Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The two objectives are designed to achieve the same end .
2 Export in particular has had a good year and during 1991 we are forecast to deliver an all time record tonnage of malt to 40 customers in 33 countries .
3 Somehow local authorities are expected to perform the same range of duties more cheaply .
4 AutoDesk Inc 's multimedia revenues , which grew by 76% last year , are expected to duplicate the same success this year , president and chief executive Carol Bartz told the Hambrecht & Quist technology conference .
5 soc : And I suppose you 'd like more of the same so you can go on pinpointing variation and replicate the studies which have been done to show the same thing in different places , or maybe to include a few more explanatory variables in your statistical model ?
6 In particular the fearful and horrifying episodes of life with their accompanying pain are played back so that time after time we are made to suffer the same agony that we felt as a child when we had the original experience .
7 Oh you 're bound to get a few bum ones are n't you .
8 Well you 're meant to go the same way as the clock goes and that means it 's you next .
9 Often the two terms are used to mean the same thing .
10 Without it , even higher investment would have been needed to achieve the same growth of demand .
11 Malaysia has the world 's biggest tin deposits , while the South Jianxi and Guangdong provinces of China are rumoured to have the most tungsten .
12 It occurred to National Certificate staff that instead of programming say twenty subject assessors to different centres all over the country on a particular day , all twenty could be programmed to visit the same centre on the same day .
13 Members of the RIBA may be expected to follow the same pattern after 1992 .
14 A cut in taxes that raised residents ' incomes by the same amount as the lump-sum grant would be expected to produce the same amount as the lump-sum grant .
15 For example , brothers and sisters who differ in age share genes to the same extent as dizygotic twins , and so in a purely genetic disease would be expected to have the same concordance rates — but they do not .
16 For instance , sibling nodes ( nodes which have some hierarchical relation to the same node ) might be expected to have the same pattern of ‘ target node names ’ .
17 For example , it might seem curious that a member of the RICS could be a director of a commercial company offering a range of services to the public , yet not be permitted to occupy the same position in a company offering the very skill for which he has been trained .
18 However , the formation of unisons is not always satisfactory or possible ( for example , in Example 140 above each voice could hardly be made to play the same unison D , for contrapuntal reasons , nor could it sound completely satisfactory ) .
19 However , at a more abstract level , the level at which dog : cat , church : cinema , oak : ash and tea : coffee can all be said to manifest the same relation , it is of fundamental significance .
20 On the basis of this identity of reference , they can be said to convey the SAME MESSAGE .
21 In this passage , Wittgenstein mentions one argument for saying that the thought is not the same as the sentence — two sentences ‘ one in English and one in French , may be said to express the same thought ; since the thought is the same but the sentences different the thought is not the same as either of the sentences .
22 In Section 2 he rejects the suggestion , conveyed by the exclamation , ‘ Surely a similarity must strike us , or we should n't be moved to use the same word ’ , that some act must precede the act of using the word ; and in Sections 5 and 10 he talks about the ‘ mistake ’ labelled by the word ‘ to make ’ as it occurs in the question , ‘ What made you call this ‘ red ’ ? ’ )
23 Every MS-DOS computer has a clock that can be used to do the same job as a stop watch .
24 Many different words may be used to represent the same concept .
25 Similarly , the letters " y " ; and " i " may be used to represent the same sound ( Kaiseria or Kayseria ) .
26 ( g ) Indemnities An indemnity clause may be used to achieve the same effect as an exclusion clause .
27 If this were true , then men and women who are married to each other could be assumed to have the same standard of living .
28 Patients whose ability to take medicines is a critical issue could be encouraged to use the same community pharmacy on each occasion .
29 They often have a very small percentage of the population anyway , and er I 'm glad we 've brought this matter up , because I think that is something which needs further investigation , that the the ordinary public and the many little , or the millions of voluntary organisations ought to be encouraged to have a more output in forwarding names .
30 The illogicality of Black and working-class speech is a myth that has now been exploded : perhaps the illogicality of women 's speech is also mythical and should be allowed to go the same way .
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