Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This project considers the characteristics of individuals in the same households in a study of migration between 1966 and 1970 and between 1970 and 1971 . |
| 2 | Customs manufactured before the humbucking age feature two sorts of pickup on the same guitar : a P90 by the bridge , and an Alnico by the neck — a really old-fashioned looking thing , with huge great rectangular polepieces . |
| 3 | This compares with losses of $7.8m in the same quarter of last year . |
| 4 | An underwriting deficit for the period of $4m compares with losses of $65m in the same quarter last year and $42m in the final quarter of 1992 . |
| 5 | Quietly , amid the fall-out of Saturday 's defeat of Wales by the All Blacks , the Welsh Rugby Union and the Merit Table organisation meet on Monday night to discuss the issue . |
| 6 | Faster still was the air-speed record of 1666mph set by Col Mosolov of the USSR in 1962 , the rocket-powered X-15 's speed of 4104mph in the same year , and Jacqueline Cochran 's 1964 women 's air speed record of 1429mph in a Lockhead Starfighter . |
| 7 | The succession of Muftis in the latter half of the fifteenth century , after the conquest of Constantinople ( 857/1453 ) , represents one of the most complicated problems to be met with in tracing the history of the early Muftilik , the difficulties largely arising , as one would expect , from a lack of sufficient evidence at certain crucial points in the careers of several of the Muftis . |
| 8 | Indians wrote no historical books with numerical dates and regarded personal life as one of a succession of lives of the same individual repeated infinitely often in endless time . |
| 9 | The collapse of communism in the former Eastern block and the disintegration of the former Soviet Union represent a major new challenge the governments have had to face . |
| 10 | However , the economic crisis in the wake of the collapse of trade with the former Soviet Union , leading to an estimated drop of 25-30 per cent in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1991 , had increased the urgency of attracting foreign capital . |
| 11 | This in particular ( i ) warned that it was essential that the additional demands on resources associated with reconstruction in the Middle East , unification in Germany , the economic transformation of eastern Europe and prospects for reform in the Soviet Union should be met by reductions in the absorption of saving by governments and an increase in private saving , and that an important contribution could be made by " reassessing spending on defence and subsidies " ; ( ii ) expressed concern over delays in the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations [ see this page ] ; ( iii ) welcomed the continuing commitment of eastern European countries to stabilizing and reforming their economies along market-oriented lines in spite of the added difficulties caused by the collapse of trade in the former COMECON area ; and ( iv ) also welcomed the intention of the authorities in the Soviet Union to " intensify reliance on market mechanisms and to integrate the economy into the multilateral trade and payments system " . |
| 12 | Since the blend of the wind-group is not so perfect as that of the strings , owing to the greater uniformity of tone of the latter , passages of which the texture can be resolved into its component patterns , each of which suits the individual character of some particular instrument or small group of instruments , ‘ come off ’ best on the wind . |
| 13 | Applied Biosystems turned in net profits of $900 000m for the six months ended 27 December 1991 , compared to a net loss of £5.4m in the same period in 1990 . |
| 14 | First half profit before tax at Midland Bank was £89m , compared with a loss of £71m in the same period last year . |
| 15 | Saatchi & Saatchi announced a first half profit before tax of £11.1m , compared with a loss of £32m in the same period last year . |
| 16 | Q3 profit of $0.6 compared with a loss of $21.5m in the same period last time and produced a deficit down sharply from $$53.4m to $23.1m . |
| 17 | Several international human rights and relief organisations charge that Bosnian Serbs have engaged in the systematic rape , torture and murder of civilians during the former Yugoslav republic 's 11-month-old war . |
| 18 | The draft standards were produced by specialist consultants who undertook a major programme of analysis of the many occupational roles of those involved in training and development . |
| 19 | Literary studies in action approaches the study of literature in the same way that a comparatively naive undergraduate reader approaches it : as a conglomeration of linguistic and literary forms , functions and meanings , all operating at once and all of which have somehow to be deciphered in order to gain access to the text , and explained in order to facilitate the production of adequate essays . |
| 20 | A study of redevelopment at the former steel plant was publicised by Archie Bethel , chief executive of the Lanarkshire Development Agency . |
| 21 | Héléne Cixous is an exception in this respect , and it is interesting that she becomes so by almost reversing the psychoanalytically inspired account of homosexuality as involving a fear of difference/desire of the same . |
| 22 | Also considered are purely surface syntactic constraints , as in 54 ; it is noted that ‘ indefinite tu or vous can not be used in contexts where there is a definite ‘ you ’ immediately to the left , for fear of confusion with the latter ’ ( p. 289 ) : |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Hamilton ( Mr. Robertson ) is not usually given to fanciful rhetoric , and if he studies the movement of opinion in Europe he must know that since Maastricht more and more people have begun to comment on the future of Europe in the same sort of way as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and I did before . |
| 24 | I advise the Government , however , not to take an indication of confidence as the same thing as money over the counter . |
| 25 | And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between . |
| 26 | The lithographer can draw on a regular piece of paper with the same facility that he can with a pencil or brush . |
| 27 | New sentences containing more than one piece of information from the same set could not reliably be distinguished from sentences which had been heard before . |
| 28 | I shall be bringing out a very large book on all aspects of marines in the latter half of this year , so keep an eye out for it . |
| 29 | There are many other fragments of plants in the same block , but the frond is unusually complete . |
| 30 | Stop at the other side of town on the same road , the Dublin road , I think ? ’ |