Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] to the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 2 | Skinner ( 1948 ) states that " verbal behaviour is emitted behaviour which is reinforced by a listener and develops according to the same principles as other operant behaviour . |
| 3 | Then an appendix , a disc list , gives every known issue and reissue according to the same numbering , a sensible practice . |
| 4 | If this is the case , then means and ends amount to the same thing since the same moral demands apply to both in the quest for Truth . |
| 5 | They dug up an old catalogue reference to it : it seems to be that honest banking practice and churchgoing come to the same thing ungodly Marxism leads to phoney exchange rates . ’ |
| 6 | On the other hand , it did not necessarily contradict the public service principles , especially as the new Act of Parliament obliged ITV to ‘ inform , educate and entertain' according to the same standards . |
| 7 | The reception area , restaurant and bar are furnished and decorated to conform to the same image , conveying an image of discreet , old-fashioned comfort and luxury . |
| 8 | While Kittay 's theory has the advantage that it allows metaphor to be seen as operating according to the same basic principles regardless of the size of the discursive unit in question , Brooke-Rose 's own examination of the mechanisms of the verb metaphor suggest a view that minimizes dependence on an implicit ‘ proper ’ term outside the text and emphasizes the metaphoric interactions between the terms themselves . |