Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes had turned the same colour and I caught a whiff of that strange perfume which sometimes emanated from him , sweet but sickly . |
| 2 | For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) . |
| 3 | The Pilot Survey showed some monitoring , further standardisation of the equipment was essential , mainly though , I 'm going to make sure all schools have got the same pipes and connector and I 'm going to give them some solutions to test because there was a bit of variation between schools , and there will be variation geographically , so I want to be able to have a measure of any error that will be involved as well . |
| 4 | Some manufacturers have overcome the latter factor by placing the batteries in a compartment separate from the control box ( eg Fisher 1266-X and C-Scope CS4ZX ) . |
| 5 | Two promoters had obtained the same A G ( all mutations are indicated for the upper strand ) substitution at position -65 , two promoters had obtained an A G substitution at -72 , three promoters had obtained double mutations : A G at -65 together with C T at -1 , A G at -65 with C T at +4 and A G at -65 together with A G at -33 . |
| 6 | And the tame descendants have kept the same views on this matter . |
| 7 | So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner . |
| 8 | Composers have followed the same pattern . ) |
| 9 | Later writers have voiced the same view . |
| 10 | W. Lancaster 's 13/0 stainless steel cutlery : some customers have used the same set for 20 years |
| 11 | He told his fellow prisoners of an attack on a colonial settlement where the creatures had made the same noises just before they raided and massacred the colonists . |
| 12 | According to reliable sources , but unknown to Jack , at least three other signalmen had experienced the same chain of events , but all had kept their frightening experiences to themselves to avoid the ridicule of their workmates . |
| 13 | Most of the new members had held the same portfolios in the Council of Ministers , including Marshal Dmitry Yazov as Defence Minister , Sergei Lushchikov as Justice Minister , and Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov as chair of the State Security Committee ( KGB ) . |
| 14 | There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country . |
| 15 | All teachers have had the same training , but styles and personalities can differ greatly . |
| 16 | ‘ Our idea is not to change the nature of the force to move from peacekeeping to peacemaking , ’ said Jean-Bernard Merimee , the ambassador of France , whose forces have suffered the most casualties in the Balkans . |
| 17 | Those treaties have followed the same course . |
| 18 | Other girls have had the same idea , but so far he 's still Mystery Miguel . ’ |
| 19 | It must be noted that some sixth form colleges have encountered the same problems and are more successful in areas where they are not in direct competition with 11–18 schools . |
| 20 | We will briefly consider how choice theorists have tackled the latter problem before examining the defects of the main thrust of this liberal interpretation of contractual obligations . |
| 21 | Others had had the same idea . |
| 22 | Others had tried the same demolition job when Ian Hislop took over at Private Eye , but the continued involvement of icons Ingrams and Cook helped him survive . |
| 23 | My soldiers had inherited the same genes from the present queen as those old soldiers had inherited from the ancestral queens . |
| 24 | And in the Lower Sixth at RBAI the boys have chosen the same subjects — maths , physics and chemistry . |
| 25 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 26 | In short , generations of students have enjoyed the many benefits of free and automatic membership of the Stirling University Students ' Association ( SUSA ) . |
| 27 | The same kind of reasoning , on a smaller scale , leads to the conclusion that the common ancestor of the oil-bird and the cave swiftlet also did not use echolocation , and that these two genera have developed the same technology independently of each other . |
| 28 | Who knows how many women have had the same ordeal as myself ? |
| 29 | Other investigations have addressed the same question in a clinical context . |
| 30 | He says several other tour operators have suffered the same fate . |