Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
| 2 | As fast as rubber wore from the tread , fresh rubber formed on the inside , while the whole tyre slowly expanded to keep the same size . |
| 3 | Those who broke into the inn tonight want to find the same treasure . |
| 4 | The to infinitive in sentences such as ( 21 ) — ( 25 ) above seems to involve the same mechanism of representation . |
| 5 | Kelly says that couples living together soon start to share the same skin bacteria , and it is this familiarity that enables women to pick out their men so successfully . |
| 6 | Both Ken and Hugh Paddick just had to feel the same way . |
| 7 | George Evans just managed to catch the same flight as Morgan and Horowitz , but the last seat available was Economy Class . |
| 8 | The likeliest explanation is that Greek settlers moving in from the south gradually came to dominate the many hill tribes of the region — much as , a little later , Chinese moving into what is now Vietnam came to dominate the local tribes there . |
| 9 | about law and the film business cos there 's loads of jobs to choose from , ba and you 've still got to do the same thing |
| 10 | I did n't ever seem to get the same sort of satisfaction out of getting something to balance properly as I did out of seeing a patient recover , which was something you 'd helped them to do . |
| 11 | But she wondered if , even given time and the success that she was hoping for , he might ever come to feel the same way about her . |
| 12 | Alright , logging the data does n't change the nature of the data , what it does do is that it re-scales the data , okay so the only thing that 's , that 's , that 's changed by logging , right , is the scale of the cr is the vertical scale on the graph , right , but essentially we are still trying to model the same series and N T C is essentially the same series as T C. |
| 13 | He is still trying to sail the same course but the boat is just sliding sideways across the water . |
| 14 | You will then also need to drill the same contrast in all other positions in which it occurs . |
| 15 | One consequence of all this was that when a Commons Defence Committee later met to disentangle the many grievances , John Nott — the defence secretary who ‘ misled ’ the Commons about the circumstances of the sinking of the General Belgrano — explained : ‘ In a few years ’ time , with satellites , the task of censorship will become an impossible one . ’ |
| 16 | I was a better investment than my sister , because I passed the eleven-plus , went to grammar school , would get a good job ( university was later seen to offer the same arena of advantages ) , marry a man who would , as she said , buy " me a house , and you a house . |
| 17 | Women 's sub also happened to say the same thing . |
| 18 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 19 | He had also engaged to do the same thing for Chief Superintendent John Coffin and one or two other enemies if he could get round to them , but he had let Place know that he had a prior claim . |
| 20 | Lyn de Alwis now proposed to use the same technique to persuade captured wild elephants to walk quietly into the back of a truck . |
| 21 | Flushed by success in selling homes in the slump , Pidgeley now plans to perform the same miracle in the recession-bashed commercial property sector . |
| 22 | Federal Express now plans to follow the same approach with other customers . |
| 23 | For the er we 'd really like to do the same thing for the whole weapons system with Eurofighter also but the the premium that eurofighter might demand to cover the risk . |
| 24 | What makes it look all the more daft is that they will often have to wear the same number tabard all the way through , which over top hat and tails makes them look like someone wearing his vest over his dinner jacket . |
| 25 | After her success with Kate Moss , Sarah now hopes to work the same magic with Kate 's brother Nick , who is 16 and still a schoolboy in Croydon . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd rather hoped to enjoy the same conditions myself . ’ |
| 27 | The indictment ended months of secret negotiations between Weinberger 's lawyers and the prosecution team , who had reportedly sought to persuade the former Defence Secretary to plead guilty to a misdemeanour and to provide evidence concerning Reagan 's role in the cover-up of the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 28 | It is not possible here to attempt to unravel the many strands of thought and practice that have historically influenced the contemporary curriculum in this way , but it may be useful to refer briefly to some of them before going on to consider the current pattern . |
| 29 | In other words , Sartre 's attempt to combine Marxism with existentialist subjectivity can not resolve its difficulties through a shift from economism to history , for history implicitly continues to fulfil the same function anyway . |
| 30 | Yasmin 's brother brought her to London from their home in Bradford for the day , but meeting at the tube station proved nearly impossible , as we each had only a telephone description of the other and had unfortunately arranged to meet the same Saturday as a huge poll tax march . |