Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [det] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these are mixed in the same diagram the distinctions between categories should be indicated by using differently shaped blocks . |
| 2 | In a linked announcement made at the same time the company unveiled a low-end addition to its 6611 multi-protocol router family — designed to tackle the burgeoning and lucrative branch-office market . |
| 3 | The Treasury 's forecast , indicates gross domestic product in Britain this year will increase by 1 p.c. , rising to 3 p.c. in the first six months of 1993 , compared with the same period the previous year . |
| 4 | He noted , in his journal in October 1919 , that there had been an increase of 37 vagrants attending the institution as ‘ casuals ’ in the previous two weeks compared with the same period the previous year ; six of them were discharged soldiers . |
| 5 | Thailand increased its rubber exports by 31 per cent in the first half of 1985 compared with the same period the year before — yet its rubber revenues fell by eight per cent1 . |
| 6 | Britain 's non-oil exports to France were up by 12 per cent last December , compared to the same month the year before . |
| 7 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 8 | Fought in the same regiment-in the Civil War . |
| 9 | That was deemed to be 15 seconds too long , Sam was penalised one shot then bowed out in a play-off to old foe Mark ‘ Jesse ’ James who gunned him down by holing an outrageous downhill put on the self-same green the following evening . |
| 10 | A dépot des archives was set up in 1688 ; while the Marquis de Torcy ( Louis 's last Foreign Minister ) had begun about the same time the creation of a rudimentary Press bureau . |
| 11 | When faced with the same problem the compilers of the LOB corpus opted for a statistical approach . |
| 12 | If the fish are obtained from the same area the chances are that they all came from the same parents . |
| 13 | Hitler 's massive personal popularity enhanced at the same time the readiness to accept uncritically his proclaimed struggle against the immense ( but anonymous ) power of world Jewry , and to welcome the increasing levels of ‘ legal ’ discrimination against Jews which he publicly advocated . |
| 14 | A vastly increased supply of turf and logs was required for the many fires the occasion demanded . |
| 15 | When paid from the same age the difference in capital value is 10 per cent . |
| 16 | At the inquest held on the same day the jury found that he had been in a deranged state of mind , his friend Wilshere having given evidence to that effect . |
| 17 | In legislative elections held at the same time the PLN won 29 of the 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly . |