Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 2 | Anemones tend to dribble a little water from their centres if you press them . |
| 3 | Brown Owl needs to lose a few feathers for the summer |
| 4 | TWO scientists from Stirling University expect to shed a few tears at tonight 's United Kingdom premiere of a Hollywood film that tells the extraordinary story of Augusto and Michaela Odone 's love for their son Lorenzo . |
| 5 | Now Sir Colin has to spread the same degree of charm throughout BA 's expanding empire . |
| 6 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 7 | When an idea starts , perhaps only a slogan or a headline will be produced , but in the end the writer is going to have to write all the words in the ad ( though most clients tend to write a few themselves , sometimes over the agency 's dead body ) . |
| 8 | It is widely believed that the conservatism of the farm worker and his attachment to traditional styles obliged manufacturers to continue to produce the same wide range of designs as had been produced by local smiths in the pre-industrial period . |
| 9 | The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents . |
| 10 | Sydney : Concern about the performance of News Corporation following a warning by Rupert Murdoch helped to pull the All Ordinaries index down 17.5 points to 1,755.8 , the day 's low . |
| 11 | Here , ants and fungi race to make the most of good , organic matter and the rotting trunks themselves play host to an assortment of bright green epiphytes . |
| 12 | When they had left , Julia wondered whether to say anything or not , but David seemed to have no such inhibitions . |
| 13 | The beautiful eyes seemed to have the same dark depths as those of her brother but they did not have his sharp , probing gaze . |
| 14 | At the top end there are the programs that seek to reproduce the environment found within a traditional art studio ; PageMaker , XPress and the now defunct Harvard Professional Publisher most closely fit this category , while products such as Ventura seek to provide the same typographic quality through a stylesheet and coded tags so appealing to the business user who needs an easily produced document which follows a common format . |
| 15 | TI intends to do the same with the 75MHz dual SuperSparcs next year . |
| 16 | ‘ Life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness ’ and ‘ Liberty , equality , fraternity ’ were rallying-cries guaranteed to provide a few sleepless nights for many an English gentleman . |
| 17 | This would include commitments by industrialized countries to cut carbon dioxide emissions , and to provide assistance to third-world states to do the same . |
| 18 | Utilisation can be twice as high and produces a double benefit : ( i ) lower costs per hour , and ( ii ) fewer aircraft needed to service the same sales volume . |
| 19 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 20 | Why How did your brothers manage to do the same job as he did ? |
| 21 | I had suggested all cars would inevitably look the same , as rival designers struggled to meet the same constraints dictated by safety requirements and ever-better fuel economy . |
| 22 | Amidst the unhilarious mayhem , a bespectacled and wide-eyed Dustin managed to time a few gags well , but became swamped by the strained and desperate elements of the ridiculous plot . |
| 23 | This study aimed to use the same methods to examine anorectal function in 23 patients with complete supraconal spinal cord lesions and to determinate the relationship between the site of the lesion and the existence of inconsistent phenomena . |
| 24 | There is some repetition as the authors backtrack to report the same developments from different points of view and new characters are introduced ; the detailed mathematical discussions do become daunting for the non-specialist reader . |
| 25 | Whereas European countries tended to acquire public ownership of the assets of natural monopolies , the United States preferred to handle the same problems through public regulation of industries whose assets were left in private ownership . |
| 26 | America 's airlines will not welcome another foreign rival trying to do the same — especially a state-owned carrier . |
| 27 | The new instrument seeks to skin the same cat but in a slightly different way . |
| 28 | The government 's Job Training Programme seeks to tackle the latter . |
| 29 | He was reminded of something he had read somewhere : that it was seldom wise to return to any former haunt hoping to recapture the same pleasure it had first given , because it was sure to be different and disappointing . |
| 30 | ‘ Those who still have homes have to take no more than a suitcase each . |