Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teenager who can not find a job , the young mother with no one but toddlers to talk to , the active man forced to retire because of age regulations , the person who spends day after day doing the same repetitive work — all these people , and many others , may suffer from extreme boredom . |
| 2 | But ringing has shown that the same birds return year after year to patrol the same wintering areas , the oldest birds having done the round trip up to 30 times . |
| 3 | Both of the basic purposes of education require the same essential tools . |
| 4 | Third party suppliers of gas use the same regional transmission and distribution systems . |
| 5 | The firms use the factors of production to produce the many different types of goods and services which they then sell to households ( whose spending is called consumption ) , the government , foreigners ( who buy exports ) and other firms ( whose spending on capital goods is called investment ) . |
| 6 | They also had to share ordinary police duties with Royal Military Police in order to give the latter civilian experience and to condition the public to being policed by them . |
| 7 | As this process continues , the scope for further squeezing of the wealth of households through inflation is being reduced , and , so long as the authorities rely on inflation as a method of financing government expenditure , they will be obliged constantly to speed up the rate of inflation in order to achieve the same real effect . |
| 8 | The Americans , by contrast , have , until the current backlash , attempted to expand the insanity defence , with its controversial ‘ not guilty ’ judgment , in order to achieve the same compassionate aim of keeping the mentally-ill out of prison . |
| 9 | Therefore , if the firm is efficient with regard to its investment policy , the investor must accept the same level of risk as the firm in order to achieve the same expected return . |
| 10 | The scattered seismic observations are summarised on Fig. 2 on the assumption that they do in fact record the same fundamental detachment zone . |
| 11 | One major potential market is in the United States , where frequent litigation over equipment affects the many indoor climbing walls . |
| 12 | The same autograph-hunting crowds wait for her and the same bland interviewers are at hand to ask the same repetitive questions for TV , radio , newspaper or magazines . |
| 13 | The change also raises important theoretical questions because reading by touch involves the same cognitive and linguistic skills as visual reading but uses a system which differs physically and in modality . |