Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This comes with one or more switches on the same ‘ plate ’ , operating different lights . |
| 2 | Confusion is not always avoided : the two wheels here are probably near and far wheels of a two-wheeled chariot , but in some cases rather the two near wheels of a four-wheeled cart . |
| 3 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
| 4 | So the sharing 's a bit like doing the times only the other way round is n't it like doing it backwards . |
| 5 | Each couple was like a parody of the other , their attitudes much the same . |
| 6 | It 's still gon na take six times eight , but this time the six is the hours so the eight will be women . |
| 7 | We 've developed a new design to make your selection of CompuAdd PC systems , peripherals and accessories all the easier . |
| 8 | Everyone I spoke to was against the widening of the roads especially the steep pass down into Kinlochewe . |
| 9 | Her letters , like his own comment in 1913 on his letters to her , suggest that at eighteen he had begun for her eyes alone the long process of self-discovery with assured confidence of her support . |
| 10 | Swans flying down from Siberia to Britain travel in family parties so the young cygnets compile such maps as they follow their parents . |
| 11 | I slipped an old Eurythmics tape into the cassette deck I have installed where Armstrong 's meter used to be and adjusted the speakers so the full effect came in the front rather than the back . |
| 12 | Though hampered for lack of space ( the Guardian gives its readers much the shortest shrift in this respect ) , Selvey provides a lively account , brimming with inside knowledge . |
| 13 | the introduction of new semi-automatic machines … the increasing use of unskilled and semi-skilled labour in trades hitherto the exclusive preserve of the skilled man … the adaptation of a rudimentary system of standardised and interchangeable parts … the predominance of factory over the workshop as the unit of production … the introduction of aspects of Taylorism , particularly the premium-bonus system ’ . |
| 14 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
| 15 | Technical disturbances arising from the interaction between communism and the novel form are consequently in Nizan 's eyes merely the logical outcome of the communist writer 's refusal to acquiesce to what are perceived as the oppressive structures of bourgeois politics , ethics and culture . |
| 16 | However this by definition means only accepting candidates exactly the same length , which we have already established is most likely not going to be possible , so allowing candidates with the same reduced zonal coding is more realistic ( eg. for code ‘ muuu ’ all candidates will , rill , roll , wool , awl , oval and oral would be kept ) . |
| 17 | In France there is no HLCA incentive to acquire enlarged farm units once the maximum qualifying number of livestock ( 30/40 cows ; or 200/267 sheep ) is exceeded . |
| 18 | As early as the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. the Greek philosophers and historians had shown a keen interest in foreign doctrines and customs and had been inclined to recognize some value in them . |
| 19 | To program a computer to understand a discourse , Artificial Intelligence researchers need to reproduce this process , and to give computers both the necessary language knowledge , and the necessary schemata . |
| 20 | Two centuries later the normal embalming period was 70 days . |
| 21 | Six months later the Great War had broken out and she had found a new cause . |
| 22 | Eleven months later the new Secretary of State said that he was equally committed to a very substantial expansion in student numbers , and stated that the government 's plans were for an increase of 50,000 by 1993 . |
| 23 | Two months later the first of the workmen moved in . |
| 24 | His suggestion was welcomed , and two months later the six foreign ministers passed it on to experts for their consideration . |
| 25 | Ten months later the PJC-1 was test-flown — accounting for the odd designation . |
| 26 | The occasion became one of national self-assertion and two months later the whole edifice of Eastern European solidarity was undermined when Hungary allowed East German citizens to exit to Austria via its territory . |
| 27 | A few months later the decyphering organisation which had existed for not far short of two centuries also disappeared . |
| 28 | A few months later the same man , with his daughter , met Russell at a petrol station . |
| 29 | Three months later the three older children were told they could go to Britain . |
| 30 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |