Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] in [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still the stitch continued to drop in the same area . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But it is far from certain that all the fish in every corporate shoal want to swim in the same direction . |
| 4 | The difficulty appears to me to be that there are too many people in the business seeking to compete in the same areas of demand , without any very great clarity about the sources of their own competitive advantages . |
| 5 | Auxiliary need tends to occur in the same syntactic environments as at all , ever and any , which are typically found in so-called non-assertive sentences . |
| 6 | Many insects respond to sound in the same way . |
| 7 | Whoever threw that orange and that 50p deserve to die in the same M3 pile-up as Johnny Rogan : they would n't be missed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Er I , I suppose if we 're going back something like forty , fifty years where people tended to live in the same area most of their lives , and their families in the area , people did n't move very far , they were probably born in an area , went to work in the area and died in the area . |
| 11 | Moreover , expeditions tend to congregate in a few favoured areas which provide rapid access to peaks as well as adequate water supplies and shelter from natural hazards like avalanches . |
| 12 | Miki managed to slip in a few ‘ wise words , matey . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ With the money I 'm prepared to pay you for your half of the house you could buy a more than adequate little base for yourself — and still have change left to indulge in a few luxuries . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There were two clues in the problem : first , that the letters had to appear in the same order , which helped you try out possible solutions ; second , the word " descend . |
| 17 | A day that had begun with the parade affirmation had to terminate in the same style . |
| 18 | Perhaps what the authorities need to consider in the few months available to them is just when a decision needs to be made . |