Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Etude retrouvée that he also plays is one that the composer did not use in the final set ; although it has the same title and key as Pour les arpèges composés , it is otherwise quite different and a splendid piece which pianists will look forward to seeing in print .
2 Attempting to copy a decorative technique can confirm or disprove that it produces the same appearance and microstructure observed on the original item .
3 The republics failed , however , to reach agreement on a council for railway transport ( Ukraine objecting on the grounds that it resembled the former USSR Railway Ministry ) , and also on the organization of economic links .
4 It should be carefully controlled so that it has the same character at all times , and is in perfect accord with the composer 's aesthetic objectives .
5 It is possible , therefore , to construct a sample so that it has the same distribution of characteristics as the population as a whole or , if necessary , selected portions of it .
6 We ca n't say that it occupies the same addresses in all species , because we ca n't meaningfully compare address labels across species .
7 In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed .
8 Communication is not achieved by putting something that means — one thing to us in front of someone else and hoping that it means the same thing to that other person .
9 If the same word is used in more than one place in a document , it will be assumed that it means the same thing each time it appears .
10 This apoptosis is dependent on c-Myc expression ; its extent is proportional to the level of intracellular c-Myc protein , and it requires the same regions of the c-Myc protein as are required for co-transformation and autosuppression .
11 I found the red Transit easily enough , it was the only one in the street and it had the same number plate as yesterday .
12 That 's right , er and it had the same number
13 Effie 's fear had disappeared a little under his quiet comfort , and it had the same effect on McAllister .
14 And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid .
15 It produces adverts for TV , newspapers and quality magazines , and it uses the same initial filming for all three .
16 He named his discovery ‘ eight months anxiety ’ and it gained the same status for psychologists that saying ‘ mama ’ or cutting the first tooth has for parents .
17 It is similar in type to the Simmental , though more elegantly built and the coat colour bright red rather than yellowish tan , and it shares the same origins in the old Bernese brought in by Mennonites during the eighteenth century ( see Alpine section ) .
18 The cost of educating our children is below the national recoupment figure , and that I think is good , right and proper and it reflects the many years of excellent Conservative administration that Oxfordshire has enjoyed .
19 These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) .
20 However , the appointment of a receiver must not be equated with that of a liquidator : ( i ) where a receiver is appointed the company need not go into liquidation and if it does the same person who acted as receiver will normally not be appointed liquidator ; ( ii ) liquidation is a class action designed to protect the interests of the unsecured creditors whereas , as we shall see , receivership is designed to protect the interests of the security holders who appointed the receiver and it is for this reason that a receiver can be appointed even where the company is in liquidation ; ( iii ) liquidation terminates the trading power of the company whereas this is not the case with receivership ; ( iv ) a liquidator has power to disclaim onerous property , something not possible in the case of receivership ; ( v ) a liquidator in a compulsory winding up is an officer of the court whereas this is not the case with a receiver unless appointed by the court ; ( vi ) lastly , it is easier to obtain recognition of liquidation as opposed to receivership in proceedings in foreign courts .
21 The cases perhaps support the principle that an alternative remedy will oust judicial jurisdiction if it performs the same function as the available judicial remedy ; but if it performs a different function , the court will have a discretion to refuse a remedy .
22 taking it cos it did the same thing .
23 I 'll have a look and see if it 's the same publishers , cos it looks the same kind of format , but then again it probably would be cos it 's aimed at the same market
24 It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size .
25 This is not the most familiar approach to quantum theory , but it gives the same results as other methods .
26 It is less ritualized than it was a hundred years ago , but it serves the same purpose of recognizing the event .
27 But it works the same way as ordinary language .
28 Salesman : ‘ sorry , guv , you 'll have to take a black Datsun because it does the same job , and is cheaper ! ’
29 The directors have chosen ABC first before several other companies not because it offered the most money , but because it is the organisation most in tune with Name 's philosophy , shares its commitment to growing the business and is most able to deliver ;
30 The stored or potential energy in a raised weight can be used , for instance , to drive the mechanism of a grandfather clock though in most clocks a spring is usually more convenient , if only because it stores the same amount of energy which ever way up it is .
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