Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [det] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether local government would be allowed to go through the same process is difficult to say . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the British Red Cross has been contacted by many people across the region offering accommdation and help if more wounded from the former Yugoslavia are brought here in future . |
| 3 | The Foreign Office says although the concern of independent UK-based groups for the welfare of those trapped in the former Yugoslavia is understandable , they strongly advise against unofficial missions . |
| 4 | Nelson argues that the failure of other reviewers to come to the same conclusion was because they used vague definitions of depression and failed to take into account the severity of the disorder . |
| 5 | However , the demand for the relevant , the practical , and the vocational that was part of the raison d'être of the GCSE has at the same time been answered in a different way , which may in the end prove embarrassing to the DES and the SEC , and may seem to promise yet another shift of power . |
| 6 | But — with exceptions of course — it has at the same time been unable or unwilling to devote enough time and effort to understanding and pursing financial and accounting matters , perhaps because these often lack the immediate and general glamour of other aspects of policies . |
| 7 | The celebrations turned violent as property belonging to people connected with the former regime was attacked and looted by the crowds , and rioting broke out in which 27 people were killed . |
| 8 | This would explain why children of the same genetics , age and sex , living in the same house are more likely to both contract the illness than any of the other combinations studied . |
| 9 | Clutton-Brock ( 1974 ) , for example , using finer instruments and methods than the earlier work , and applying it to species contrasts , was able to show that differences between two colobus species living in the same forest were functions of their feeding ecology . |
| 10 | Either that report or a summary of it or a basic valuation prepared from the same materials is used by the building society for the purposes of section 13 . |
| 11 | The unusual nature of these counter-examples indicates that they are indeed the exceptions which prove the rule , and it is normally reasonable to assume that coins made from the same die were produced at the same time and place . |
| 12 | But equally , the buried incestuous temptation invoked by the seductive mother may result in the same man being profoundly moved and sexually attracted to distressed women for whom he has no emotional responsibility . |
| 13 | Why so many of the other directors chose to sell at the same time is not known to me . |
| 14 | The water car transferred at the same time was not numbered . |
| 15 | It is not yet clear how many of the almost 80 other prisoners freed at the same time were held for political reasons . |
| 16 | The state of siege imposed at the same time was , however , extended by 30 days by a vote of the legislative assembly on Feb. 8 . |
| 17 | In three months the whole area embraced by the several reports was closely examined and this potential danger to shipping erased from the charts . |
| 18 | Another phrase that 's often used for the same thing is your statutory rights . |
| 19 | Another stock to advance for the same reasons was General Cinema , owner of Harcourt Brace . |
| 20 | pBLcat2 and wild type oligo I constructs from the same experiments are shown for direct comparison . |
| 21 | The kinetic energy lost by a body of mass m rising through the same distance is remarkably similar : . |
| 22 | The manager must be able to act decisively by , for example , bringing in more lower paid staff to assist in mundane areas thus increasing productivity when compared with the same work being done at more senior level . |
| 23 | She sent the first correct solution selected and knew that the teams this century who appeared in FA Cup finals and were relegated in the same season were Brighton ( 1983 ) , Leicester ( 1969 ) , Manchester City ( 1926 ) and Chelsea ( 1915 ) |
| 24 | In itself , the occurrence of both infinitive forms in the same context is in flagrant contradiction with the idea of meaningless contextual variation . |
| 25 | Different narratives based on the same events were juxtaposed and compared . |
| 26 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 27 | The similarities between things called by the same name are indefinite and fluctuating ; one tries to pin terms down by definition , so that they can be used for strict inference , but Wittgenstein showed that in the vocabulary of natural languages the similarities are ‘ family resemblances ’ , by which A may be like B in one respect and B like C in another , but A like C in neither , so that it is useless to look for common characteristics by which to define the word which names them all . |
| 28 | The fact that vocational architecture students are taught in the same department is a particularly positive aspect because it results in expertise in all fields of building design being readily available to the historian . |
| 29 | Foremost amongst the measures proposed in the latter instance was increased Aboriginal access to land , an issue upon which little progress had been made — with the possible exception of the sparsely populated Northern Territory — and which remained at the heart of much Aboriginal discontent . |
| 30 | One popular religious writer who thinks that they believe in the same god is John Hick . |