Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denmark joined the EEC for much the same reasons as the British did : she wished to ensure that she was not excluded from a large ‘ home ’ market , particularly for her agricultural products . |
| 2 | ‘ He had to pick an England team from what was left after the week-end games a fortnight ago , while I found myself with just two players at Highbury for almost the entire week . |
| 3 | Citrine , now more aware of the new world they lived in , was more willing to contemplate price increases to finance investment , but conflicting signals came from Whitehall about both the merit and the practicability of such a change . |
| 4 | But the other two main additions to the new kingdom — Slovenia and Croatia — had been under the rule of Austria or Hungary for approximately the same period of time . |
| 5 | Kevan Smith also wasted a clear opening , misses Darlington counted to their cost when the lively Preece broke clear in the 75th minute and curled a shot past the advancing Prudhoe from outside the box . |
| 6 | Perhaps a certain sensitivity on this question inspired his particularly detailed instructions to Orjonikidze on how the Georgians were to be treated ; the intelligentsia were to be offered particular concessions , and the Mensheviks to be invited to participate — ‘ avoid any mechanism copying the Russian pattern … bigger concessions to all the petty bourgeois elements ’ . |
| 7 | Leonard keeps more money than friends in a farce of fistic folly John Rodda in Las Vegas on how the battle between two greats ended as a sad stalemate . |
| 8 | A good many observers even doubted whether wars between States at approximately the same level of civilization could have any decisive result . |
| 9 | The philosophy of pragmatism flourished in the United States at roughly the same period that the social movements of Fabianism and New Liberalism emerged in Britain . |
| 10 | ‘ I went to Washington with only the clothes on my back . ’ |
| 11 | On Oct. 30 , on the other hand , a report by observers from the Paris-based International League of Human Rights claimed that " an extremely sophisticated method of fraud " had been partly responsible for the IDA getting twice as many National Assembly seats as the PPP with virtually the same share of the popular vote . |
| 12 | The polytechnics of the new binary policy were to be a key group of partners for the CNAA from roughly the beginning of the 1970s : the Assistant Director of Hatfield Polytechnic spoke of the polytechnics and the CNAA as ‘ inseparable … |
| 13 | She stepped back , massaging her wrist and looking at Hrun in much the same way that a cat watches a mousehole . |
| 14 | The issue of commodity bundling has been central to a number of celebrated competition policy cases , including those involving IBM in both the United States and Europe . |
| 15 | The study will select , on the basis of a general preliminary investigation , a number of NRLs in both the UK and US to investigate in detail . |
| 16 | Jamieson ( 1986 ) in her study of working-class mothers and daughters in urban Scotland in roughly the same period , found that young adult women living in the parental home would take on domestic work to assist their mothers routinely and extensively , in a way not replicated by their male counterparts . |
| 17 | Indeed , activation of the mGlu receptor alone can bring about LTP in both the hippocampus and in the dorsolateral septal nucleus . |
| 18 | To register to vote for example , a union citizen must have been resident in Great Britain on the qualifying date of the tenth of October or fifteenth of September for Northern Ireland in exactly the same way as British or other commonwealth citizens and citizens of other member states who wish to be candidates of the elections for the European parliament must conform to the same nomination procedures as candidates have hitherto . |
| 19 | You would never guess it , she is so modest , but she knows more than anyone else in England on how the eighteenth century reader regarded Scandinavia … . |
| 20 | And the meeting of the ACTS ' Central Council has recently had a report from its local and regional unity er committee proposing that a network of regional ecumenical teams should be established throughout Scotland to further the cooperation and joint commitment of congregations and church members in each area . |
| 21 | With a much smaller baseload of night traffic it was no longer viable to retain separate services to Scotland on both the East and West Coast routes . |
| 22 | Capt. Valentine E. M. Strasser , the 27-year-old junior officer who had become chairman of the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) after leading an April coup [ see pp. 38853-4 ; 38900 ] , made a series of changes in July to both the composition and structure of the government . |
| 23 | Although they first became noticeable around the major conurbations — for example , in the Home Counties , in Cheshire and in parts of Warwickshire — in lowland England at least the commuting networks have virtually joined up . |
| 24 | Some reports suggested a death toll as high as 150-200 in Mali and perhaps twice that number in Niger , in what was increasingly described as a separatist rebellion , although other reports suggested that in Mali at least the objective of anti-government elements was not independence for the north-east but the overthrow of the government in Bamako . |
| 25 | She liked Matilda for exactly the same reasons . |
| 26 | ‘ However , a spare transformer was being held at Hunterston for just the eventuality . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ is in a position to take steps under a programme arranged between the Canadian government and both Canadian national airlines for the provision of return air transportation to Canada for both the child and an accompanying adult . |
| 28 | ‘ And Paddy with only the one leg tae , ’ the woman said . |
| 29 | We had taken a taxi to the Sharia el-Azhar from where the buses depart . |
| 30 | These issues have been debated by American feminists like Linda Nicholson , Nancy Fraser , Christine di Stefano in much the same terms already , and there have been special issues of the journals Feminist Studies and Signs on the topic . |