Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] to the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Show that this leads to the same behaviour in steady state as the extreme classical assumption . |
| 2 | Manufacturing productivity rose nearly 8% in the first quarter of 1993 compared to the same period last year . |
| 3 | Though his Bill failed , the government has found another means to the same end . |
| 4 | The former proved more likely to succumb to the same addiction . |
| 5 | The bureau , in Horsemarket , received 259 inquiries during November last year an increase of 90 compared to the same month in 1990 . |
| 6 | His more contemporary recollection , however , placed the farmhouse ‘ a quarter of a mile from Culbone Church ’ , a description which has almost always been said to identify Ash Farm , but which is perhaps more likely to refer to the former Withycombe Farm . |
| 7 | The absconding muleteer , the swindling innkeeper and the devious customs-house officer were all treated to the same display of unthwartable will . |
| 8 | And since it looks as if we 're all goin' to the same place , why do n't we take our kit to the left luggage then see if we ca n't find that canteen ? ’ |
| 9 | We all came to the same conclusion — the powers that be were determined to make an example of some poor regional company . |
| 10 | If the numbers to be compared are all written to the same number of decimal places , those pupils ignoring the decimal points will get questions " right " . |
| 11 | If this was so , then ‘ Yahweh ’ , ‘ God the Father ’ and ‘ Allah ’ would all refer to the same God , in the way that ‘ The President ’ , ‘ George Bush ’ and ‘ Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces ’ all refer to the same person . |
| 12 | The buildings will all look the same , the same companies will sell the same goods in all their shops , the people , apart from trivial physical differences and , possibly , their own languages , will all aspire to the same condition of affluence and to look the same as everybody else . |
| 13 | No , it 's got to be an alert , and if we all keep to the same story we might just get away with it . |
| 14 | She , they all go to the same school . |
| 15 | The T.V. contains hundreds of parts which all belong to the same set . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's one of the main reasons for having the newsletter in the first place , because they 're all working to the same end , but it is n't always easy to know what they 're up to , ’ says Current Account editor Brigid Cleary . |
| 17 | Style is important , but in a long document it can be very time consuming to check that the headings , subheadings and body text all conform to the same pattern . |
| 18 | So it does n't these are all the same all comes to the same amount does n't it . |
| 19 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 20 | He now wishes he had used the phrase ‘ cycles of disadvantage ’ instead , though it all comes to the same thing — when poverty is perpetuated through family patterns , generation after generation . |
| 21 | So it does n't matter which way you do it whether you get four twelfths , two sixths , or one third , they 're all the same they all comes to the same thing . |
| 22 | The public purse would not get anything ; after all , it all comes to the same thing . |
| 23 | ‘ Will he be able to go to the same school as his brothers and sisters ? ’ or ‘ Will she be able to speak like other boys and girls when she is older ? ’ |
| 24 | He was able to go to the same home for respite care , at first for two weeks in and six weeks at home , on a rota . |
| 25 | I am ashamed to admit to the same bafflement on hearing Dr Sylvia Earle — algalogist , marine biologist and self-promoter extraordinaire — extolling the virtues of a moving and storage firm in a radio advertisement . |
| 26 | But as almost all the front-running supercars are environmentally friendly these days , the two cheques are virtually certain to go to the same person . |
| 27 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 28 | Road deaths increased in the UK by six percent to 1250 in the second quarter of 1990 compared to the same period for last year . |
| 29 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It turned out we both went to the same school , ’ Vlitos says , ‘ so things got very friendly . ’ |