Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 He was at all times happy , said his lordship , to give his assent to any measure that could relieve the unfortunate debtor without giving an opportunity to the adulterer , the swindler etc. to take advantage of the same law — .
32 For example , a 30 second live report which is due to take place at the same time as Martina Navratilova is about to serve for the match can be both a reporter 's dream and a producer 's nightmare .
33 A new defence doctrine began to take shape at the same time : it was intended to be non-offensive in character and to give other states no reason to fear for their security , notwithstanding the immense size of Soviet armed forces and the perceptions of those forces that were entertained particularly in Europe .
34 But in response to public demand they 're to continue production at the same rate beyond March next year .
35 It is all the more surprising , therefore , that the DC-10 was to fall victim to the same hazard when the Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed with so many fatalities near paris .
36 Data from a large sample will show the earliest age at which a child would be expected to gain control of a particular aspect of language , and the age by which 90 per cent or 95 per cent of non-handicapped children might be expected to show evidence of the same ability .
37 On March 12 , 1990 , the EP voted by 140 to 61 to authorize prosecution for the latter statements .
38 Of particular importance in this connection is the ability children have to derive the structural regularities of their native language — its grammatical rules — from the utterances of their parents and others around them , and then to make use of the same regularities in the construction of utterances they have never heard before .
39 Nizan was only too pleased to attack fascism with the same verve as he had until then been attacking the " evils " of social democracy .
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