Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skill descriptions are generalisable in that human operators have characteristic abilities and limitations and therefore have tendencies to perform in the same way . |
| 2 | Livestock stocking densities are substantially higher ( 40% in 1979/80 ) in Powys than in Cantal ( though sheep predominate in the former and cattle in the latter ) . |
| 3 | Perhaps the best hope for progress lies in the many examples of good practice that already exist and which the Act simply reflects and builds on . |
| 4 | Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter . |
| 5 | Hewlett and Mrs Lowndes moved in the same influential circles . |
| 6 | Yoma 's former husband Ibrahim al Ibrahim , appointed by Menem as Chief of Customs at Buenos Aires international airport , along with a former government official , Mario Caserta , had also been accused of drug laundering in the same report . |
| 7 | Male workplaces are even more segregated ( 81 per cent of the husbands interviewed in the same survey in 1980 had no colleagues of the opposite sex doing the same type of work ) . |
| 8 | In another experiment reported in the same article , Kleiman observed the interference effects in a slightly different word-processing task . |
| 9 | A trade union to my mind stands in the same position . |
| 10 | But he and Eleanor moved in the same set socially . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The words contained in the former definition of larceny , in section 1 of the Larceny Act 1916 , ‘ without the consent of the owner , ’ have been omitted , and , we have no doubt , deliberately omitted from the definition of theft in the new Act . |
| 13 | MEMBERS of the Lloyd 's insurance market will have capital gains on their premium funds taxed in the same way as those of other corporate insurers the Chancellor said . |
| 14 | Muhammad written in the latter part of Jumada II 819/August 1416 . |
| 15 | It did n't take long to get Graham 's eyes looking in the same direction . |
| 16 | Possibly dinosaurs living in the latter phase had developed complex social structures , as today occurs in some reptilian genera . |
| 17 | Rory and Tony Underwood become the first brothers to play in the same England side since the war , while Bath No 8 Ben Clarke makes his debut . |
| 18 | We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before . |
| 19 | Only eight out of 26 ministers retained their posts in a new Cabinet announced on July 19 ; key ministries remaining in the same hands included Defence under Maj.-Gen. |
| 20 | On 5 April , a set of fissures opened in the same place , and showers of incandescent fragments of lava were ejected . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a pleasure to play in the same side as a true football genius . |
| 22 | In fact , the fusion experimental programme was sporadic until 1988 : the main experimental fusion programme began in the latter part of that year . |
| 23 | It was Louisa as much as the doctor who supervised the carrying of Emilia into the Hall , holding her cold hand , murmuring small phrases of consolation and encouragement as the improvised litter was lifted carefully up the stairs and the invalid laid in the same bed where she had passed her first night at Easterness . |
| 24 | Unless operations are severely restricted the risk , albeit small , will remain as long as low- and high-speed aircraft operate in the same lower airspace . |
| 25 | If the lads continue in the same vein , then we can climb out of trouble . |
| 26 | These dances mattered very much to Petipa and all nineteenthcentury balletmasters because they were expected to show off the wealth of talent found in the many imperial , Royal and State theatres , e.g. all the characters from other fairy tales who came to Aurora 's wedding and the character dances in Swan Lake . |
| 27 | With the narrow lanes around Bentworth , any approaching traffic would have had to give way and cars travelling in the same direction could have been held up . |
| 28 | There may be more scope for a GIS approach in the latter than in the former situations . |
| 29 | Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting . |
| 30 | Jean worked in the same department as a Spotter and Darner since she joined the company in 1969 . |