Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chirrups of the crickets are calling songs , designed to attract females of the same species as the calling male . |
| 2 | They have an impulse for nest building and all members of a particular species are programmed to build nests in the same way . |
| 3 | He was more than prepared to trade blows with the former circus act Benichou . |
| 4 | Terriers sometimes suffer from this same problem when they are used to evict foxes from the same sort of terrain . |
| 5 | Britain is at the stage when we must no longer expect sections of our land to be retained for the benefit of the few , when they could be used to provide jobs for the many . |
| 6 | Moreover , the slight shifts in core levels , called chemical shifts , can be used to differentiate atoms of the same element in different environments , either within one molecule or in a mixed sample . |
| 7 | Election poster campaigns by the main political parties customarily occupy sites previously booked by others — by clients of the party 's agency who can be persuaded to postpone campaigns for a few weeks , by the Central Office of Information ( whose government advertising goes on hold once an election is called ) or reputedly ( in the case of the Tories ) by the big brewers and tobacco companies . |
| 8 | One may look not only at the rest of the section in which the word appears but at the statute as a whole , and even at earlier legislation dealing with the same subject-matter — for it is assumed that when Parliament passed an Act , it probably had the earlier legislation in mind , and probably intended to use words with the same meaning as before . |
| 9 | The company was not bound to make agreements in the same form or to require any payment . |
| 10 | A few were converted to target tugs at the same base . |
| 11 | The first office he is known to have held ( in 1256 ) was the purely local one of coroner and in 1258 he was one of the four Shropshire knights appointed to investigate grievances in the same county under the Provisions of Oxford . |
| 12 | If we had continued to treat patients at the same rate — there has been an unprecedented , inexplicable , and hence unforeseeable rise of 12% in medical emergencies — we would have been at least £0.5m in the red by the end of the financial year . |
| 13 | Received messages can be deleted or stored and even structured to link messages from the same person or about the same subject . |
| 14 | The new bodies created to provide services in the former GLC and metropolitan county areas include numerous joint boards of councillors or QUELGOs ( quasi-elected local government organizations ) . |
| 15 | Certainly the young middle-class , or rising middle-class person can be guaranteed to meet others of the same age who are respectable but not too serious . |
| 16 | The four-man team presented its report to the Attorney General for the Free State , Mr T.P. McNally , who has been mandated to investigate charges by a former policeman that as a member of a ‘ police murder unit ’ he took part in at least eight murders . |