Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it . |
| 2 | It would not be possible for the same midget ganglion cells to be optimized for both functions . |
| 3 | hence a larger sample is possible for the same expenditure |
| 4 | According to government figures in the first nine months of 1991 the number of immigrants of German origin ( Aussiedler ) fell to 166,786 from 337,394 for the same period of 1990 , but the number of asylum-seekers rose from 143,826 to 169,785 . |
| 5 | In spite of the decline in the number of average basic hours per week for manual workers from 46 in 1946 to 40 in 1970 , the number of average actual hours which include overtime , declined only by one hour from 47½ to 46½ during the same period . |
| 6 | The total was 109,373 compared with 101,107 for the same period last year , said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 7 | This would require that for the same amount of light energy ( measured incident solar radiation has not varied by more than 0.5% since the beginning of the twentieth century ) more carbon is fixed per unit chlorophyll ( the quantum yield has changed ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Figure 7.3 illustrates this for the same capacitor as that in Figure 7.2 . |
| 10 | Figure 7.3 illustrates this for the same capacitor as that in Figure 7.2 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | s s several decades apart , had broken this about the same place you see . |
| 13 | When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there . |
| 14 | Chris Laidlaw , the All Black halfback , was another about the same time who , in fact , teamed with Mains ' brother Rick as the inside backs in an outstanding school team . |
| 15 | The shrew 's heart beats almost 1000 times a minute , while the elephant uses up only 30 during the same period . |
| 16 | You can do this through the many Hall and Department associations , through clubs and groups at home and abroad . |
| 17 | At the same time , if two friends were running in opposition to one another for the same office , aid to one was sure to offend the other . |
| 18 | Half of the more acid lakes in southern Norway have no fish at all . |
| 19 | There is no stylistic difference between a lute song like ‘ Quel espoir de guarir ’ : and one of his ballet récits ; indeed some of the latter turn up in the lute books , as Clorinda 's despairing ‘ Toy de qui la rigueur ’ in Tancrede did with a lute accompaniment arranged by Boësset the following year . |
| 20 | Again there is nostalgic recollection of some of the former county names e.g. Pembrokeshire . |
| 21 | It was only some years later , when the over-expansion he had forecast had materialised , and some of the more obscurantist leaders of the industry had been replaced by new men , that the industry came to terms with the problem ( see pp. 212–17 , below ) . |
| 22 | Coarser gauges and of course knitting some of the more specialist yarns like Channel which in particular . |
| 23 | Some of the more alarmist projections estimated this would need to rise to one in two in the early 1990s to maintain current intake patterns ( Callender and Pearson 1989 ) . |
| 24 | The presentations of the results followed the same format as last year and journalists invited to Blackfriars were given the opportunity to sample some of the own brand products introduced into stores in 1992/93 . |
| 25 | Economies of scope are likely to arise in ( i ) railways , between passenger and freight transport using the same lines and ( ii ) electricity generation , between peak and off-peak periods , some of the same equipment being used . |
| 26 | The 1920s in Europe , at least , had seen some of the same romanticism about leaving technically advanced civilization as occurred again in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 27 | Rail users have been subjected to annual fare increases well above inflation for several years now , so it is quite justified for motorists to receive some of the same treatment . |
| 28 | So they have some of the same kind of problems that we have , but in a rather different form . |
| 29 | Tolkien and Lewis , in some of the same spirit , decided to make a party issue out of the election to the Oxford Chair of Poetry in 1938 . |
| 30 | PAHs are some of the same group of cancer-causing substances that are found in cigarette smoke , oil and vehicle exhaust fumes . |