Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 2 | Anemones tend to dribble a little water from their centres if you press them . |
| 3 | The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents . |
| 4 | These designs involve slipping the same needle for between two and four rows . |
| 5 | For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) . |
| 6 | Some manufacturers have overcome the latter factor by placing the batteries in a compartment separate from the control box ( eg Fisher 1266-X and C-Scope CS4ZX ) . |
| 7 | The so-called modern values bring about a convergence of culture through improved mass communications , the elites of Third World countries come to share the same culture as those in the industrialised world . |
| 8 | Many people confronted with a crash have done the same thing . |
| 9 | Given the fundamental importance of demography for any assessment of a pre-industrial economy , it is not surprising that economic historians have pressed the surveys into service ( historians of medieval England have done the same sort of thing with Domesday Book ) as sources of demographic data . |
| 10 | By comparable mechanisms , an animal ( or human ) will find a task easier to learn if others of the same type have learned the same task before . |
| 11 | So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner . |
| 12 | Adjectives seem to need the same rule , to produce stress patterns such |
| 13 | Composers have followed the same pattern . ) |
| 14 | Most importantly , the people who will have to implement the community care reforms seem to share the same vision and , despite certain reservations , the same enthusiasm . |
| 15 | Kate and Diane have booked the same venue with its easy access just minutes off the M5 motorway and superb views across the Somerset countryside . |
| 16 | Later writers have voiced the same view . |
| 17 | W. Lancaster 's 13/0 stainless steel cutlery : some customers have used the same set for 20 years |
| 18 | same sort of direction continue to do the same sort of things . |
| 19 | He invited people to sign a declaration : ‘ I , the undersigned , promise to learn ( it ) if it appears that 10 million people have given the same promise . ’ |
| 20 | But when I met her and shook her hand I had a feeling which is hard to explain — other people have had the same experience when meeting this lady . |
| 21 | She stared , then said impatiently : 'Th 've got no more sense than my left shoe ! |
| 22 | There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country . |
| 23 | All teachers have had the same training , but styles and personalities can differ greatly . |
| 24 | Those treaties have followed the same course . |
| 25 | Other girls have had the same idea , but so far he 's still Mystery Miguel . ’ |
| 26 | In each lexical domain , children appear to make the same assumption : newly acquired words contrast with those already known . |
| 27 | We will briefly consider how choice theorists have tackled the latter problem before examining the defects of the main thrust of this liberal interpretation of contractual obligations . |
| 28 | We advertised , in fact , for people who wanted to smoking but could do with a little help , because I really do think that women do need a little help , a bit of support to do this . |
| 29 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 30 | Merrel have introduced an all leather boot designed for British conditions and are calling it the Cumbria . |