Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , please note that holidays do not necessarily return to the same port of departure . |
| 2 | Attention is drawn to the fact that , while the balance conditions ( 7.9 ) and ( 7.10 ) for the Maxwell L-C bridge are independent of frequency , those for the Hay version are frequency dependent , so that for good results with this version an extremely pure sinusoidal source is needed and , ideally , a detection system that only responds to the same frequency . |
| 3 | This is not to say that they convey the same sense , nor that they necessarily refer to the same event ; but given what we know , both about the real world and the fictional world , it is reasonable to infer from each the same event . |
| 4 | If , as appears likely , it only applies to the latter case , can it be invoked by any Member State or only by a Member State which voted against the legislation ? |
| 5 | However , those who share the same class situation will not necessarily belong to the same status group . |
| 6 | The main points arising from this are that : ( 1 ) the vowel system is totally different from mainstream British English in terms of vowel-length , vowel-height , diphthongization and other properties ( for example , vowel-length is not usually contrastive , as it is alleged to be in RP , and so most vowel-phonemes , such as /e/ , as in gate , save , are realized as considerably longer or shorter allophones according to consonantal environment ) ; ( 2 ) allophones of phonemes can overlap phonetically with allophones of other phonemes in a manner that is not permitted by classical phoneme theory ( Bloomfield , 1933 ) ; ( 3 ) lexical items do not necessarily belong to the same vowel phoneme classes as they do in RP and SBE ( for example , whereas good and food have different vowels in most SBE , they have the same vowel in Ulster English ) ; and ( 4 ) many sets of lexical items exhibit vowel alternations , in that the vowels in these items are realizations of two different phonemes . |
| 7 | But his tortured mind could only come to the same conclusion . |
| 8 | We soon came to the same decision , which was that having promised the boys we would help them , we could n't now let them down . |
| 9 | He was a comparative stranger to the London men , hardly committed to the same extent as local leaders such as Ben Tillett , John Burns , Tom Mann and Tom Walsh , his own union 's delegate . |
| 10 | Pure democracy has never worked : it works in a moderated form where there is a literacy qualification , or a property-owning qualification — which usually amounts to the same thing — and the voter is capable of making an informed judgement . |
| 11 | They always go to the same place . |
| 12 | We may contrast with this the phrase semantic components , where the two interpretations are virtually indistinguishable ; it will be seen that this phrase will always come to the same thing in practical terms , whether we regard the components as being semantic , with ascriptive use of the adjective , or as components connected with semantics , taking the associative interpretation . |
| 13 | Although many sentences with this surface sequence will always come to the same thing pragmatically , whichever of the two constructions is assumed ( this is one of the features which can make careful syntactic analysis such a delicate matter ) , it is nonetheless possible to find some which are open to either syntactic interpretation but with a clear difference in meaning ; this will then help to throw the syntactic difference into relief . |
| 14 | and which angle we work with it still come to the same thing . |
| 15 | ‘ Lyrically , thematically , my work is still changed to the same bowl of vomit . ’ |
| 16 | A magazine with the vision to run these two very different pieces in the same issue , in the knowledge that they could both appeal to the same reader , deserves applause . |
| 17 | The wrasses are territorial , and the same grouper may later return to the same cleaner wrasse . |
| 18 | Whenever the potential difference across a resistance is reduced to a fraction A of a previous value , the current through it is also reduced to the same fraction A and the attenuation of power is given by A 2 . |
| 19 | You 'll be alright — you probably went to the same school . |
| 20 | It is possible also , that some of the CIT historical material from Commonwealth sources will also go to the same place . |
| 21 | Snake venom peptides ( the sarafotoxins ) also belong to the same family . |
| 22 | Both were itinerants and masterless men , sometimes both subjected to the same vagrancy laws ( alternatively the player might be a royal servant — an interesting opposition in itself ) . |
| 23 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 24 | Following the increase for the eldest eligible child last April , we have made a further increase for all children in October , with corresponding increases in income-related benefit rates to make sure that the less well-off families also gained to the same extent . |
| 25 | Auks are ‘ site-faithful ’ , often returning to the same ledge and the same partner year after year . |
| 26 | The chapters which follow will deal in more detail with the various theories of data involved in the use of social research methods : there are a variety of these , often connected to the same method , just as there are a variety of perspectives in sociology . |
| 27 | She and Cati were born into the same family , went to the same school , heard the same sermons on Sundays and feast days , and often confessed to the same priest ; but Cati liked to cover herself in guilt , a kind of protective clothing that her elder sister had once inspected , tried on for size , and then discarded . |
| 28 | The observed differences are local and mainly restricted to the former metal sites and their environment . |
| 29 | That should ensure her safety , since the disc jockey inevitably stuck to the same pattern of fast music at this stage of the evening , keeping the slow , romantic records for the end of the night . |
| 30 | Charges often amount to the same thing . |