Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not be possible for the same midget ganglion cells to be optimized for both functions . |
| 2 | She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it . |
| 3 | hence a larger sample is possible for the same expenditure |
| 4 | According to government figures in the first nine months of 1991 the number of immigrants of German origin ( Aussiedler ) fell to 166,786 from 337,394 for the same period of 1990 , but the number of asylum-seekers rose from 143,826 to 169,785 . |
| 5 | Travelling by train from Gatwick Airport to London , I felt sorry for the many foreign visitors struggling to follow the announcements made over the loudspeaker . |
| 6 | High academic success did not come immediately to Roberts — he went as an undergraduate to the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ) rather than the prestigious Cal-Tech , because his high school grades were too low for the latter . |
| 7 | In spite of the decline in the number of average basic hours per week for manual workers from 46 in 1946 to 40 in 1970 , the number of average actual hours which include overtime , declined only by one hour from 47½ to 46½ during the same period . |
| 8 | Even then , you might still finish each day feeling guilty about the many chores which inevitably remain undone . |
| 9 | The total was 109,373 compared with 101,107 for the same period last year , said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 10 | Although the analysis of variance for the recoded risk information is slightly different from that for the all the potential risks it is clear from Figure 7.3 that with the exception of the medium risk exemplars the general pattern of results is very similar to that shown in Figure 7.2 . |
| 11 | This would require that for the same amount of light energy ( measured incident solar radiation has not varied by more than 0.5% since the beginning of the twentieth century ) more carbon is fixed per unit chlorophyll ( the quantum yield has changed ) . |
| 12 | Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) . |
| 13 | Danish pig prices were stable during the latter half of June , at just under 102p/kg , but started dropping about 1p/kg a week from the beginning of July . |
| 14 | Figure 7.3 illustrates this for the same capacitor as that in Figure 7.2 . |
| 15 | Figure 7.3 illustrates this for the same capacitor as that in Figure 7.2 . |
| 16 | While there are also a number of texts that claim to be fabliaux but which are not now considered to belong to the genre , the common characteristics of the type ( described below ) are sufficiently clear for the same number of texts again to be identified with and added to the self-proclaimed fabliaux . |
| 17 | s s several decades apart , had broken this about the same place you see . |
| 18 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 19 | and of course , you know , you er er you 'll get hold of all this as the more we do erm but you lost your way on the diagram by giving him too much I think and , and er the referrals you sort of lost at one point but you come back and reclaimed it did n't you ? |
| 20 | Of course they could read the monthly pack anyway but they do not see this as the same as actually having to insert each change in its correct place . |
| 21 | what is particularly interesting about the latter findings is that four-fifths of the socially mobile were born outside Colombia . |
| 22 | The resulting set of lists — which are , in effect , indexes — is shown in Fig. 8.2 for the same records in a data file that have already been shown in Fig.8.1 . |
| 23 | When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there . |
| 24 | Chris Laidlaw , the All Black halfback , was another about the same time who , in fact , teamed with Mains ' brother Rick as the inside backs in an outstanding school team . |
| 25 | The shrew 's heart beats almost 1000 times a minute , while the elephant uses up only 30 during the same period . |
| 26 | You can do this through the many Hall and Department associations , through clubs and groups at home and abroad . |
| 27 | At the same time , if two friends were running in opposition to one another for the same office , aid to one was sure to offend the other . |
| 28 | The saving in officer time , shop steward time , and the fact that we fight one another for the same people to join our organization , would be savings great indeed . |
| 29 | It can also be likened to the world envisaged by Hassan 's ‘ new gnostics ’ , who see the future as a vast network of information systems produced , as Brooke-Rose points out , by the few for the many ( see section 2.1 above ) . |
| 30 | Half of the latter was sent each year direct to the abbey at Battle , the rest consumed on the manor . |