Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] in the [det] [noun sg] " 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 | It is rare for an overseas couple to find jobs in the same area — most travel to obtain a job wherever offered . |
| 6 | The principal objective of purchaser research is to identify companies in the same business sector which may wish to acquire the client 's business . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By 1972 , presumably to guide people in the same predicament , posts five feet high had been driven into the ground beside the track . |
| 10 | They have an impulse for nest building and all members of a particular species are programmed to build nests in the same way . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Racial discrimination was widespread , most Americans showing an unwillingness to treat Japanese in the same way as white immigrants . |
| 15 | 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 : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | and 100,000 pounds spent on an option to develop land in the same area . |
| 19 | Would waking subjects really respond to dream images in the same way as when asleep ? |
| 20 | The company was not bound to make agreements in the same form or to require any payment . |
| 21 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 22 | This provides you with the opportunity to make objections in the same way as with any other listed building and to put forward alternative solutions . |