Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sex for money carries the same risks as any other kind of sex . |
| 2 | Fruit juices are high in fructose , which weight for weight has the same calories as sucrose ( ordinary sugar ) . |
| 3 | The teenager who can not find a job , the young mother with no one but toddlers to talk to , the active man forced to retire because of age regulations , the person who spends day after day doing the same repetitive work — all these people , and many others , may suffer from extreme boredom . |
| 4 | Given this pattern of repeat business , and of agents who have a collection round which week after week includes the same customers , it is typical for customers to start another check when they have paid off the one before . |
| 5 | But ringing has shown that the same birds return year after year to patrol the same wintering areas , the oldest birds having done the round trip up to 30 times . |
| 6 | Often , you may find larvae of other kinds of insect sharing the same gall . |
| 7 | For example , many cases of burglary followed the same pattern . |
| 8 | The basic test for remoteness of damage remained the same until 1961 and was then changed by a Privy Council decision . |
| 9 | The two basic postulates of SR are as follows : firstly the laws of physics take the same form in all inertial frames , i.e. in all frames which are moving with constant velocity with respect to the frame of the distant galaxies ; secondly the velocity of light is a constant c . |
| 10 | ‘ Yousefi has a wife and three children who will of course suffer the same fate if the Home Secretary 's decision is to deport him . ’ |
| 11 | Even among a superb selection of hotels we do of course have a few favourites which we think are exceptional , and merit extra consideration . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | in addition , I have a Blue Ring Angel which at the time of purchase had a few white-spot-like fluffy things on the edges of his fins . |
| 14 | The proofs of purchase remain the same , of course , but the dealer is in a position to take care of installation and so forth for those of a nervous disposition . |
| 15 | Ian 's moment of glory came a few days later . |
| 16 | When the content of silver reaches a half the metal is generally referred to as electrum . |
| 17 | The process of feedback follows the same pattern of encoding , signalling and decoding . |
| 18 | He noted that the relationship of husband and wife was not one in which any presumption arose of undue influence but , after citing a passage from Story , Equity Jurisprudence , 2nd ed. ( 1892 ) , p. 955 , para. 1395 , that ‘ courts of equity examine every such transaction between husband and wife with an anxious watchfulness , and caution , and dread of undue influence , ’ he commented , 63 C.L.R. 649 , 675 : |
| 19 | However , the discovery that the speed of light appeared the same to every observer , no matter how he was moving , led to the theory of relativity — and in that one had to abandon the idea that there was a unique absolute time . |
| 20 | In the Seven Years War over 30 per cent of the Letters of Marque vessels from Bristol were lost , while a third of Bristol privateers during the American War of Independence met the same fate . |
| 21 | Furthermore , there is no general rule of law preventing a former employee canvassing or doing business with customers of his former employer . |
| 22 | As befits such a highly desirable collection , each plate is individually hand numbered and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity bearing the same number , thus establishing each plate 's place in the edition . |
| 23 | The development of what we still see as the modern corporation began with Pierre S. du Pont 's restructuring of his family company in the early twenties and continued with Alfred P. Sloan 's redesign of General Motors a few years later . |
| 24 | Whatever the age group we 're working with ( be it five year olds or fifty year olds ) the basic elements of drama remain the same : |
| 25 | First , though there have been some marginal changes , most notably in the steady trickle away from the north and west to the south and east , the main features of the regional distribution of population remain the same . |
| 26 | Further , it is assumed that units of consumers ' and producers ' surplus can be added and subtracted , i.e. a unit of surplus represents the same quantity of benefit irrespective of whether it accrues to the buyer or seller . |
| 27 | A third kind of evidence points the same way : the great collection of canon law known by the mythic name of " Pseudo-Isidore " , the substantial and , despite the inclusion of some forged papal letters , for the most part perfectly genuine residue of the western churches ' institutional life over eight centuries , was produced in the heart of Charles 's kingdom , in the province of Rheims , about 850 . |
| 28 | Nor does each type of evidence carry the same weight . |
| 29 | The 212s and threat of disenfranchisement does no more than hurry the process along . |
| 30 | Our sense of achievement lasted the few hours until we collected the kids . |