Example sentences of "those [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the space requirements for such a file are considerably greater than those for a serial file . |
| 2 | We have n't sold any of those for a long time . |
| 3 | He asked if I had enough of those for a whole album , because he felt it would make quite an original debut , to do only music taken from other instruments , rather than something from the standard guitar repertoire . |
| 4 | DM 360 ) but the beautiful designs , including those for a Royal Palace on the Acropolis , are all reproduced in colour . |
| 5 | The differences between today 's weapons and those of the second world war are not unlike those between a 1940s gramophone and a compact-disc player , armed with a laser and stuffed with chips . |
| 6 | ‘ You sat on a low step , Modigliani , your cries were those of a stormy petrel … ‘ , wrote Ehrenburg in a poem written early in 1915 . |
| 7 | Rigden ( 1983 , p. 173 ) likens the functions and responsibilities of the C & AG ‘ to those of a primary auditor of group accounts . |
| 8 | No ecclesiastical courts — not even those of a papal judge delegate — and very few causes were safe from writs of prohibition . |
| 9 | The latter are made on a slowly-rotating machine called a cylinder-mould , and the resulting sheet closely resembles a hand-made sheet in appearance , though the deckle edges are generally more regular and less pronounced than those of a hand-made sheet . |
| 10 | Such personal comments can however not be taken up in a professional staff support group , being outside its brief and scope which differ from those of a personal therapy group . |
| 11 | Companies make statutory returns to Companies House ; their annual accounts must by law be fuller and more complicated than those of a sole trader or a partnership and must be laid out in a statutory format . |
| 12 | These low notes ( especially when played by two or three flutes in unison ) bear a striking resemblance to those of a distant trumpet and have been known to deceive even a practised ear , temporarily off its guard , into thinking that a trumpet is actually playing . |
| 13 | This leads some adherents of psychoanalysis , especially those of a Lacanian disposition , to regard sexual difference — or rather hetero/sexual difference as it should really be called — as both tragic and heroic . |
| 14 | The final benefit is that the files are much smaller than those of a corresponding bit map image . |
| 15 | The subject headings for Konrad 's show would probably look little different from those of a corresponding school syllabus . |
| 16 | In household pets , and especially in those of a nomadic disposition , access to the intermediate and paratenic hosts is difficult to prevent . |
| 17 | Cockburn reduces two contradictory processes of the local state — that it is simultaneously agent and obstacle for the national state - to those of a one-way agent . |
| 18 | All Key classified holiday homes will provide at least some of the facilities found in those of a higher classification . |
| 19 | For menials to play those of a higher rank and breeding seemed a deep violation of the principle of fixed division on which civilization rested . |
| 20 | The testes of these female mimics are vastly larger than those of a normal male . |
| 21 | He believed Sir Richard and Lady Isabella were speaking the truth , at least literally : in their eyes , and perhaps even those of a skilled physician , Allingham 's death was from natural causes , but Athelstan thought differently . |
| 22 | The chances of an unskilled manual worker 's child being a poor reader are six times greater than those of a professional worker 's child . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Only the two I spotted , ’ replied Lewis , his features as impassive as those of a professional poker-player , as Morse , with a half-grin of acknowledgement , started shuffling inconsequentially through the completed questionnaires . |
| 24 | Sufficient has already been said to suggest that Britain 's economic and financial ties with the EEC are much more complex than those of a simple trading relationship , even one which for a variety of reasons involves considerable net outflows of cash . |
| 25 | Can we really compare the exam results of a grammar school in leafy suburbia with those of a non-selective school in a deprived inner city area ? |
| 26 | The novelist should possess qualities that are similar to those of a great statesman . |
| 27 | A net release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere occurs whenever land-use changes result in ecosystems of high carbon density ( e.g. forests ) being replaced by those of a lower carbon density ( e.g. agricultural or grazing land ) . |
| 28 | In the context of the history of English studies , the Report can best be understood as an attempt to develop a strategy which would effectively link state concerns with those of a wider movement within civil society . |
| 29 | Thus , the major part of the College 's activities can be described as intermediate in level between those of a typical college of agriculture and a university department of agriculture offering degree-level courses . |
| 30 | Decorative white fringed flowers above dark green trifoliate leaves not unlike those of a broad bean . |