Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This study aimed to use the same methods to examine anorectal function in 23 patients with complete supraconal spinal cord lesions and to determinate the relationship between the site of the lesion and the existence of inconsistent phenomena . |
| 2 | The new instrument seeks to skin the same cat but in a slightly different way . |
| 3 | He was reminded of something he had read somewhere : that it was seldom wise to return to any former haunt hoping to recapture the same pleasure it had first given , because it was sure to be different and disappointing . |
| 4 | Other MIPS RISC-based systems in Olivetti 's stable such as the M700–10 look destined to go the same way . |
| 5 | When the slider potential moves towards R21 the output voltage rises to maintain the same state of equilibrium . |
| 6 | The bachelor wanted to ask the same question , but he said nothing . |
| 7 | The biblical compilation intended to introduce the latter work does not survive . |
| 8 | A similar conclusion was reached by Gruenberg ( 1977 ) from a population study in Sweden , although further analysis of the same population failed to reach the same conclusion ( Rorsman et al . |
| 9 | The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles . |
| 10 | The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles . |
| 11 | It can only be hoped that the newly aggressive financial players of the Thatcher era manage to avoid the same errors . |
| 12 | In Dunton v. Dunton ( 1892 ) 18 V.L.R. 114 ( Supreme Court of Victoria ) , the Court ( Higinbotham and Williams JJ. , Hood J. dissenting ) held that an agreement between ex-spouses whereby the former husband undertook to pay the former wife £6 per month , ‘ so long as she … shall conduct herself with sobriety , and in a respectable , orderly , and virtuous manner ’ was a valid contract made for a consideration . |
| 13 | ‘ We have sites in France and the UK and now we have a strong presence in Germany — a cohesive team fighting to achieve the same objective . ’ |
| 14 | To be equivalent to this , an investment in a two-year bond has to yield the same amount , implying that the current two-year rate is rs 2 = 7 per cent : 100(1.07) 2 = 114.49 . |
| 15 | same sort of direction continue to do the same sort of things . |
| 16 | However the front end of the Ballymena triple failed to produce the same consistency in the second half of the game , otherwise it may well have been a different story . |
| 17 | Now the government is trying another policy designed to achieve the same end . |
| 18 | Theoretically , we might expect this to be so , since the same environment tends to support the same kind of organisms , but in fact the persistence of some fossils appears to go far beyond what we know at the present day . |
| 19 | Apart from conviction each new voice of authority appears to have the same weight as the one we believe , and every moment of unreality calls in question the reality of all past experience . |
| 20 | The Brasserie was launched as a fully fledged operation expected to do the same level of business as L'Auberge from the start . |
| 21 | Here , though , the procedure of the auctioneer was somewhat different , for at first the most attractive girls were auctioned to the highest bidders and then a sort of reverse auction took place in which the unattractive ones were distributed : instead of ascending , the bidding descended until the man prepared to accept the least payment got the girl . |
| 22 | Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided . |
| 23 | His voice seemed to fill the few inches ' space between them , bringing them even closer . |
| 24 | The alternative name for a close relation , Hamburg parsley , is turnip-rooted , the root being the part for which it is grown , and ordinary parsley tends to follow the same root pattern . |
| 25 | ‘ Of necessity ’ , they wrote , ‘ the Government had to use the former regime 's detention institutions , which in the best of times had been rudimentary and which deteriorated notably in the years prior to the fall of Somoza ’ ( IACHR 1983 : 99 ) . |
| 26 | Why do the Government refuse to give the same backing to British industry as our European Community competitors give to theirs ? |
| 27 | The sounds of night , picked out one by one , are imitated in the carefully constructed lines ; yet the pauses between the sounds are also conveyed in the slowness and tranquillity of the whole passage , so that the general effect is one of intense stillness , with the ear strained to catch the least noise . |
| 28 | The pensioners ' organization threatened to defend the former pensions law through the courts . |
| 29 | Whilst in no way related , the stories of the pea and the pine serve to illustrate the many facets of plant introduction through the ages , reminding us of those thoughtful , artistic , practical and often intrepid individuals who were responsible for the plants which grace our parks and gardens today . |
| 30 | The trader himself will fill in another form offering to sell the same item to the finance company . |