Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] in the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | It is true that the shareholders would make an impact if they were to agree to vote in the same way , but this will usually involve the costs of educating and obtaining the co-operation of other shareholders being borne by individual activist members , and these are likely to outweigh the benefits that will be captured by them , since any increase in the value of the company attributable to intervention will be distributed among the shareholders as a whole . |
2 | ‘ I told you to keep going in the same direction . |
3 | ‘ It is important , if you are to continue to live in the same house . ’ |
4 | Thus , although incoming variants of both vowels appear to have originated in the same hinterland Scots dialect , each has assumed a diametrically opposed social value in its new urban setting . |
5 | It used to make me really mad because some of me brothers and sisters used to get put in the same homes together , but I was always on my own . |
6 | However , parallel cousins who may in reality be half-siblings are also likely to have lived in the same household . |
7 | Do n't believe everything he says , mind , but he claims to have lived in the same house all his life . |
8 | Ice motion causes the meteorites to become concentrated in the same sort of way that mountain streams concentrate deposits of gold or other heavy minerals in ‘ lenses ’ or into layered structures . |