Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We all intend to continue the same sort of programme for the next couple of years and I have said I would like to call in next term and on a periodic basis until our responsibility ceases .
2 To test the first possibility P(A) was calculated using the same procedure as before but this time for individual subjects rather than stimuli .
3 The residuals are smoothed using the same recipe as before , and the results are added back to the results of the first smooth ; this is illustrated in exercise 9.1 .
4 In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated .
5 Ron lived to see the latter ambition fulfilled from the foundations he laid as Chairman of the racing section of the British Canoe Union and Olympic Team Manager .
6 The years 1961 – 63 were undoubtedly one of the peaks in the special relationship , and the successors of Kennedy and Macmillan in the 1960s failed to establish the same rapport .
7 Section 20(1) ( iv ) was the model for the definition of theft and ‘ appropriate ’ was intended to bear the same meaning .
8 The modern version we are using has the same hole , and our wood-burning stove has a pipe that goes through it , while the rest of it is closed with a cowl that is a bitch to fix .
9 However , Hirsch and Leff 's attempt to replicate this study , also reported in their book ( 1975 ) , failed to find the same degree of gross communication disorder as that claimed by Singer and Wynne .
10 Of all the elements that go to make up the accident causation system , the one that has received the least attention in residential areas is the design of the road network itself .
11 It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget .
12 However , evidence of different structures in other programs designed to perform the same function would assist the plaintiff who argued that the structure of his program was protectable expression and not unprotectable idea .
13 There are many and varied versions of the link-leger designed to combat the same problem .
14 ‘ Still , I have seven mediums who appear to see the same thing , with variations , of course — seven people will always see an event differently .
15 With a traditional spreadsheet , if you 've got 5,000 product types , and you want to perform the same calculation on each — for instance subtract the costs from the sale price — you have to duplicate the formula 5,000 times .
16 Vessels from the cemeteries in north-east England , Baston and Elsham ( Lincolnshire ) , and Sancton ( East Yorkshire ) were found to have fabrics specific to the respective cemeteries , although they had been decorated using the same set of dies .
17 TNT let-off CONTRACTORS who tried to demolish the former Brymbo steelworks melting shop with explosives without first obtaining the necessary council permission are not to be prosecuted .
18 Somehow local authorities are expected to perform the same range of duties more cheaply .
19 and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase .
20 The planners realised that if a quiet residential street is designed using the same process as that used in designing a main road , it should not cause surprise if cars drive along it as though it were a highway .
21 I want to catch the same train out you see
22 Those who broke into the inn tonight want to find the same treasure .
23 Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us .
24 Much of it was used to contain cremations or as accessory vessels in inhumation graves ; it is the funerary pottery that has attracted the most attention .
25 His support for the idea of sending a US special envoy to Northern Ireland has attracted the most attention during his three-day visit , which ends today .
26 The direct harnessing of the sun 's energy — solar power — is , along with nuclear fusion , the renewable energy sector which has attracted the most interest .
27 Even though drug testing has attracted the most controversy , it is merely part of a broad movement in America toward a Darwinian worker-selection policy , which has been dubbed ‘ employment of the fittest . ’
28 The sounds of night , picked out one by one , are imitated in the carefully constructed lines ; yet the pauses between the sounds are also conveyed in the slowness and tranquillity of the whole passage , so that the general effect is one of intense stillness , with the ear strained to catch the least noise .
29 For the past year , every flyer concerning hardcore/techno nights has featured the same line-up , and it 's become very tedious .
30 I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream .
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