Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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1 | We found that for the same journey in the same conditions , our average mpg shot up to 52 . |
2 | Outside the Company Office , Charles was given a walking stick and marched up and down the stone courtyard with other officers between the granary in which the platoons were barracked and long low buildings nearby , previously the administrative block and now being used for the same purpose in military terms . |
3 | For instance , in 1858 , Philpotts Mill nearby , was being run by Grist and Tabram for the manufacture of flock and shoddy , and William Grist was running Merrets Mill for the same purpose in 1863 . |
4 | For instance , thirteen out of every fourteen jade axes from the British Isles were made of jadeite , and this was the predominant material used for the same purpose in France and Germany . |
5 | Given that different users may have different perspectives on the same subject , it is clear that different indexing languages and systems may be appropriate for different subjects and environments , and even for the same subject in a different environment . |
6 | Earlier in the month 806 Squadron 's three remaining serviceable Fulmars had been flown from Malta to Egypt via El Adem , each aircraft carrying three aircrew ; the ground party sailed for the same destination in a destroyer . |
7 | Sales for the three months ending April were 1.6 per cent more than those for the same quarter in 1992 . |
8 | For the same village in which the cricket club flourished , the parish council records ( which date from 1894 , the year of the Act which established such bodies ) make fascinating reading — receipts for the ‘ Poor Lands Charity ’ were £76.2.8½d ( mainly from renting of parish land ) , outgoings rather less , leaving a balance in hand at year end of £1.12.5d . |
9 | On informal testing each child ignored a toy presented in the half-field contralateral to the removed hemisphere , but promptly reached for the same toy in the ipsilateral half-field . |
10 | It is challenging for the same leadership in applications software . |
11 | It is quite obvious that if all of you are going for the same niche in the marketplace , as is happening increasingly at present , then it will be a highly competitive situation where you will have to rely even more than usual on the superiority of your own skills or technology to bring you through . |
12 | Indeed , he had , in fact , smashed one of their violins when he lost his temper for the same reason in the previous year . |
13 | Corresponding times for the same band in second take only 0.5secs or so more , and even by using third they are barely lengthened by 1sec . |
14 | There is also strong pressure for the same action in Armenia , where thousands of angry demonstrators surrounded the Supreme Soviet in Yerevan all night on Monday , because they had refused to abolish the party 's leading role in the republic . |
15 | In the sixth week of 1845 it held 260 people ; for the same week in 1846 the figure was 320 and in the last year of the Famine 893 . |
16 | Between January and February 1991 , 38,200 tourists visited the country — just 20% of the figure for the same period in 1991 . |
17 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
18 | The court heard that Ironside had been banned from the roads for two years in May 1990 and for the same period in February 1991 . |
19 | The society 's bad debt charge for the first six months of this year was £29.7 million compared with £7.2 million for the same period in 1991 . |
20 | For the same period in Britain these workers made up 20 per cent of the workforce . |
21 | According to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures , the IoS averaged 374,084 for July to December against 352,335 for the same period in 1990 . |
22 | This compared with £5.2 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
23 | The current account showed a surplus of US$6,000,000 for the third quarter of 1990 , compared with a deficit of US$49,000,000 for the same period in 1989 . |
24 | India 's trade deficit in the six months to September was US$2,620 million compared with US$1,020 million for the same period in 1991 . |
25 | That compares with just 6,000 for the same period in 1991 . |
26 | More than 77,000 people have visited the exhibition to find out for themselves already this year — that 's almost 28,000 more than for the same period in 1991 ! |
27 | Fats are a major source of energy in the diet , and provide twice as many calories as protein or carbohydrates for the same amount in weight . |
28 | That figure may slightly nonplus a reader nurtured in these Caledonian climes ; and his bewilderment will not be lessened when he discovers that £600 was the annual rent charged for the same accommodation in 1912 . |
29 | Markham , Ontario-based Geac Computer Corp — which has been promising an acquisition a month over the next 12 months , got two under its belt for the same month in May : it has bought the UK end of struggling MAI Systems Corp , MAI ( UK ) Ltd , and has also picked up Tekserv Computer Services Ltd . |
30 | The appeals study comprised a random sample of one in ten ( 1,286 ) appeals determined in England and Wales in 1982 , and an analysis of appeals during the same year in the twelve sample districts . |