Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing more ‘ automatic ’ than the perfect housewife , mechanically pursuing the same routine day in and day out . |
| 2 | Rather like the systems employed by general practitioners , there are advantages and disadvantages to both methods , with patients perhaps preferring the former system and being prepared to put up with a long delay once in the clinic to a worried wait of two or three days . |
| 3 | It is beyond chance that all of these species also happen to be animals ; plants , perhaps inhabiting the same regions as these animals , have disappeared without even the briefest of epitaphs . |
| 4 | ‘ That congregational aspect — which is a pretty Presbyterian word and I quite like the connotation — of the emotional effect of things happening to people while they 're gathered together , that was the big thing in the early acid clubs , that feeling that you were in a place with 200 people all going the same way as you , all into being there , enjoying being in this mass of people … … |
| 5 | Grandson Richard , 39 , was in a crush of people all heading the same way . |
| 6 | He said hardly anything , I knew he really did n't want to be with us ( with Caroline ) but he 'd caught us up ; he ca n't have spotted from behind who we were , he was obviously going the same way . |
| 7 | At school I did English and Art , and looked at theatre design in art — it was all pointing the same way , really . |
| 8 | I recently read Stacey 's study of the council , published with its blessing and undertaken by the same means of ‘ participant observation , ’ albeit not apparently requiring the same degree of deception . |
| 9 | As [ an ] example of such measures , all having the same effect — of keeping subjects perpetually at work and in poverty — we may mention the pyramids of Egypt … |
| 10 | Here and there one may find a row of houses all having the same supply , but very often two adjacent houses are supplied differently . |
| 11 | 4 The same piece of string , 36cm long , can be pulled in to a lot of different rectangles all having the same perimeter , but different areas . |
| 12 | So that , no matter what they do , they are more or less giving the same performance each time . |
| 13 | What I find horrible is that there are so many organisations or or places all over Great Britain , they 're all doing the same sort of tests ! |
| 14 | All doing the same thing with all with the same earning potential . |
| 15 | Look , we 're all doing the same thing at different |
| 16 | By constantly making the same mistake there is the danger that you are reinforcing and learning how to make the error rather than correcting it . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose we 'll be all thinking the same thing tonight , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Emily was obviously thinking the same thing . |
| 19 | as if he could arrest their development at that stage , and set them working like articulated models in a shop window , mechanically repeating the same gestures — Mrs Mallory always pouring out a cup of tea with a warm , motherly smile ; Mr Mallory always easing himself blissfully into his chair ; Patricia always reaching for the aspirins with womanly resignation , Clare always shyly yielding to the one good-night embrace … |
| 20 | However , the grain of this behavioural notation is unbelievably coarse and one is often surprised by the extent to which two performances of the same written utterance can differ — even when the actors in question are apparently following the same instruction with respect to intonation , facial expression or manual gesture . |
| 21 | They are merely reproducing the same wistfulness and dreamlike melodies of their first album . |
| 22 | Rates of progress are erratic : the transition from one idea to another may be accomplished by one pupil in a matter of minutes , whilst another will take months apparently covering the same ground . |
| 23 | This produces the stress of tiring ambulance journeys , the long wait in the clinic and not seeing the same staff at each visit . |
| 24 | When the other industry ( meals ) is untaxed and in competitive equilibrium , we showed in the last section that the marginal cost of producing films is exactly the value of the marginal utility sacrificed by not using the same resources to produce more meals . |
| 25 | I 'm sure those fucking Officers are not eating the same crap as we are . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm just thinking now that er we changed lots of things , the heads and things of that nature so it was If it 's just producing the same cage |
| 27 | Now they 're not applying the same rules and regulations in Savac and Sarouac , it 's the island peninsular , maybe their reaction to the Friends of the Earth is symptomatic of a certain degree of bad conscience that they have with the , with the other two . |
| 28 | Father Morrow said he would be shortly lodging the same application at Keighley County Court in the Liverpool fan 's home town . |
| 29 | Organic farmers build up natural soil fertility by crop rotation — not growing the same crop on any land two years running — and by using farmyard manure and natural composts . |
| 30 | Many articles have appeared in the amateur radio press and elsewhere describing the many aspects of propagation and giving more detailed information on the theory of and effects of solar radiation on communications systems . |