Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [to-vb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The so-called modern values bring about a convergence of culture through improved mass communications , the elites of Third World countries come to share the same culture as those in the industrialised world . |
| 7 | All of the ways in which the design of the Williamson scheme differ from the design of the ERM serve to make the former more durable — largely , it must be admitted , by making it less ambitious . |
| 8 | Adjectives seem to need the same rule , to produce stress patterns such |
| 9 | It can only be hoped that the newly aggressive financial players of the Thatcher era manage to avoid the same errors . |
| 10 | Wild animals tend to hide away when they fall ill or are injured , and those in captivity try to do the same , but it 's almost impossible for them . |
| 11 | The Labour government will work within the G7 and the European Community to win support for a New Marshall Plan to assist the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and of the ex-Soviet Union . |
| 12 | The trouble is that many other firms want to do the same , so the profits of the business will probably be lower by then . |
| 13 | But both firms happen to have the same dividends and the same share price , so that the net and gross dividend yields are the same at 5.31 and 7.08 per cent respectively . |
| 14 | Most importantly , the people who will have to implement the community care reforms seem to share the same vision and , despite certain reservations , the same enthusiasm . |
| 15 | same sort of direction continue to do the same sort of things . |
| 16 | Crews and sponsors tend to frequent the same restaurants , pubs and hotels . |
| 17 | The effect of this when it is accepted is very far reaching because the more an idea is tested the more it is validated and criticism becomes not a threat but an opportunity to strengthen the idea ; and what is more important scientists cease to have the same proprietorial attitude towards in idea . |
| 18 | In each lexical domain , children appear to make the same assumption : newly acquired words contrast with those already known . |
| 19 | After pouring energy into factory automation the inventive Japanese want to do the same for people 's houses and flats . |
| 20 | one of the two flashy men-about-town , professing intimate acquaintance with all sorts of illustrious personages ( ‘ even the Blood Royal ran in the muddy channel of their personal recollections ’ ) , whom Tigg introduces to Jonas Chuzzlewit to impress the latter with the power and glory of the fraudulent insurance company he is seeking to involve Jonas in . |
| 21 | The combatants try to score the most points possible , using techniques which involve actual body contact . |
| 22 | Whilst in no way related , the stories of the pea and the pine serve to illustrate the many facets of plant introduction through the ages , reminding us of those thoughtful , artistic , practical and often intrepid individuals who were responsible for the plants which grace our parks and gardens today . |
| 23 | Lawyers in Norway , he suggests , are doing this with regard to legal concepts and linguists have to do the same with regard to linguistic concepts and theories ( ibid . ) . |
| 24 | I am already conscious of the manner in which research students tend to plough the same predictable paths through archival sources . |
| 25 | Dealing 2000 Phase Two , due out this year ( forex dealing ) , and the upcoming Globex after-hours futures trading system hope to do the same in other markets . |
| 26 | When women gather to do the same , it is called gossip . |
| 27 | Most patterns need to go the same way on all pieces joined , so this must be taken into account when ordering . |
| 28 | Now , unemployment among unskilled black people is six times higher than among whites , because employers have to pay the same rate to both , and they express their prefence by choosing white employees . |
| 29 | On the whole , algebraists seem to have a slight preference for the latter whilst analysts tend to prefer the former , perhaps because of tradition . |
| 30 | Some of the tense/aspect distinctions of American Black English which have attracted the attention of sociolinguists seem to introduce the same problems of underlying structural non-identity as the Irish English perfect — an example is perfective done , illustrated by 19–21 . |