Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 2 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 3 | As David Shulman , equity strategist at Salomon Brothers , was the first to point out , the danger for investors these days lies less with the few hot shares whose rise he misses than with the many dubious ones already in his portfolio . |
| 4 | This study looks only at the latter two groups . |
| 5 | The master raconteur looks back at the many amusing moments of his 47-year career at the BBC . |
| 6 | For them to taketh away with the same greedy hand is no longer tolerable . |
| 7 | Othello ends up with the same poisoned suspicions as Iago , who had earlier confessed that he suspects both Othello and Cassio of having cuckolded him with Emilia ( II.i.285ff . ) . |
| 8 | The same applies to the Committee 's use of the term " reality " which , when placed in significant opposition to " convention " , refers back to the same selective cultural parameters . |
| 9 | Actually , the ‘ embarrassment of riches ’ problem boils down to the same failing as that of the biological and personality-type theories : they both produced categories that were , apparently , far too weakly related to crime to be worthy of a ‘ positivist ’ discipline . |
| 10 | Yet the practising Christian remains as ignorant as his predecessors of centuries ago ; and he subscribes essentially to the same simplistic accounts he heard when he himself was a child . |
| 11 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 12 | Works out about the same 7 |