Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the aim of investigating terraces is to determine as accurately as possible former base levels , the back of marine terraces ( E on Fig. 9.18 ) should be measured as this approximates to the former high tide level , but the front of river terraces ( F on Fig. 9.18 ) is the closest approximation to the level of the centre of the old valley floor which was graded to high tide level . |
| 2 | Unless both parties successfully anticipate inflation by fixing the terms of loans in such a way as to compensate for inflation , the lenders find that the real value of their loans declines , and the borrowers find that the real value of their debts declines to the same extent . |
| 3 | Clearly it is unreasonable to assume that being one standard deviation above the mean in terms of any indicator corresponds to the same amount of deprivation . |
| 4 | These must then be combined to generate an interferogram in which each point corresponds to the same time-delay after the flash . |
| 5 | A pre-tax income OA on the horizontal axis corresponds to the same post-tax income OA on the vertical axis . |
| 6 | The 98th round succumbs to the same reasoning , and so on back . |
| 7 | This Sri Lankan Buddhist priest confronts an image of the Buddha hoping to find , through contemplation , answers to the many mysteries humanity may never find the answer to . |
| 8 | The comment that all of this prompts is first , that it amounts to no more than the well-understood case for good personnel management in conventionally organised manufacturing or service industry . |
| 9 | The subsection creates an obligation to consult the judiciary , not to be governed by their opinion , which amounts to no more than advice . |
| 10 | This " combination " which effectively amounts to no more than the adjective itself is then linked by explicit assignment to the entity of the subject . |
| 11 | If the telephone conversation amounts to no more than an inquiry or preliminary discussion , it may be that no contract is made then . |
| 12 | But evidence really amounts to no more than expression of the opinion by a particular practitioner of what he thinks that he would have done if he had been paid hypothetically without the benefit of hindsight the position of the defendant , with a little while the evidence of the witness is due , what in the matter of law the solicitor 's duty was in the particular circumstances of the case , I should have thought , being a solicitor the very question which the functions , to decide . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I 'm a scientist , but it amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It amounts to the same thing , surely ! ’ |
| 15 | Any measure based on ratios ( or , what amounts to the same thing , differences in logs ) is to be preferred . |
| 16 | If you can afford a magic standard then you can use this to increase the leadership or add to your combat result which amounts to the same thing for the all important break test . |
| 17 | Users often report experiencing the sort of twisted non-Euclidian dimensions associated with the Old Ones , so it 's reasonable to assume that this is how Mait made contact with them , or with whatever race memory remains of them , which amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 18 | This last point does not necessarily mean that you have to be using a page description language but , for the moment at least , it amounts to the same thing . |
| 19 | Pure democracy has never worked : it works in a moderated form where there is a literacy qualification , or a property-owning qualification — which usually amounts to the same thing — and the voter is capable of making an informed judgement . |
| 20 | The lack of either standard or system amounts to the same thing . |
| 21 | The reason why ( 6 ) is perceived as if it was assignment is that the indefinitizing effect of the determiner means that the hearer is granted no more about the entity in post-copular position than : ( a ) The properties denoted by the noun used ; ( b ) The fact that it is an entity ; but the latter fact has already been given by the subject noun phrase ; hence the effect , with such a determiner , amounts to the same thing , in practice ( but not in terms of intensional pattern ) , as simple assignment . |
| 22 | Readers usually know something about authors whose books they have read , and even if they don " t know anything , it is natural to imagine an author figure , which amounts to the same thing . |
| 23 | Yet witnesses to the latter part of the night 's events heard him talking clearly to a policeman . |
| 24 | It usually leads to a few cracked paving stones , ’ he said . |
| 25 | In such cases the addition of organic matter , slag , or lime will be essential if the farming system is to be maintained without a drastic drop in fertility and production — or the breakdown of soil structure which ultimately leads to the same thing . |
| 26 | My own personal experience leads to the same conclusion as on the rotation issue . |
| 27 | We now prove generally Theorem 2.7.7 ( The Generalised Associative Law ) If ρ is an associative binary operation on the set A then every way of evaluating the product of the ordered n-tuple of elements unc of A taken in that order leads to the same result . |
| 28 | Show that this leads to the same behaviour in steady state as the extreme classical assumption . |
| 29 | Further on the Brook splits , and one tributary leads to the few remnants of what was Upper Ley Mill . |
| 30 | and then it gets to the same value again |