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

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1 Do you really believe that the first contact after weeks of silence just happened by sheer coincidence to fall on the same day as your arrival here ?
2 The debts shown in the Accounts relating to the Business ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the corresponding accounts for the preceding three financial years ) were good and collectable in full in the ordinary course of business and have or will realise the net amount thereof .
3 No debt of the Business which may be owing at Completion is overdue by more than eight weeks and the amount of such debts ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the Accounts and disclosed in the Disclosure Letter ) will be recoverable in full in the ordinary course of business and in any event not later than eight weeks after Completion and none of the said debts is subject to any counter-claim or set-off except to the extent of any such provision or reserve .
4 It would have been easy to track down , as a somewhat acidulous correspondent explained during a few remarks on the shortcomings of journalists .
5 The variables which are most highly correlated with estimated risk are the subjective risk rating given at the same time ( r=0.512 ) and average traffic flow as recorded by Cambridgeshire County Council ( r=0.398 , see Appendix 1 ) .
6 The outcome was a decision to continue with the same dosage , because what is the use of physical strength without the brain to direct it ?
7 It is not suggested that the money belongs to the former regime of Siad Barre , nor that it is the property of a government or governmental agency rather than state property belonging to the Republic .
8 The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations .
9 Business as usual The election led to a few significant changes in Northern Ireland , but mostly it 's more of the same , says Robin Wilson
10 This indicates that drinking is often a response to an inability to cope with the many losses of old age .
11 Rain said , exasperated , that each route led to the same point and that meant back to the Tunisian .
12 ‘ I have an important function to attend in a few days ’ time .
13 Company commitment and the willingness to remain with the same firm for long periods may therefore be underpinned by the prospect of heavy sacrifices that accompany the alternatives .
14 This is achieved by adjusting the spacing between the words and characters as necessary so that each line of text finishes at the same point .
15 Perhaps the best hope for progress lies in the many examples of good practice that already exist and which the Act simply reflects and builds on .
16 Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter .
17 We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on the many important proposition for future policy and action by CCW contained in this paper .
18 The oral hygiene index carried about the same level of increased risk for total mortality as for the incidence of coronary heart disease .
19 The mass graves of about 12,500 people who died from 1945 to 1950 in a Soviet prison camp located at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp were discovered near the site in September .
20 Yoma 's former husband Ibrahim al Ibrahim , appointed by Menem as Chief of Customs at Buenos Aires international airport , along with a former government official , Mario Caserta , had also been accused of drug laundering in the same report .
21 An intervention with a low probability of harm given to millions can do more damage than one with a high probability of harm given to a few
22 It was developed specifically for the larger urban workshops and consists of an adjustable loom with a device which , by altering the tension on the warp strands , shifts the completed work to the rear of the loom , allowing the weaver to sit at the same level throughout the entire rug-making process .
23 The pattern of extended family living persists with the few Bangladeshis who have grown up in Cardiff or elsewhere in Britain .
24 Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things .
25 A recent prospective study of high grade gastric lymphoma found that survival was similar in patients who underwent complete , incomplete , or no surgical therapy before chemotherapy and that the prognostic factors predicting survival were similar to those in patients with nodal lymphoma treated with the same chemotherapy regimen .
26 But that is all we are told and the relative weight given to the many relevant considerations , both favourable and unfavourable , is not disclosed .
27 In another experiment reported in the same article , Kleiman observed the interference effects in a slightly different word-processing task .
28 A trade union to my mind stands in the same position .
29 The couple 's children , Simon , 12 , and Christopher , 8 , were found dead in Gomes 's Volvo car parked near the same housing estate five hours later .
30 ‘ In applying national law , whether the provisions in question were adopted before or after the directive , the national court called upon to interpret it is required to do so , as far as possible , in the light of the wording and the purpose of the directive in order to achieve the result pursued by the latter and thereby comply with the third paragraph of Article 189 of the Treaty . ’
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