Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] in the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These I do not repeat here , but my version of Boulestin 's sweet tomato conserve , which I had intended to include in the same book and which is indeed indexed as appearing in it , somehow got away . |
| 2 | But it is far from certain that all the fish in every corporate shoal want to swim in the same direction . |
| 3 | As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes . |
| 4 | The subframes are designed to deform in the same manner as the robust bodyshell and thereby contribute to this energy absorption . |
| 5 | However , the one thing that instantly distinguished PageMaker from the rest was the fact that it had been designed to work in the same way as a traditional paste-up table . |
| 6 | Her father has to sleep in the same room since he has to attend to her during the night when she may need a bed pan up to four times . |
| 7 | How terrible to adore like this so that you want to lie in the same grave and share nothing with the world but live above it like Zeus and Hera . |
| 8 | This can be reduced by diversifying , in particular to achieve a mix of assets whose values would not all be expected to move in the same direction at once . |
| 9 | Perhaps because horses are relatively large , and therefore hard to ignore , people tend to behave in the same way in the presence of a horse . |
| 10 | It would be easier to convince senior managers that Unix is a viable platform if all systems were seen to work in the same way , regardless of what was underneath . |
| 11 | He too had been influenced by Lyell , and as early as 1855 had published a paper commenting on the fact that new species always seemed to appear in the same neighbourhood as a closely related existing species . |
| 12 | Or those voracious fish-eaters , otters , have been seen to play in the same pool as the salmon , fish who would normally flee from the presence of such a competent and fearsome predator . |
| 13 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 14 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 15 | " You never seem to appear in the same gown twice running . |
| 16 | Fundamentally however , all objects such as ‘ chapters ’ , ‘ sections ’ , ‘ entries ’ , ‘ acts ’ and ‘ scenes ’ , ‘ cantos ’ etc. seem to behave in the same way : they are incomplete in themselves , and often nest hierarchically . |
| 17 | Hunt , who had occasionally had to sleep in the same bed as his father , found nothing alarming in this until Minton , who had put his arm around the younger man , began moving it slowly down his chest . |
| 18 | Moreover the provisions of section 2(1) ( a ) also seem to point in the same direction . |
| 19 | Well okay this morning what I 'd like to do in the half hour or so that we 've got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon we 'll look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then we 'll move on to the skills of design , the preparation skills . |
| 20 | Sure , there are differences , they 've got this one-eyed machine and so on , but basically it 's the same thing , and we even tell them it 's going to end in the same way with the raft capsizing . |
| 21 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |
| 22 | Dr Ramey also explains that when couples are together for some time their hormone levels often begin to co-ordinate in the same way , so regular sex — say on Saturday nights — mean you tune into each other 's hormone levels . |
| 23 | It is true that the shareholders would make an impact if they were to agree to vote in the same way , but this will usually involve the costs of educating and obtaining the co-operation of other shareholders being borne by individual activist members , and these are likely to outweigh the benefits that will be captured by them , since any increase in the value of the company attributable to intervention will be distributed among the shareholders as a whole . |
| 24 | But the overlap in dates — Tolkien 's book began to appear in the same year as Lucky Jim — is fortuitous , not significant , and the overlap in time was not a collision of rival forces , rather the side-by-side running of parallel tracks . |
| 25 | Although these insects ' hearing organs are rather like our eardrums , they do not necessarily respond to sound in the same way . |
| 26 | ‘ I have three children and even though I do not have a job at present , they will never have to suffer in the same way as the children of Somalia . ’ |
| 27 | Tamas had attempted to stand in the same constituency in the 1985 general election , but had been thwarted by what he had alleged to be communist manipulation of the candidate selection process [ see p. 33812-13 ] . |
| 28 | Again , according to Escoffier himself a Paris factory , the Maison Fontaine took up the canned tomato industry , the whole department of the Vaucluse started to specialise in the same business , and it was only after the events recorded by him that Italy and America introduced their own versions of canned tomatoes . |
| 29 | Less than an hour later they were back in number twenty-six , and she was so tired that she was past worrying about having to sleep in the same room but , confronted by the reality of the limited space , two small beds and a very large , powerful man , her nervous fears came back like a river in full spate . |
| 30 | For it to be plausible , continual adaptation must be necessary for the maintenance of the life history , just as the Red Queen had to keep running to stay in the same place . |