Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carter had advocated deregulation , but he approached reform via legislation whereas his successor sought the same end primarily through administrative action . |
| 2 | It is a good idea to practise this technique using the same piece of music each time and the length of one side of a cassette or record ( usually about twenty minutes ) is just about right for this exercise . |
| 3 | The shell plays the same role for a snail as the stone house does for a caddis larva . |
| 4 | ( Note , though , that once prices have risen , people will need more money to conduct the same amount of transactions . ) |
| 5 | As both the active and the passive sentence mean the same thing , it is reasonable to ask why we need both . |
| 6 | If we now increase the current in the opposite direction B will decrease further reaching zero at R , and negative saturation at S. The other half of the curve STUP displays the same behaviour . |
| 7 | The processing time was approximately 3 seconds per sentence using the same computer ( a Sparc 4/75 with 48 MBytes of memory ) , and LISP system ( KCL ) as the ANLT investigation . |
| 8 | Flagstad gave the songs their première , so it 's intriguing to hear her successor bring the same kind of broad sweep , sincerity of purpose and rewarding breath-control to them . |
| 9 | But the lanky striker got no such protection from his own manager following the 24th-minute incident as Reid blasted : ‘ We all know the rules and there is no excuse for that . |
| 10 | The further out from York the new settlement goes the less self contained it will be , the more the tendency will be for travel into the city , which is the main service centre to be car based . |
| 11 | A proportionate tax distributes these burdens as a ratio of income : each taxpayer contributes the same proportion of income in tax . |
| 12 | Calvin turns a little way around but he does not speak or make eye contact . |
| 13 | The girl 's bike has the same specification as the boy 's but comes with mudguards and a carrier at the back . |
| 14 | The Mazda text has the same feel of awkwardness and lack of orientation about it as Halliday 's constructed example . |
| 15 | Therefore , since the cost reduction has the same effect as the price reduction but has other effects in addition , it is more worthwhile to strive after , if it is equally easy to obtain . " |
| 16 | One of the most significant recent developments is the emergence of Muslim youth groups , united by their desire to see Islam enjoy the same protection as Christianity . |
| 17 | Honey contains some sucrose as well as glucose and fructose ; 1 teaspoon of honey has the same amount of calories as one teaspoon of sucrose . |
| 18 | Yesterday Sudbury chairman Iain Hook said the club 's case was based on the fact the division four clubs had a greater need for support as a result of their geographical locations and inability to attract the same amount of outside backing as top clubs . |
| 19 | This category has the least security , but the greatest freedom of manoeuvre . |
| 20 | But workers against racism say a former prison is the wrong place . |
| 21 | ( Initial results on both infants reported in the text used the same procedure but with non-competition trials only and a target contrast of 88% ) . |
| 22 | Both the phosphorylation of receptors and their absence means that it takes more of the drug to obtain the same effect . |
| 23 | By contrast , a computer has no such knowledge . |
| 24 | But even the computer needs a little help . |
| 25 | Let us now make the question more precise , and ask whether the experience has the same effect at any time , or whether there are particular ‘ sensitive periods ’ at which it will be more influential than at others . |
| 26 | But still it is very carefully structured with a setting verse , a narrative verse and finishing off with a reflective verse and 10 syllables in each line and Futility has the same feeling of careful planning and construction . |
| 27 | more money to provide the same level of service . |
| 28 | The time-averaged spectrum has the same form as equation ( 1 ) , but with a normalization of . |
| 29 | It transmits a signal of continuous dots and activates a White light flashing the same signal . |
| 30 | In practice the demands of the administration made the latter appointment impractical . |