Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waited 2 ½ hours to see the same official . |
| 2 | It is for schools to embrace the same approach for disruptive pupils . |
| 3 | This enables organizations to continue the same system with salary increases , titles , superior offices and furnishings , cars , expense allowances , stock options , etc. , which are , after all , only more sophisticated examples of the process which began with the child 's first jellybean . |
| 4 | Manufacturers do n't want computers to suffer the same fate as educational TV — a lot of promise but precious little worthwhile application . |
| 5 | The question before me today is whether Parliament , in using similar language in section 265 , intended those words to bear the same meaning as those given to them by the House of Lords under the Act of 1914 . |
| 6 | Promotional activity stresses safety , speed and comfort ( by direct comparison with the use of cars to cover the same type of journey ) , and the central location of termini ( compared with the relative isolation of airports ) . |
| 7 | In the evening they constructed a bonfire outside , where they drank the healths of James II and his son , forcing passers-by to do the same , and offering insults to those who refused . |
| 8 | This welcomed Soviet completion , in compliance with the 1988 Geneva agreements , of the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan in February 1989 [ see pp. 36448-50 ] and called on all parties to respect the latter scrupulously . |
| 9 | So anglers need larger weights to do the same job — which could distract the fish . |
| 10 | Like their forebears , they chose subjects to illustrate the many facets of village life . |
| 11 | there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) . |
| 12 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 13 | It then takes up to 15 stages of filtration and other methods to separate the few parts per million of useful protein . |
| 14 | Accell/SQL allows both Unix and Windows clients to share the same database , with Unix clients supporting Motif , Open Look , or just plain character interfaces , and the Windows version supports Microsoft Corp 's Dynamic Data Exchange mechanism for applications integration . |
| 15 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 16 | Er okay , different words to describe the same and indeed they did n't take out of any fund , but they achieved the same end result . |
| 17 | I think members of our beleaguered police force would be thrilled if they could find seven parties to witness the same event . ’ |
| 18 | Other researchers have used different labels to describe the same distinction , for example , control , manoeuvring and strategical levels ( e.g. Janssen , 1979 ; Verwey , 1990 ) . |
| 19 | Being now unfit to work , he was left to spend his time as he pleased , and he devoted himself to reading , selling scraps of old iron and painting children 's books and shop labels to raise the few pence needed to buy the books . |
| 20 | MP Kevin McNamara wants wild animals to have the same protection as domestic pets but pro-hunters say if the sport 's outlawed it will affect rural jobs and the conservation of the countryside.LLewela Bailey reports . |
| 21 | A more adventurous statesman , or one less determined to hang on to power , might have acted more quickly or taken more radical steps to achieve the same goal . |
| 22 | Do all parties use the same words to mean the same thing ( eg do management accounts include a balance sheet or cash flow statement ) ? |
| 23 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |
| 24 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 25 | The aim of the competition is to encourage artists to explore the many creative opportunities offered by the new Tinted Bockingford range . |
| 26 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects exports to reach the same level as imports . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The A.896 road through the pass remains narrow with passing places , although a few parking spaces have been cut out of the verges to accommodate the many car owners who come to walk . |
| 29 | A popular means of saving costs is to reduce the work-force and hire outside contractors to perform the same duties . |
| 30 | Using the lace carriage , you will realise that you can only transfer the stitches in one direction at a time in any given movement and to overcome this , you can move the lace carriage and transfer stitches in two more consecutive movements to obtain the same effect . |