Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , of course , if the government did possess an important informational advantage there would be a strong incentive for the private sector to obtain the same information , so one might expect the advantage to be gradually eroded . |
| 2 | At first sight it might be quite reasonable for the Labour party to employ the same approach to its political strategy . |
| 3 | Next , he says , SBUs may well form alliances outside the corporate group to obtain the same benefits as could be obtained by internal linkages while retaining more control over their situation . |
| 4 | I was born and grew up in Britain , I can appreciate the constant pressure to look the same , dress the same , forget your difference . |
| 5 | Basically this involves using the right foot to draw the ball into the post from the left side of the field and the left foot to do the same from the right side . |
| 6 | The annual celebration of the ‘ World day of the Sick ’ , therefore , has the manifest purpose of making the People of God and , as a consequence , the many Catholic health care institutions and civil society itself , more aware of the necessity of ensuring the best possible care for the infirm ; of helping the sick person to make the most of suffering , on the human level , but most of all on the supernatural one ; of especially helping the dioceses , Christian communities and religious families to be involved in the health care of apostolate ; of enhancing the ever more valuable commitment of volunteers ; or reminding people of the importance of the spiritual and moral training of health care workers , and last of all of creating a better understanding of the importance of religious care for the sick among diocesan and religious priests , as well as among those who live and work at the side of the person in pain . |
| 7 | So the welcome opportunity to name the same line-up and two substitutes gives the City boss hope against a side one point and two places beneath them , but with two games in hand . |
| 8 | Would he ask his right honourable friend to press the Prime Minister to exercise the same restraint over the United Kingdom particularly Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | Western languages may use puns or play on similar-sounding words , but there are few , if any , direct equivalents to the Chinese tendency to give the same symbolic meaning to an object and a quality whose names sound the same . |
| 10 | ‘ We will continue … to pursue steadily the path of co-operation with China and we look to the Chinese side to do the same . |
| 11 | The party behind , in another special , paid their engineer well enough to drive into the rear coach and smash it — they being rivals with the stranded party to serve the same area with a new railway . |
| 12 | The success of Blind Faith 's concert encouraged the Rolling Stones to try the same trick , and , come 5 July , three days after the death of the band 's Brian Jones , Jagger et al. |
| 13 | Tony Smith claims that we apply a double standard to orthodox and alternative medicine , using published studies in the medical literature to denounce the former while relying largely on anecdotal evidence to promote the latter . |
| 14 | For years British families have revelled in fleeting visits to the Continental sea-ports to make the most of cheap supplies . |
| 15 | Smith went on Ireland 's recent tour of North America and the stand-off is now hoping to gain selection for Leinster in a push for a place in the Irish side to face the All Blacks next month . |
| 16 | Nowadays , of course , unless you have a raging open fire to hand , the only way to get the same responsiveness is with a gas hob . |
| 17 | It was that it was unfair for the single-person household to pay the same as the household with two , three , four or five members . |
| 18 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 19 | But what are the chances of having the financial security to make the most of retirement ? |
| 20 | This allows the new DC to have the same information as the aborted one and may be edited thereafter to suit the new DC . |
| 21 | From the noise and excitement of London 's West End to the savage beauty of the Scottish Highlands , Spotlight on Britain enables your students to get off the main roads to explore the many regions that give Britain its unique character . |