Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shell plays the same role for a snail as the stone house does for a caddis larva . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The further out from York the new settlement goes the less self contained it will be , the more the tendency will be for travel into the city , which is the main service centre to be car based . |
| 4 | A proportionate tax distributes these burdens as a ratio of income : each taxpayer contributes the same proportion of income in tax . |
| 5 | The girl 's bike has the same specification as the boy 's but comes with mudguards and a carrier at the back . |
| 6 | The Mazda text has the same feel of awkwardness and lack of orientation about it as Halliday 's constructed example . |
| 7 | Therefore , since the cost reduction has the same effect as the price reduction but has other effects in addition , it is more worthwhile to strive after , if it is equally easy to obtain . " |
| 8 | Honey contains some sucrose as well as glucose and fructose ; 1 teaspoon of honey has the same amount of calories as one teaspoon of sucrose . |
| 9 | Almost always considered secondary to his poetry , Masefield 's fiction has the same basic theme , man 's search for beauty — in nature , in ideas and , often , in the ideal of womanhood . |
| 10 | This category has the least security , but the greatest freedom of manoeuvre . |
| 11 | The board has the same switches on it as I have on the rack , so if Bryan presses the board they light up for me too , so I can see what he 's got on . |
| 12 | Let us now make the question more precise , and ask whether the experience has the same effect at any time , or whether there are particular ‘ sensitive periods ’ at which it will be more influential than at others . |
| 13 | But still it is very carefully structured with a setting verse , a narrative verse and finishing off with a reflective verse and 10 syllables in each line and Futility has the same feeling of careful planning and construction . |
| 14 | The time-averaged spectrum has the same form as equation ( 1 ) , but with a normalization of . |
| 15 | These Lasius fuliginosus are walking along two experimental trails : the bottom trail has constant concentration ; the concentration of the top trail starts the same as the bottom one but gradually decreases . |
| 16 | ‘ Every club plays the same , banging it upfield . ’ |
| 17 | Since the nucleus of each cell contains the same genetic information , it is the reciprocal communication between nucleus and cytoplasm during development that determines which proteins are made . |
| 18 | A sick horse has the same outline , and often the same slack mouth ; it may by only the slight tension around the nostril , or an unusual lack of interest in life , that indicate that anything is amiss . |
| 19 | ‘ Mind you , the other side has the same problem , ’ Dickinson said . |
| 20 | As the human mind matures the same basic insights will impose themselves on all . |
| 21 | Every cell has the same genetic constitution and some genes are switched on and off as the cell develops and rolls down the landscape . |
| 22 | Fruit juices are high in fructose , which weight for weight has the same calories as sucrose ( ordinary sugar ) . |
| 23 | This equation has the same structure as that postulated for player A's strategy : the optimal is linear in z . |
| 24 | Yet this appears of no practical importance here , for there is no reason to suppose that the applicant has the least objection to the Director asking him questions so long as ( in line with the cautions already administered ) he does not have to answer . |
| 25 | The Offset represents the weird and wonderful , and at first glance has the same unsettling effect as an optical illusion . |
| 26 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 27 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 28 | The second vote has the same unitary value for every voter : its potential does not vary with the magnitude of the constituency in which it is used . |
| 29 | The search has the same prospect of satisfaction or frustration as any other purposive activity . |
| 30 | Bottle-wrack looks the same and grows in the same straggly way . |