Example sentences of "[vb base] the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if these animals eat the same restricted amount every day , they still grow more rapidly in the summer than in the winter . |
| 2 | Scientists believe human laughter has an evolutionary origin and is linked with monkeys who grin and display the same shoulder-shaking signs . |
| 3 | The constancy of the aggregate parameters rests either on the assumption that individual wealth shares are constant or on the assumption that all investors perceive the same expected returns and variance covariance matrix of returns and exhibit the same degree of absolute risk aversion . |
| 4 | The boredom was broken only by bayoneting rats , bailing more water out of the trench or having to listen to Tommy repeat the same old melodies on a now rusty mouth-organ . |
| 5 | By comparison , impersonal descriptive references lack the same individuating force and are frequently ambiguous and misleading . |
| 6 | In additions to classifying specific weaving centres or tribes , the term may also be used in a broader sense to encompass any collection of tribes or villages which combine the same ethnic origins , or general location , with an underlying uniformity in their rugs . |
| 7 | Make the latter aware of your intention to concentrate on these tasks , if necessary , at the expense of other intrusions . |
| 8 | After all , you make the same unrealistic demands on me sometimes , and I 'm not perfect either — only I 've never confronted you with the unreasonableness of it all . ’ |
| 9 | Why should the people of Liverpool have to pay for the self-inflicted deficits of their local council , and why should the people of Lothian suffer the same dismal experience ? |
| 10 | In attempting to achieve this goal , most of the techniques currently used involve the same four essential steps which are : |
| 11 | They involve the same exfoliating , cleansing , toning and moisturising routines as facials . |
| 12 | This was considered revolutionary at the time it was written ( 1955 ) , but case study after case study elsewhere in the country now suggest the same basic pattern of large estates . |
| 13 | AMERICAN funds provide the few bright features in The Daily Telegraph/Micropal Personal Equity Plan Guide which otherwise shows continued underperformance by share-based investments this month . |
| 14 | As members of one of the world 's elite fighting forces , they have to gain the coveted green beret and undergo the same rigorous selection and training exercises as all other Royal Marines . |
| 15 | Yet the two presidents occupy the same hierarchical layer , have similar authority , and take home comparable salaries . |
| 16 | On this issue , the ‘ traditionalists ’ , the multiculturalists and antiracists occupy the same epistemological terrain . |
| 17 | Thus the 1927 study by Wentworth & Apfel 237 , and the 1931 study by Gross & Woodford 86 , both of which listed the journals most frequently used by American geologists , contain relatively small numbers of journals which still occupy the same high standing in the profession today . |
| 18 | Thus the 1927 study by Wentworth & Apfel , and the 1931 study by Gross & Woodford , both of which listed the journals most frequently used by American geologists , contain relatively small numbers of journals which still occupy the same high standing in the profession today . |
| 19 | Not all dichotic listening experiments tap the same psychological operations which may well differ in the extent of their underlying cerebral lateralisation . |
| 20 | We each want the same same thing . |
| 21 | Whilst this situation has changed in recent years , it will only be when local female populations attain the same educational standard as their male counter-parts and take a key role in management decisions that substantial progress will be made . |
| 22 | Similar experiments with factory farmed chickens and ducks reveal the same swift reversion to nature . |
| 23 | Universality refers to the fact that totally different systems can exhibit the same route to chaos — the same not just in that they show the same broad features , but very closely the same including quantitative details . |
| 24 | Several statues of women in the peplos show the same unbroken or scarcely broken skirt . |
| 25 | Sky have a roundup on Sunday , where they basically show the same 3 featured matches as MOTD , but generally have different highlights . |
| 26 | His proper names show the same self-conscious striving for a romantic atmosphere . |
| 27 | Thus the wing of a bat and the paddle of a porpoise are homologous because they show the same underlying pattern of bones typical of a mammalian forelimb . |
| 28 | Banks are busily designing privately placed securities that exploit the many available tax loopholes . |
| 29 | used to get one shoe and a ta , in the middle so that , so that cut the half new one |
| 30 | The difference between pooling and no pooling is illustrated below for two firms ( A and B ) , both of which purchase the same two capital assets ( Y and Z ) over consecutive years , but where firm B elects to pool the assets whereas firm A does not : |