Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [art] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 2 | The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously . |
| 3 | However , it can be understood as recommending that one live in such ; way that the various aspects of one 's being are given the same degree of power as they have of innate authority . |
| 4 | Do n't confuse this with the time-up bell , especially when many areas are in close proximity and all are using the same type of bell . |
| 5 | The newspaper coverage may have contributed to bringing the crime into the public domain , but essentially the press and the police are using the same repertoire of scripts . |
| 6 | Now there are less than 30,000 and those 30,000 are producing the same amount of milk as the higher number did previously . |
| 7 | We gladly accept all these rightful strictures and if we are to enjoy the same success with councils we have to accept their bye-laws , too . |
| 8 | It would almost certainly have been given the same support by the full House had it not been attached to a Bill to reform obscenity law , with which it had no clear or logical connection . |
| 9 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 10 | ‘ We have customers who have been using the same set for more than 20 years , ’ he says . |
| 11 | I 've been using the same box for several years now . |
| 12 | When Montaigne and Bacon stress the determining power of social custom they are developing the same idea of an order prior to and determining of consciousness , though now of course with the crucial difference that it is a non-teleological order , historical rather than divine , material rather than metaphysical . |
| 13 | On advertised steaming days , trains are operating every half hour between 11.00 and 17.30 with short rides in the station yard . |
| 14 | You know so make sure the units are the same and the scale is the same so you 're using the same number of squares for each one . |
| 15 | the simple straightforward statement ‘ I am cold ’ and I just wondered whether , you know , extrapolating backwards whether we 're doing the same disservice to Shakespeare . |
| 16 | And I just wondered whether , you know extrapolating backwards , whether we 're doing the same disservice to Shakespeare . |
| 17 | Whilst they are very good at what they do , they 've also been riding the same horse for a very long time and the old nag 's starting to show signs of wear . |
| 18 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |
| 19 | If the majority of patients are undergoing the same type of surgery there may even be standard care plans or checklists to guide the nurses . |
| 20 | Molecules are sharing the same body with their remote molecular cousins . |
| 21 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 23 | For now if you , as a supplier , observe a rise in the price of the good on your island of 10 per cent you can not be certain whether all other markets are experiencing the same rise on average . |
| 24 | ‘ We are experiencing the same sort of trend today as in Victorian times , when religious puritanism led to the editing out of potentially sexual and embarrassing aspects of Andersen 's tales , ’ said Professor Glyn Jones . |
| 25 | More and more doctors are facing the same sort of dilemma , as the proportion of elderly people increases in Britain and medical advances make it possible to keep alive patients who would previously have died . |
| 26 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
| 27 | The young , the young officer who came to me he said of course we 're so glad you got the number , you 're quite right it 's a car that 's been doing the same thing in Wokingham . |
| 28 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
| 29 | The ones I 've got at the moment are having a little difficulty in working things out , one does n't realise that it 's not best to try to head the ball back to the goalie when there 's a man breathing down the back of his neck , the other has n't been able to find his brain and the oldest one of the lot is always injured . |
| 30 | Clearly the two rays of light shining through the slits are having the same sort of effect on each other as the two musical notes described above ; this is called interference . |