Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi . |
| 2 | By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth . |
| 3 | Bernice shook loose the amiable scrap of nothing and watched as it fluttered away , lost in moments in the gentle glow of Moloch 's endless day . |
| 4 | Gertrude Stein expressed much the same idea when she wrote , ‘ Picasso in his early Cubist pictures used printed letters as did Juan Gris to force the painted surface to measure up to something rigid and the rigid thing was the printed letter . ’ |
| 5 | Gilligan mentions here the anonymous woman whose nonlegalistic thinking enabled Solomon to display his legendary wisdom . |
| 6 | The reviews were not entirely dismissive , but Hardy remembered only the harsh comments in the Spectator , read ‘ as he sat on a stile leading to the eweleaze he had to cross on his way home to Bockhampton . |
| 7 | The double bed where she had lain with Johnny occupied much the same position as did her own . |
| 8 | But Kylie had just the right look and style and character . |
| 9 | It was his second consecutive penalty miss and Norwich 's third out of four this season , and Walker said afterwards the Welsh international would not be given the job in future . |
| 10 | Encouraged , David pushed aside the flimsy bra , and his sensitive fingers gently kneaded the soft flesh that swelled under his touch . |
| 11 | Nevertheless Paine makes much the same point as Rousseau in his contention , in Rights of Man , that : |
| 12 | When in 1967 E. R. Leach made exactly the same point on the BBC , there was a national uproar with bishops and pundits of all kinds fulminating in the newspapers against the impiety of the idea , in much the same way that they had done against Engels almost a hundred years before . |
| 13 | An NVQ co-ordinator , Gill Murdoch , was appointed in May to carry forward the challenging work of developing assessment strategies for level 4 qualifications and informing and helping potential centresand candidates in implementing the new qualification system . |
| 14 | On Feb. 20 President Blaise Compaore suspended indefinitely the National Reconciliation Forum on democracy , human rights and development which had begun meeting in Ouagadougou on Feb. 11 [ for January preliminary discussions see p. 38709 ] . |
| 15 | And we know that Gundulph built here the first buildings which became known as the Bishops ' Palace , and it is most probable that when building his Manor House he rebuilt the church . |
| 16 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 17 | Mr Pearson 's Shotover has exactly the right air of a rapt scientific experimenter trying to attain power through means of mind . |
| 18 | Of major industrial countries , certainly within Europe , Britain and Spain provide perhaps the widest variation on these factors . |
| 19 | In the leading role , singer-turned-actor Dutronc has exactly the right quality of physical frailty and stooped sadness to complement Pialat 's beautiful , poignant images . |
| 20 | England has approximately the same land area as New York State , Scotland the same area as South Carolina , and Wales the same as Massachusetts . |
| 21 | The Pekinel sisters are unfortunate in that Justus Frantz and Christoph Eschenbach cover much the same ground on two mid-price CDs instead of three full-price ones . |
| 22 | It was not till fourteen years later that Rospigliosi produced his second comic opera , Dal Male il Bene , of which Marazzoli composed only the Second Act . |
| 23 | And Ray praises highly the many people from across the country who agreed to take part in the four-part series . |
| 24 | God 's providential intentions were realized by Constantine : Augustus had united the world under Roman rule , Christ under God 's , and Constantine welded together the two unities in a Christian society which was , in principle , universal . |
| 25 | Police in Oxfordshire have joined colleagues in Portugal and Denmark to piece together the final moments of Mr Christensen 's life . |
| 26 | This has now had to be shelved with the arrival of a Diktat from the Bundestag criticising both the excessive cost and the involvement of the Foreign Ministry . |
| 27 | But it is presumably these later criticisms , made long after his emancipation from Wagner , that inspired Elisabeth to explain away the Wagnerian connection as merely secondary ; while her claims about her brother 's real intention to produce a " large " book about Greece ( and nothing but Greece ) would seem to be prompted by a desire to enhance his scholarly image ; for no other kind of book ( she decided ) would have satisfied his " scholar 's conscience . " |
| 28 | Reynolds had only the vaguest memory of his search of the Evergreens , but he thought he could find what he was looking for . |
| 29 | Simon had only the vaguest idea of where she worked and what was involved , but did n't much mind . |
| 30 | A thorough search of the Sea Rover revealed only the charred remnants of what was later analysed as cannabis , blowing around the decks . |