Example sentences of "[vb base] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This combination of specimens could be recognized either by grouping them into a single genus or into a tribe , and on present evidence I favour the latter alternative and suggest the Afropithecini as a suitable name . |
| 2 | If you do n't have all the ingredients for the curry sauce , you could add a can of prepared curry sauce to the beef and chopped vegetables and simmer the same way . |
| 3 | If you lose the same amount of money for a second year you 're down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency . |
| 4 | At the flops , the bums all eat the same thing . |
| 5 | All the diners eat the same feast which takes Khai Eng and Rex a day and a half to prepare . |
| 6 | Genetic differences may mean that although we eat the same diet , the level of cholesterol in your blood may be , say , 200 mg/100 ml ( 5–17 mmol/litre ) while mine is 300 mg/mI ( 7–76 mmol/l ) , giving me more than twice your risk of a heart attack . |
| 7 | saying at this mediterranean diet that the more fruit and veg you eat the less chance you 've got of heart disease and cancer |
| 8 | Certain later texts , mostly of a non-literary kind , display the same phenomenon . |
| 9 | This section is concerned with the introduction and application of certain particularly useful types of equivalent circuit that display the same form of linear small-signal response as any nonlinear four-terminal network . |
| 10 | Anyway , what about Sam , who takes the Ring but hands it back with only momentary delay , Pippin and Merry , who show no desire for it at all , Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli , who display the same indifference without the excuse of ignorance , and Boromir 's brother Faramir , who realises the Ring is in his power but refuses to take it , with no more sign of mental turmoil than a ‘ strange smile ’ and a glint in the eye ? |
| 11 | His later artistic inventions display the same fascination with the possibilities of getting inside the skin of another era . |
| 12 | Repeat the same exercise , holding your right arm below the elbow by stretching over your left arm . |
| 13 | Repeat the same procedure with each gate in turn . |
| 14 | If no changes occur then repeat the same remedy and wait again . |
| 15 | always like , quite when they re repeat the same thing the week after . |
| 16 | We have heard the Minister repeat the same argument in response to several interventions , and there seem to be two strands running through it : one of principle and one of administration . |
| 17 | for two weeks switching over after two weeks and repeat the same process , at the same time the other two groups will be doing personal statements . |
| 18 | A researcher reports a particular result , and to verify it other scientists repeat the same experiment in their own labs . |
| 19 | Repeat the same movement again just below the bone , pressing lightly upwards ( see Fig. 15 ) . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) Return to the starting position and repeat the same movement on the opposite side . |
| 21 | Flagstad gave the songs their première , so it 's intriguing to hear her successor bring the same kind of broad sweep , sincerity of purpose and rewarding breath-control to them . |
| 22 | ‘ You may have joined Neighbourhood Watch at home ; bring the same vigilance to work and help make Park Royal more secure . |
| 23 | The Tongans , meanwhile , bring the same squad to Hong Kong as performed in Fiji , where their best result was a 14-12 win against Australia . |
| 24 | If farms remain the same size as now ( 1 . |
| 25 | and that each remain the same thing although being described by a variety of different er descriptions . |
| 26 | Thus a program was written which , given a suggested set of grade boundaries , would evaluate their effects in terms of : ( i ) the numbers of staff by " before " and " after " grade ; ( ii ) the overall percentage upgrading and downgrading ; ( iii ) the percentage changes by grade ( that is the percentage of staff in each " before " grade who are upgraded , who remain the same grade and who are downgraded ) . |
| 27 | To my great surprise , I found that in all types of managerial organization in many different countries over 35 years , people in roles at the same time span experience the same weight of responsibility and declare the same level of pay to be fair , regardless of their occupation or actual pay . |
| 28 | Establish that , and you can not in fairness deny the same right to wives at home with children , be their husbands company directors or on the dole themselves . |
| 29 | And because I fear that that is the position , I can not help but feel that before long we will have yet another attempt to amend Act seventeen , nineteen sixty three and that we will go round the circuit , the same circuit once again with I fear the same result . |
| 30 | My father in his retirement has become a computer hobbyist , upgrading constantly , browsing through those 500-page magazines which sell the same computer in different boxes , assembled by underpaid and exploited single mothers in the Midlands . |