Example sentences of "[noun] occur [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transitional stages in the evolution of definite cross-veins may also be observed in wings of the more specialized Palaeodictyoptera and among living Orthoptera , where both irregular and definite cross-veins occur in the same wing . |
| 2 | In class structure grammar ( see under grammar ) , most clauses have only one subject , but there are occasions where two subjects occur in the same clause . |
| 3 | As early as 1952 ( the first British atomic test occurred in the same year ) the defence planners produced a new and detailed analysis — the " Global Strategy Paper " . |
| 4 | In the context of the May 1990 preliminary talks between the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the government [ see p. 37440 ] , two other notable encounters between the nationalist movement and the white establishment occurred in the same month : ( i ) on May 23 the ANC met liberal representatives of the business community in Johannesburg , during which ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela , in what was seen as an attempt to reassure investors , declared that the ANC did not have a blueprint for nationalization ; at the conclusion of the conference , with the former chairman of the company Anglo American , Gavin Relly , he emphasized the need to abolish institutionalized inequalities and to redistribute resources equally ; and ( ii ) on May 24 fighters from the ANC 's armed wing and members of the ANC national executive committee ( NEC ) met with retired and serving officers of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , military conscripts and , among others , members of the End Conscription Campaign at a conference in Lusaka , the Zambian capital ; these discussions included the structure and role of a post-apartheid defence force . |
| 5 | It is ironic that this prohibition occurred at the same time as several well-designed research studies were clearly demonstrating the efficacy of ECT . |
| 6 | If this is not diagnosed and recurrences occur at the same site , the patient will be labelled as a refractory case of non-specific urethritis and may be subjected to prolonged courses of antibiotic treatment , which , of course , will have no effect on the course of the disease . |
| 7 | As the vast majority of applications occur in the same peak period , should not people try to spread them so that there is not the same concentration ? |
| 8 | Parallel procedural changes occurred at the same time in the Senate , but other factors were at work there too . |
| 9 | Another interpretation is that metamorphism occurred at the same time , or post-dated thrusting , and that the frictional heating produced during thrusting contributed to the partial melting of the crust and the intrusion of granitic rocks . |
| 10 | In this way , the polyps synchronise the release of their sexual cells so precisely that the event occurs at the same hour on a particular night each year , turning the sea into a multi-coloured reproductive soup . |
| 11 | Secondly , ordinal similarity , a relation referring to the degree in which characters in two strings occur in the same order . |
| 12 | In parts of Britain , two , or even all three , of these types of suitable positions occur in the same area . |
| 13 | Of course , it is possible for more than one disturbance to occur at the same time so that the cyclical variations generated , although inherently damped , may be quite large . |
| 14 | On weekdays , a further peak occurred in the half hour before noon , but demand then dropped over the lunchtime period until 13.00 , when it started to climb once more , reaching a peak at 14.15–14.30 , after which it declined gradually until the end of the day . |
| 15 | The attempt to grasp this difference and to put it into words is a recurrent theme of Formen , especially because the secondary theme is to understand the contradiction which arises when the two opposed conceptions of man occur in the same society in periods of transition . |
| 16 | — yet one is urged to look to common parent ? why should two of the most closely allied species occur in the same country ? ’ |
| 17 | The Edinburgh team believes the reaction that leads to cot death is triggered when a combination of factors occur at the same time . |