Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six weeks before the October general election , figures in mid-September showed that inflation had dropped sharply in August , rising only 0.2 per cent , while unemployment had fallen the same month to 16.6 per cent of the active workforce , the lowest level since 1982 . |
| 2 | Y , you , you h , you want , you 've got to go for neutral colours , that 's going to sort of stress the less number of people have n't you ? |
| 3 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 4 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 5 | Tuppe had travelled the latter part of the journey on the tall boy 's shoulders . |
| 6 | ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year . |
| 7 | Since 1945 just over 600 awards have been made , with 41 first bars and five second bars — a reflection of the numerous small conflicts which have plagued the latter part of the 20th Century . |
| 8 | Of all the elements that go to make up the accident causation system , the one that has received the least attention in residential areas is the design of the road network itself . |
| 9 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 10 | So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner . |
| 11 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 12 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 13 | Of all the kicks in taekwondo , the jumping side kick has probably received the most attention from the public , no doubt because its execution looks devastating and spectacular . |
| 14 | It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget . |
| 15 | If you lose the same amount of money for a second year you 're down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency . |
| 16 | There is also an upgrade to the SuperSparc ( Viking ) chip for the Sparcserver 600MP Series of multiprocessing servers , doubling the performance ceiling of these systems while maintaining the same range of price points . |
| 17 | Both LEEL , which put up £75,000 , and the region , are understood to hold deep reservations about maintaining the same level of support . |
| 18 | Always to wear the same expression on one 's face whether one is going in or coming out ? ’ |
| 19 | They are n't likely to wear the same garment for six years , as Granny might do ! |
| 20 | Japanese plans to build an international airport on the Shiraho reef have been abandoned — in favour of building the same airport on the next reef along . |
| 21 | Ltd. v. B.O.A.C. [ 1955 ] A.C. 169 , 191 , Lord Reid stated that if the arguments are fairly evenly balanced ( not that I believe they are in this case ) , that interpretation should be chosen which involves the least alteration of the existing law . |
| 22 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
| 23 | He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland . |
| 24 | Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited . |
| 25 | It is time we applied the same reasoning to all . |
| 26 | I suppose I was defending a monarchy that had in the past seen some unsuitable sovereigns , while he somewhat deftly applied the same argument to unsatisfactory prime ministers . |
| 27 | This section is concerned with the introduction and application of certain particularly useful types of equivalent circuit that display the same form of linear small-signal response as any nonlinear four-terminal network . |
| 28 | Anyway , what about Sam , who takes the Ring but hands it back with only momentary delay , Pippin and Merry , who show no desire for it at all , Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli , who display the same indifference without the excuse of ignorance , and Boromir 's brother Faramir , who realises the Ring is in his power but refuses to take it , with no more sign of mental turmoil than a ‘ strange smile ’ and a glint in the eye ? |
| 29 | His later artistic inventions display the same fascination with the possibilities of getting inside the skin of another era . |
| 30 | From Los Angeles came a report of a film theatre that shared the same building with an undertaker and where the hall itself was squalid and narrow with grease spots on the wall where ‘ delighted spectators have leaned their enraptured heads ’ . |