Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presentations of the results followed the same format as last year and journalists invited to Blackfriars were given the opportunity to sample some of the own brand products introduced into stores in 1992/93 . |
| 2 | If it could be computerised , anonymous documents could be sifted to find those with the same author . |
| 3 | Rail users have been subjected to annual fare increases well above inflation for several years now , so it is quite justified for motorists to receive some of the same treatment . |
| 4 | The following list of the main nutrients in food shows that if there is one type of food that you do n't like , or find too expensive , it is possible to substitute another within the same group to keep the diet balanced . |
| 5 | It is interesting to note that s.1(2) ( above ) would also appear to cover much of the same territory . |
| 6 | To be sure of maintaining quality control over this , a manager would need to cover much of the same ground personally , something clearly out of the question . |
| 7 | Dexter recalled that halfway through the homelessness report Nicola had delivered a short lecture about the appalling conditions in which one family lived while managing to look stunning at the same time . |
| 8 | ‘ To experience two within the same day is no less than a catastrophe . |
| 9 | The Shetlanders do n't seem to do that to the same extent they do n't seem to change their dialect . |
| 10 | Nations have to do this at the same time as they keep up economic growth , or accept a drop in standards of living . |
| 11 | Thus one might , said Dionysius , say that God was ‘ good ’ but it was necessary to qualify this in the same breath : he was Goodness itself but he was not ‘ good ’ in the limited way that human beings understood this quality . |
| 12 | Food started to run short around the same time . |
| 13 | Alternatively , however , you may want to emphasise the point that actual readers are unlikely to respond all in the same way , especially readers differing in gender , class , age , ethnicity or some other aspect of social identity . |
| 14 | Artists and managers are also concerned that initial plans to price DCC in the same bracket as ordinary pre-recorded cassettes may be abandoned in favour of a cost comparative to the CD format . |
| 15 | There followed such extravagant follies as Bonnie Prince Charlie ( 1948 ) and an Anna Karenina ( 1947 ) in which Vivien Leigh vainly tried to bring some of the same magic to the role as Greta Garbo had 12 years earlier . |
| 16 | At just about the same time , a cigar-gnawing chief executive thousands of miles away was shredding his meticulously planned TV schedules to find a slot for a homely Australian series which was to become one of the all time surprise hits , turning many of its stars into instant celebrities . |
| 17 | It 's an opportunity for the company to become efficient at the same time , to have new life injected into it , to bring on and develop talented younger people who might otherwise become stifled and consequently up and go . |