Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless both parties successfully anticipate inflation by fixing the terms of loans in such a way as to compensate for inflation , the lenders find that the real value of their loans declines , and the borrowers find that the real value of their debts declines to the same extent . |
| 2 | Local authorities must have their accounts vetted in the same way , but district auditors — appointed by central government — have additional functions . |
| 3 | And millions of customers with other banks who have their accounts processed through the same system could also be hit . |
| 4 | And all officers and ministers whatsoever shall serve their Majestyes and their successors according to the same in all times to come … |
| 5 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
| 6 | The spins of the two protons are measured along axes which for each proton on each occasion are selected at random from the possible choices unc Sometimes both protons have their spins measured in the same directions ( both o , say ) , sometimes they are in different directions ( one A one y , say ) . |
| 7 | Do you find that , as Adrienne Rich wrote of Marie Curie , ‘ her wounds came from the same source as her power ? ’ |
| 8 | And its aims travel in the same direction , albeit by a slightly different strategic route . |
| 9 | The result is often cannibalism , especially in chickens and turkeys , which are debeaked and often have their toes cut by the same hot-knife machine as a preventative . |
| 10 | It seems to me that music television , like sports programming , mainly assumes that its audiences live in the same world and share the same expertise . |
| 11 | It is obvious enough that a neocortex would be useless if all its neurons responded to the same or strongly similar features , so decorrelation is useful for this purpose , but it also confers another great advantage . |
| 12 | ( This would be roughly analogous to claiming that the two different posts in an organization are really the same because their occupants report to the same superior . ) |
| 13 | The women in this book fall essentially into two groups — those who come directly from certain peasant societies of India , Pakistan and Bangladesh and those whose families migrated from the same peasant backgrounds first to East Africa and then to Britain . |
| 14 | The key point , to repeat it , is that a parasite whose genes aspire to the same destiny as the genes of its host shares all the interests of its host and will eventually cease to act parasitically . |
| 15 | At maternal ages 25–29 , infants with the best survival prospects were those whose fathers belonged to the same age group as the mothers . |
| 16 | Every one of his books points to the same thing — unless we apply inhibition in our lives we will never be able to use intelligence in the way it was designed — to assist fulfilment . |
| 17 | If the price goes up 9% and his costs stay about the same maybe up 5% or so , er his actual bottom line is his income at the end of the year will in fact increase by about 60% . |
| 18 | But if her words had any effect on him , he had n't revealed it ; instead he had continued to avoid her glance , riding at her side with his features frozen in the same expressionless mask . |
| 19 | his jaws rotate with the same motion |
| 20 | Paternal authority was basic to the Zuwaya image , for loyalties depended on ancient domesticities : it was because your ancestors and his ancestors lived in the same household , under the same authority , that you owed another loyalty ( unless , as happened , you were in dispute with him , in which case those old fraternities marked the division between the two of you ) . |
| 21 | His results pointed to the latter strategy . |
| 22 | I find the best ideas come from when you 're not actually touching the guitar , otherwise your fingers fall into the same positions and you get stuck in ruts . |
| 23 | We speak variant patois of Shakespeare and Norman Mailer , our institutions spring from the same instincts and traditions , and we share the same heritage of law and custom , philosophy and pragmatic Weltanschauung … starting from similar premises in the same intellectual tradition , we recognize common allusions , share many common prejudices , and can commune on a basis of confidence . |
| 24 | And it 's the trend which , in addition to its desire to see our juniors competing on the same surfaces as their international counterparts , has seen our own LTA encourage the court manufacturers in this country towards the cushioned acrylic type of tennis courts . |
| 25 | Where all your flowers come from the same point . |