Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new instrument seeks to skin the same cat but in a slightly different way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Other MIPS RISC-based systems in Olivetti 's stable such as the M700–10 look destined to go the same way . |
| 4 | When the slider potential moves towards R21 the output voltage rises to maintain the same state of equilibrium . |
| 5 | The bachelor wanted to ask the same question , but he said nothing . |
| 6 | The biblical compilation intended to introduce the latter work does not survive . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | same sort of direction continue to do the same sort of things . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now the government is trying another policy designed to achieve the same end . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Brasserie was launched as a fully fledged operation expected to do the same level of business as L'Auberge from the start . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 23 | Why do the Government refuse to give the same backing to British industry as our European Community competitors give to theirs ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The trader himself will fill in another form offering to sell the same item to the finance company . |
| 26 | There are many and varied versions of the link-leger designed to combat the same problem . |
| 27 | What Mr Birchall noticed was that a diet lacking in silicon seems to have the same effect as one rich in aluminium . |
| 28 | ‘ Our computerised systems have definitely played a big part in the fact that our guests keep on returning to Hallery House ; the hotel continues to provide the same level of efficient , friendly service ( whether or not we are there in person ourselves ) at all times . |
| 29 | One minute , your students are ploughing through a set of grammar exercises with apparent ease ; the next , when the opportunity arises to use the same language in a real context , dreadful mistakes occur . |
| 30 | Looking at the world 's 20 million bedrooms , he also estimates that replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents would not only save two thirds of the energy needed to produce the same amount of light but would , over the 5–10 year lifespan of the compact , keep out of the atmosphere 100 million tons of CO2 . |