Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | It has always had about the same amount of appeal to me as sheep 's eyes . |
2 | Sound symbolism is not just a matter of a certain number of words containing certain sounds happening also to fall into the same semantic area . |
3 | Since the insertion of the dielectric increased the surface charge density on the plates by a factor with the voltage remaining unchanged , we may conclude that the capacitance has also increased by the same factor , yielding |
4 | And the rate of deaths , the number per one thousand live births , has also dropped over the same period , from 2.30 in 1988 to 1.44 in 1991 . |
5 | If correct — and Samuel says a second Soviet team has independently arrived at the same figure — it lowers the previous estimate by only one per cent . |
6 | Indeed , in Europe , the 1992 programme has tried to eliminate obstacles to certain types of collaborative agreements between firms , and official EC rhetoric has frequently dwelt on the many potential advantages that collaborative ventures between European firms may bring . |
7 | One has simply to glance at the few fragments of these Galatica ( 745 Jacoby ) — all quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium — to be persuaded that the author of the Galatica is a younger namesake of the great Eratosthenes — perhaps a descendant who noticed the lacunae in the geography of his predecessor . |
8 | ( Although it was as long ago as 1884 that Marx wrote of the shift from worker as producer to worker as consumer , the degree of expendability of goods and their constant replacement by better and newer models has markedly increased during the latter half of this century . ) |
9 | Third , downward mobility from positions in the service class to other class positions has steadily decreased over the same time span ( A. H. Halsey , A. F. Heath and John Ridge , Origins and Destinations , Oxford University Press , 1980 ) . |
10 | Directional planning involves identifying barriers and potentials and choosing a course in order to overcome the former and make best use of the latter . |
11 | TULFARRIS : Consistent last season but this term has saved best running for the all weather tracks . |
12 | I told her that oiling was not our job and that management was always trying to make us do more work for the same pay . |
13 | Put both answers on the same postcard and send it to : Sharp answer , Liverpool Echo Sports Desk , PO Box 48 , Old Hall Street , L69 3EB . |
14 | Most of this amount was in fact credits hitherto allocated to the former Soviet Union which had now been unblocked . |
15 | If going to bed , eating and hairwashing always happen in the same way , she accepts them with little or no fuss . |
16 | ESs often run on the same computers that run programs written in FORTRAN or BASIC . |
17 | A panel made up of a small group of SCOTVEC 's senior committee members was brought together to sift through the many college 's nominees . |
18 | Claudia felt as if she were running hard to remain in the same place . |
19 | You pedal harder to stay in the same place . ’ |
20 | The public were advised that the ward would be ready to receive on Saturday August 13th , and that ‘ medical gentlemen would be ready to give their advice to all such out-patients as shall come properly recommended on the same day ’ . |
21 | According to an experiment carried out in 1897 , light always travels at the same constant velocity . |
22 | Some program upgrades do truly behave in the same way as their predecessors but this is the exception rather than the rule ! |
23 | I 've only got to bloody si , I 've only got about the same . |
24 | At the time Rachel herself had still been doing her training but they had all worked at the same hospital — David as a senior house officer and Jennifer as a staff nurse on Orthopaedics . |
25 | Later when he wanted to release him he had only to go through the same motion but this time having his hand covered with a substance that would neutralize the smell . |
26 | When we first saw Mark Cottrell 's fabric wraps around his handles/lines we wondered why no-one else had ever thought of the same idea . |
27 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
28 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
29 | The Collector had independently arrived at the same conclusion by watching the slope above the melon beds where the number of spectators was beginning to increase rapidly . |
30 | I do not know how many men have since gone over the same wall , but there have been several even recently . |