Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " 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 Then the smell of warm grass came to join that of the roses and gunpowder and he fell asleep for a few moments , dreaming of cricket fields and meadows .
5 He fell asleep for a few hours just before dawn and woke cold and cramped , his head on the small desk , his body somehow wedged on the stool .
6 Tabitha looked around in vain for a few minutes .
7 2 Heat the oil in a small frying pan and fry the turmeric for a few seconds .
8 The keel stayed solid for a few moments , then clouded and became clear as glass .
9 Even then , you might still finish each day feeling guilty about the many chores which inevitably remain undone .
10 Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) .
11 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 .
12 Only four or so turns of the screw secure the blade , and quick changes were possible after a little practice .
13 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 .
14 It has been shown that measuring these antibodies to establish the diagnosis of coeliac disease is helpful but not completely reliable as a few cases would be missed .
15 what is particularly interesting about the latter findings is that four-fifths of the socially mobile were born outside Colombia .
16 He was standing in the far corner , talking to some men , and she was able to view him unobserved for a few moments .
17 Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so
18 I know , we 're not er we ai n't af we ai n't afraid of a few bum workers cos we have got er good engineers like , you know ?
19 What 's wrong with a few tears ?
20 However , as you know , you must be very , very careful with the few years that remain to you . ’
21 The tendency for horizontal influence to extend into regions that are quite unaffected in the absence of stratification is loosely analogous with the same tendency in other types of stratified flow as discussed in Section 15.1 .
22 The areas protected by these systems , both sprinkler and ventilation systems and controllable from the same point , should coincide .
23 Action : The file in the directory is physically different from the same version held in LIFESPAN — does the LIFESPAN header need updating ?
24 However , what may look like a good deal now , as the UK emerges from its adjustment period of higher interest rates and recession , could look rather different in a few years ' time .
25 Control animals received 0.5 ml of physiological saline in the same manner .
26 would be unwise for us in analysing our 1983 data to treat the unemployed in the same way as in 1972 without at least considering whether this might not seriously distort our results ; more specifically , it would seem important to examine what effect it would have on he 1983 mobility [ results ] if unemployment , or at all events long-term unemployment , were itself regarded as a mobility ‘ status ’ or outcome .
27 While little data is presented here it is clear from the few examples given that the ANLT has problems with ‘ real ’ language — the number of possible parses produced and the failure to parse — which would not be solved by additional computational power .
28 She remembered only two things about New York with affection : the man at Pennsylvania Station , perched high in a little glass box , who announced the trains in the rhythm of a square dance , and the man who returned her purse which she 'd dropped on the platform — a black man .
29 A must for all who know B.C. or may have visited the area and to anyone interested in the many facets of rural life as it was in years gone by ( ISBN 0951596403 , price £5.95 ) .
30 The present project will produce a complete transcription of the journals , edited to make them accessible to scholars and others interested in the many aspects of early nineteenth century life on which they throw light .
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