Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] in the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ One of the things most appreciated by those running smaller businesses is the chance to meet people in the same boat and discuss matters of joint interest and concern . ’ |
| 2 | An interesting comment from the Arts representative was that ‘ it is financially impossible to train people in the same way they did 5 years ago ’ . |
| 3 | At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here . |
| 4 | It can be very supportive to meet others in the same situation as yourself . |
| 5 | The new bodies created to provide services in the former GLC and metropolitan county areas include numerous joint boards of councillors or QUELGOs ( quasi-elected local government organizations ) . |
| 6 | It is rare for an overseas couple to find jobs in the same area — most travel to obtain a job wherever offered . |
| 7 | The principal objective of purchaser research is to identify companies in the same business sector which may wish to acquire the client 's business . |
| 8 | George Soros 's donation , thought to be the biggest private gift to a humanitarian cause , will go to aid agencies in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | George Soros ' donation — thought to be the biggest private gift given to a humanitarian cause — will go to aid agencies in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | He was so shocked by the case of his businessman brother who was forced into bankruptcy by the Inland Revenue in 1983 , that he founded the Association of Bankrupts to help others in the same position . |
| 11 | He hated seeing wartime documentaries ; they did n't seem to affect Anna in the same way — she seemed to thrill with excitement as the guns flashed and the tanks churned through ruined streets . |
| 12 | By 1972 , presumably to guide people in the same predicament , posts five feet high had been driven into the ground beside the track . |
| 13 | Within a few years of transfer to the South Metropolitan system , all these cars had the headlamps moved from the canopy front to the usual position on the dash , one reason being that it enabled them to carry advertisements in the same positions as the rest of the fleet . |
| 14 | They have an impulse for nest building and all members of a particular species are programmed to build nests in the same way . |
| 15 | The prize for successful candidates , a chance to study medicine in the former Czechoslovakia . |
| 16 | Archives and museums keep objects that hold information and they store information about the entities ( i.e. objects ) they hold , but whether they can be said to hold knowledge in the same way libraries do is debatable . |
| 17 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 18 | We do not have to fear predators in the same way as do other animals , but because we are social beings and rely upon others for survival , learning and fulfilment in life , company is essential . |
| 19 | Racial discrimination was widespread , most Americans showing an unwillingness to treat Japanese in the same way as white immigrants . |
| 20 | In ‘ The Dissolution of Character in the Novel ’ she expresses her faith in the power of the computer as a concept to change literature in the same way that print did nearly five hundred years ago : |
| 21 | The first office he is known to have held ( in 1256 ) was the purely local one of coroner and in 1258 he was one of the four Shropshire knights appointed to investigate grievances in the same county under the Provisions of Oxford . |
| 22 | Buddy invites us to regard Holly in the same light , mocking ( in a horribly nudging re-creation ) Lubbock old-timers like The Hayriders , who sing : ‘ When the sun goes down on Blue Ridge Mountain It 's the time to whistle in your ear . ’ |
| 23 | Sir Robert Lee , who was also stated to have property in the selfsame places was a prominent local figure . |
| 24 | and 100,000 pounds spent on an option to develop land in the same area . |
| 25 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 26 | Apart from LCpl Smith , and my driver ( I have my own Land-Rover ) , the Adjutant is really the one I work most closely with ; we always seem to take part in the same parades , but we usually get back to barracks first , leaving the officers and men on guard . |
| 27 | Would waking subjects really respond to dream images in the same way as when asleep ? |
| 28 | Indeed , the Education & Training Directorate believes that the time has come to review the continuation of the policy of requiring all candidates to take papers in the same subjects . |
| 29 | On Aug. 13-14 an extraordinary session of the UN Human Rights Commission was held in Geneva to examine events in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 30 | The company was not bound to make agreements in the same form or to require any payment . |