Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So but er the overseas fellow , You know I 'll consider just on the same level , and ofte Well I never saw any er what you 'd call bickering and biding between the black and the white student . |
2 | If , for example , a customer likes Marks and Spencers ' potato crisps , he can only buy more at the same shop ( or another branch of Marks and Spencers in a different town ) . |
3 | If it can be weathered without undue damage , interest rates should fall sharply in the latter half of next year . |
4 | Such men depended upon success for support : for while du Guesclin might play upon his Breton origin to gather a force ( or route ) around him , the English could not do so with the same ease , and therefore came to rely upon their reputations to draw men to their service . |
5 | Although the argument has been used that the proposed primary school will increase traffic , it will not do so by the same volume . |
6 | Every mental phenomenon includes something as object within itself , although they do not all do so in the same way . |
7 | Doth a fountain send forth at the same place , Sweet water and bitter ? ’ ' |
8 | I say it again to show there is no ill will — ‘ Doth a fountain send forth at the same place , Sweet water and bitter ? ’ ' |
9 | The majority of economic historians would probably incline more to the latter view now , though the extent to which revisionist case can be taken remains debatable . |
10 | They can do both at the same time . |
11 | What you can do both at the same time can you ? |
12 | Nobody else can do both within the same song . |
13 | Although one would probably incline pragmatically to the former interpretation in sentence 3 and to the latter interpretation in sentence 4 , the context could easily override these preferences — most obviously , perhaps , in the case of the president being a woman . |
14 | The number of mills that could work effectively on the same stream was limited , which led to smaller streams being used by means of building dams to create mill-ponds . |
15 | ‘ We used to share the same office and we can work together in the same environment , but not when we are actually working for the same clients , ’ she says . |
16 | Each Marking Kit contains seven overlays , so up to seven teachers can mark together at the same time . |
17 | Considerable variation in shore fauna can occur even in the same stretch of coast . |
18 | Their relationship with the organisation is likely to be transient they are brought in for a particular event and might or might not work again for the same organisation . |
19 | Academic councils , professional resource centres and curriculum " clusters " all acknowledge the need to diminish isolation , but they do not all look forward with the same clear-sightedness further into any young person 's life . |
20 | These may be referred to as paradigmatic or conceptual collocates [ Smadja , 1989 ] , and are characterised by an equal distribution of one term about the other within a given context ( e.g. ’ mortgage ’ & ’ property ’ can occur anywhere within the same sentence in relation to each other ) . |
21 | Every year races , such as the London , demonstrate how disabled and able-bodied athletes can compete side-by-side in the same competition . |
22 | Let's sleep together in the same bed , hugging each other like this . |
23 | organizing employees into a team that can perform efficiently with the least supervision and friction |
24 | ‘ Keeping the bend and making Benji move sideways at the same time is not easy , ’ she said . |
25 | He regarded perpetual change as the fundamental law governing all things — a view which is summarized in his famous aphorism , ‘ You can not step twice into the same river ’ . |
26 | Quiss cleared his throat and leaned forward towards the small figure , which shrank away without actually stepping back , " Right , " Quiss said , " the answer to the question is : You ca n't have both in the same universe , Got it ? " |
27 | " Yes , " nodded the attendant , " yes , I think I 've got it : " You ca n't have both in the same universe . " |
28 | And whilst we had no opportunities last year for canvassing or erm for getting members we we could have I I felt er put on more fund-raising events as we had a quiet year and we could have probably at the same time persuaded one or two people to actually join us . |
29 | That a legal system should develop two separate concepts of ownership , both of which can apply simultaneously to the same property , and effectively two separate legal systems , is by no means self-evident . |
30 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates reportedly came up with an ingenious solution when he was romancing venture capitalist Ann Winblad : observing that the same movies are usually playing at the same time all over America , they came up with the Virtual Date — they 'd each go alone to the same movie at the same time , and discuss it afterwards on their car phones . |