Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self and Citrine frequently had to sit through the same item of business as it made its way through three , or in extreme cases five , formal meetings of different bodies before being finally approved . |
| 2 | It was , you opened it and come out and shut , shut the door and you 'd lose the penny then they 'd got to go through the same operation with another penny , you know what I mean . |
| 3 | In this way he forces the reader to go through the same process of retrospective illumination that he himself has undergone . |
| 4 | As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes . |
| 5 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
| 6 | It argued that public-sector resources were substantial , ‘ but efforts need to be pulled together more effectively , and brought to bear in the same place at the same time ’ ( ibid . |
| 7 | Similarly , it is often the case that senior officials within the civil service all seem to come from the same sort of background . |
| 8 | Tamas had attempted to stand in the same constituency in the 1985 general election , but had been thwarted by what he had alleged to be communist manipulation of the candidate selection process [ see p. 33812-13 ] . |
| 9 | While it is certainly true that the central core never issued a single agreed programme , a considerable degree of cohesion does emerge from an examination of their critical writings , and an impression of shared novelistic values is suggested by their willingness ( to a greater or lesser extent ) to appear on the same platform at conferences on several occasions and to accept , however grudgingly , the ‘ nouveau roman ’ appellation . |
| 10 | In the final week , however , Waverley and Eildon are expected to appear on the same platform at public meetings . |
| 11 | And then there 're the classic multi-user applications , like sales order processing , where different users have to work on the same file at the same time . |
| 12 | Perhaps because horses are relatively large , and therefore hard to ignore , people tend to behave in the same way in the presence of a horse . |
| 13 | However , as before , No 7819 started in spectacular fashion only to falter on the latter part of the climb . |
| 14 | But she could never hope to participate to the same degree in his excitement and his passion . |
| 15 | The walls of the craft began to buckle under the same kind of sideways force that was pressing in on her body . |
| 16 | Stack claim that the gun is balanced for colour as well as brightness of the image but all the games seemed to play with the same degree of accuracy even with a black&white image . |
| 17 | After four years at sea and now without compass and sextant , apparently the main attributes of its navigational aids , the old tub and crew are in need of a refit and the new establishment would be most foolish to embark upon the same kind of voyage.J I HOWARD , Glendale , Upper Street , Witnesham . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I need him to play in the same role as Mick Tait , who starts a suspension after Tuesday 's game against Stockport . |
| 19 | In spite of these remarkably positive indicators , Singapore is not expected to grow at the same rate in the 1990s . |
| 20 | Singapore is not expected to grow at the same rate in the 1990s . |
| 21 | Company commitment and the willingness to remain with the same firm for long periods may therefore be underpinned by the prospect of heavy sacrifices that accompany the alternatives . |
| 22 | I just want to go with the least amount of gear I can get away with , be able to troubleshoot it myself and keep it simple . |
| 23 | I feel far mo , less sympathy and far less identification with her than I perhaps do with a male worker who has to cope with the same kind of exploitation that I do , day in , day out . |
| 24 | If horses are to be housed indoors , faint illumination at night is preferable , and a shielded twenty-five watt electric light can be arranged to give about the same amount of illumination as a nearly full moon . |
| 25 | One of the first tourists to venture into the former realm of King Zog was John Biffen , who soon discovered his fairly orthodox demeanor was regarded as offensively trendy by Albania 's time-warped Bolshevists . |
| 26 | If you use windows it is worth putting applications that you might need to use at the same time on different drives . |
| 27 | Perhaps even more valuable are those servicemen and servicewomen who are sufficiently secure , motivated , well paid and content to remain in the same job for fifteen , twenty or thirty years , providing a continuity of local knowledge that is invaluable to those who come to rely upon them . |
| 28 | Inexperienced teachers embarking on such experiments are likely to land in the same sort of confusion and chaos that resulted in those primary schools that went headlong into the " integrated day " without a preliminary survey of their available resources and their knowledge of children 's interests and reactions . |
| 29 | He was able to go to the same home for respite care , at first for two weeks in and six weeks at home , on a rota . |
| 30 | Crowds were composed of groups of family , friends , or work-mates tending to go to the same part of the ground and recognizing those around them . |