Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 After the RKO contract expired the few unmarried Girls came home .
2 The verb find follows the same pattern as the verbs of perception in its use with the infinitive .
3 Sydney : Continued activity in the banking sector helped the All Ordinaries index to close 7.4 points higher at 1,743.4 .
4 When completed use the tracing paper to transfer the same drawing onto the second support .
5 The side return has the same going as the front treads , which increases the amount of hardcore needed , but you do not have to build side walls or strings , so you save on material there .
6 ‘ So you see , what with the Church never keeping adequate records and relying on the personal network all the time and the patronage system doing the same but relying on a different network , we 're all rather in the dark . ’
7 The currency deal expired in July ; if the exchange rate remained the same , Virgin would be obliged to pay £6m , to make up the difference .
8 The Audit Commission performs the same functions as far as local authorities and the National Health Service are concerned , in England and Wales .
9 The hall clock struck the half hour , the three-quarter , two o'clock , and still she sat .
10 He stated , however , that if conditions in Japan at the time of the Peace Treaty remained the same as at present , he thought that it would be necessary for a number of Allied troops
11 In the end the Law Society adopted the latter course .
12 The reception committee of mothers was always waiting , partly out of maternal duty , but mostly because those ten minutes on the village green filled the same gossiping function as ten minutes at the village pump had for earlier generations .
13 Iraq , it said , would not yield before arrogance and terrorism , and called upon the Security Council to use the same criterion for dealing with all the problems of the region .
14 Why , then , has the body plan remained the same when the way of life has changed ?
15 The wine label repeated the same words in a floridly ornate script overprinted on a picture , which Sabine recognised instantly .
16 The top of the leader board remained the same after round two .
17 The journal Samizdat started the same year and has followed a similar line .
18 The diesel engine faces the same problem as many middle aged executives — it needs to lose weight .
19 If we now increase the current in the opposite direction B will decrease further reaching zero at R , and negative saturation at S. The other half of the curve STUP displays the same behaviour .
20 Potter 's earlier production The Singing Detective shared the same provenance .
21 Assuming that the service life stays the same , the charge to the p&l account for the year ending 31 March 1993 would be £53m ( £50 + £30/10 ) and the prepayment in the balance sheet at that date would be £27m ( £50m — £53 + £30 ) .
22 This means that the initial state of the universe would have to have had exactly the same temperature everywhere in order to account for the fact that the microwave background has the same temperature in every direction we look .
23 In all cases , the challenge to the documentation specialist remains the same : how to do justice to the objects in order to create an accurate and sufficiently detailed record of the object to allow it to be identified with confidence .
24 The outcome , however , was unchanged ; the compromise clause meeting the same fate as the amendment suspending the death penalty , being carried in the Commons , but again defeated in the Lords .
25 For the rest Alliance retained the same number of seats with two changes within their number , and SDLP lost two seats .
26 The banister of the back staircase has the same pattern as the glazing bars of a glass-fronted cabinet Lutyens designed for his own house .
27 This meant that the 5% to 10% cuts in ski length that people took were compensated by increases in width — the surface area stayed the same .
28 You can then compare your data items with that frame , noting if the substitution item has the same or different pitch as the word in the frame you are comparing with .
29 The Doom Diver has the same profile as an ordinary Goblin .
30 ( 1981 ) have employed the game model to do the same .
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