action is taken by the companies to leave them with the same net effect . |
| 20 | He was not looking forward to the events which he knew lay ahead of him that morning , but he dismissed all such thoughts from his mind : pleasant and unpleasant , most tasks were equal to him now : he viewed them with the same cold dispassion — so many tasks in each day , so many days in each week , so many weeks in each year . |
| 21 | Visible now only in the panoramic view , the young woman appeared to be throwing something towards the few remaining Counsellors . |
| 22 | When he gives evidence , sitting for the most part on two cushions , he leans forwards attentively like a headmaster , and with something of the same terrifying effect . |
| 23 | The image , of course , centres around the fact that faith and doubt have something of the same curious relationship as health and sickness . |
| 24 | Something of the same emotional patterns are evinced by managers through the metaphors and myths of management which they carry in their minds . |
| 25 | Something of the same special place of ‘ retreat ’ for art , especially literature and painting , is to be found in Foucault . |
| 26 | Charles was about the same age as Richie and had something of the same military bearing . |
| 27 | And she walked out of the room with something of the same wary insistence on normality . |
| 28 | Something of the same territorial influence can be detected in other counties too ; in the East Midlands , the spheres of the Dukes of Rutland and Devonshire were rarely challenged . |
| 29 | Unable to find one with the same outward-opening flap , he did the next best thing and took an average price for similar letter-boxes and forwarded you a cheque for this amount . |
| 30 | GOLFING taxi driver Derek Funcks defied odds of several millions to one by hitting a hole in one … and then hitting another hole in one on the same round . |