Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 However , it 's the notes in the former chord which by intervallic interchange become chromatic notes in the latter chord , and it 's this approach which produces the most effective results .
2 The airport duties made a pleasant change for a few of our lads , and one of them was offered a helicopter flight to the rigs one day .
3 To do this , and to be able to return to all shareholders the full 100p value of their initial investment , the managers must achieve compound growth of 6.8 per cent — a modest target given their plan to invest 80 per cent of the fund in UK blue-chip companies and the fact that the top 20 Footsie stocks last year accounted for 40 per cent of the total income of the FT-all share index .
4 A population density of 35 per square mile gives less than 1,000 possible contacts within three miles to any individual : a density of 10,000 per square mile gives him 280,000 possible contacts in the same radius .
5 These features make the life of reconstituted families very complex ; they can not be seen as enclosed entities in the same way as cereal-packet nuclear families are .
6 Very small farms in the east of England also suffered from low income during the same period .
7 This decrease in the CO2 yield corresponds to the increase in hydrocarbon yield ( the total cumulative yield : is the same for both coals ) and since chemical analyses of the Palaeozoic and Tertiary coals at the same maturity were very similar , it can be inferred that there are internal differences in the chemical structures of the two coal types .
8 He knew that a conspiracy ( exposed with the maximum publicity ) to murder the king and Parliament in one horrific holocaust would cause public opinion to recoil into solid support for the less than popular James I and himself .
9 It is working in partnership with Norway 's Statoil on other opportunities , including possible projects in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan , as part of the process of taking a longer look ahead at business prospects than the average City scribbler cares to take into account .
10 The defence doctrine pointed out the risks to the country posed by regional conflicts in the former Soviet Union .
11 The 1902 eruption of Mt Pelee was the first recognized example of a Peleean eruption , a very different kind of phenomenon from the ‘ ordinary ’ Vesuvian or Plinian types , although Peleean eruptions often occur as short-lived side-shows to the latter .
12 A group of operators ( note , these are people with extensive experience of the same or similar tasks , not the unskilled performer normally used in human performance experiments ) run through a task using this equipment .
13 Also known as Gwrageth Anoon , these beautiful blonde water-maidens live in rich palaces beneath the many lakes of Wales .
14 The Supreme Court on March 4 formally recognized that 61 workers sentenced in December 1987 for their role in the Brasov riots had been political prisoners of the former Communist regime .
15 As Professor Newark has pointed out , the courts now understand non-natural user in the latter sense .
16 The changing pattern of employment therefore — the shift from blue-collar to white-collar occupations and the pre-eminence of professional and technical groups within the latter category — is not merely a general feature of post-industrialism , it is one of central significance .
17 In this definition u 1 and u 2 are quite general quantities ; but as examples , they could be simultaneous values of the same component of the velocity at two different points , or two different components of the velocity at a single point .
18 A VILLAGE post office was raided early yesterday — hours after police ambushed an armed gang after the same target .
19 But why are non-green products on the same shelf in the first place ?
20 In other words , subjective response to the same noise level will be different at two sites if noise levels have recently undergone a change at one site .
21 It was either recovery or recession , modernising the health service or commercialising it , investing in all children or preserving opportunity for a few , said Mr Kinnock .
22 ON THE RIGHT BERNARD DURING THE SAME VISIT .
23 But persistent exposure to the same paper-type at least three times a week for a whole year may well have some effect , particularly if it is a preelection year when the political temperature usually rises .
24 Roughly , linguistic communication consists in the production of some external , publicly observable , acoustic phenomenon whose phonetic and syntactic structure encodes a speaker 's inner , private thoughts or ideas and the decoding of the phonetic and syntactic structure exhibited in such a physical phenomenon by other speakers in the form of an inner private experience of the same thoughts or ideas .
25 ( The latter is a later adaptation of a little used part of the former ) .
26 The timetable will include the established ‘ Vintage Train ’ ( original TR Loco and coaches dating from 1865/6 ) , and also a ‘ Heritage Train ’ which will include the historic coaches from the former Glyn Valley Tramway and Corris Railway .
27 Samples were taken from three different normal subjects in the same physiological conditions .
28 These findings were similar to the results of an earlier retrospective study by the same research team of forty-eight families who had a child ( aged five to eight years ) admitted into residential care ( Quinton and Rutter , 1984a ; 1984b ) .
29 So , whereas in the psychoanalytic account , homophobia might well signal the precariousness and instability of identity , even of sexual difference itself , in the materialist socio-political account it typically signals the reverse , namely that sexual difference is being secured , homophobia being ‘ a mechanism for regulating the behaviour of the many by the specific oppression of a few ’ ( Sedgwick , Between Men , 88 ) .
30 The utilitarian , according to Williams , would consider a right action to the that action which , of all available actions , produces the greatest degree of happiness .
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