Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ania Loomba puts it , in relation to colonialist studies , ‘ the neglect of histories surrounding native insubordination either devalues or romanticises the latter , or worse , tends to read colonised subjects through linguistic or psychoanalytic theories which , for some of us at least , remain suspiciously and problematically shot through with ethnocentric assumptions whose transfer to all subalterns is unacceptable ’ ( ‘ Overworlding ’ , cited from manuscript ) . |
| 2 | moved and seconded must be accepted by the Chairman , unless it is frivolous or illegal , or covers the same ground as a motion on which a decision has already been taken in the same meeting . |
| 3 | Assume the dividend and divisor are integral , in two 's complement representation , For definiteness , assume that the remainder is zero or has the same sign as the dividend ( see Stein and Munro 1971 , Chapter 6 for more details ) . |
| 4 | constitute a demonstration that an aversive CS will interfere with further ( appetitive ) conditioning , whether the context is changed or stays the same . |
| 5 | No one else in the world has had your experience of life , sees the world through your eyes or treads the same path through life ‘ towards the light of your particular guiding star ’ ( this is described in a rather dull way as ‘ motivation ’ ) . |
| 6 | Do you want to add anything to that Mr , or does the same point apply ? |
| 7 | One of the most important aspects of domestic security , yet one that receives the least attention , is that of key security . |
| 8 | The average adult spends up to 300 hours a year in the bathroom , yet surprisingly , it 's often the room that receives the least attention . |
| 9 | You could see a band that plays the same type of music as us on TOTP but they would n't look like us … |
| 10 | The plan that produces the least CO 2 costs less than simply letting market forces prevail , because its high level of energy efficiency saves enough money to pay for the investment needed to switch to biomass production . |
| 11 | Non-linearity is in fact also needed to provide the coupling between the x- and y-motions that produces the latter . |
| 12 | But of the colours we 've got here in this list purple is the one that has the most impact , followed by blue |
| 13 | The New York Times 's Vincent Canby wrote : ‘ There is nothing obviously glossy in Midnight Cowboy , but it contains a lot of superior laughter that has the same softening effect , ’ yet he found the central relationship was ‘ as honest and affecting as anything you 're likely to see in a movie , and more than compensates for those moments when the film seems to be exploiting its cheap , gaudy locale as might the director of a sight-seeing bus cruising through West 42nd Street and Greenwich Village ’ . |
| 14 | A part or organ in one animal that has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal ’ ( 1843 ) ; ( on late nineteenth century biology ) — ‘ Morphology was studied because it was the material believed to be the most favourable for elucidation of the problems of evolution , and we all thought that in embryology the quintessence of morphological truth was most palpably presented ’ ( 1922 ) ; ( on developmental constraint ) — ‘ But if organisation and the laws of development exclude some lines of variation and favour others , there is certainly nothing supernatural in this , and nothing which is incompatible with natural selection ’ ( 1919 ) . |
| 15 | An anaphor is a word , phrase or ellipsis that has the same meaning as a previous word or phrase in a text , for example a third person pronoun or a verbal ellipsis ( eg Sarah likes burgundy , and Sally , claret ) . |
| 16 | Any activity that causes the same physical emotional feelings as the particular addictive behaviour would be best avoided . |
| 17 | Concern about the disease has also been strengthened by reports of the death of a British dairy farmer from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease , a rare dementia in humans that causes the same kind of brain damage as BSE . |
| 18 | It seems that this is the method of connection that causes the most confusion , and the correct way of connecting the secondary windings is not really the obvious one . |
| 19 | Dinner is probably the meal that causes the most problems to the dieter . |
| 20 | Alternatively , the teacher may take the initiative : ‘ Can you find one that looks the same as this one ? |
| 21 | The idea is that a service representative talking to a customer on the phone will be able to view a document on the screen that looks the same as the printed document the customer has . |
| 22 | And then there is , of course , the photograph of Benn accompanying the article , with a caption that quotes the same statement . |
| 23 | Instead of saying , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing , ’ they might rush to the wardrobe and put on a T-shirt that says the same thing . |
| 24 | For instance , if a couple opted for a full surrogacy arrangement , they could have a baby that bears the same genetic relationship to them as do children conceived in the normal way , while someone else copes with the inconvenience of pregnancy and birth . |
| 25 | Er , er , the entry that uses the most memory is er , a formula . |
| 26 | Computer models show that the best way of coming up with an inflationary universe that shows the same degree of clumpiness as the real one is to use dark matter that is ‘ cold ’ . |
| 27 | So once you know what it means it helps a little bit and can you think of a word that ends the same as that ? |
| 28 | Reference is made to the unconstructive nature of housework tasks , to the emotionally frustrating sense of being on a treadmill that requires the same action to be repeated again and again ; |
| 29 | At the other extreme , a poll tax that takes the same amount from everyone will keep the same absolute difference between the rewards in one job and the next . |
| 30 | It is accurately spelled out but the wrong word ; it is a homonym or more technically a homophone , i.e. a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently , e.g. hair — hare ; threw — through . |