Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an amendment would permit claims where the employee 's invention falls short of revolutionising the employer 's position but nonetheless contributes greatly to the latter 's economic well-being . |
| 2 | The fish tend to spawn all around the same time and pay attention to their own broods — equally the parents will see off any attempt by another pair to eat their brood . |
| 3 | However , they all sit together in the same circular chamber which has various doors marked ‘ Clergy Ayes ’ or ‘ Laity Noes ’ through which the members of the Synod troop to vote in the way MPs trudge through their voting lobbies . |
| 4 | The Infinite Wheel present four UK harmonised house cuts loosely gathered together under the same title , the ‘ Dream Of Dreams ’ mix holding the dancefloor tactics whilst the epic and trippy ‘ Big Blue Mix ’ and ‘ Bay Of Rainbows ’ melt into each other to create a floaty yet still club-viable waxing . |
| 5 | Of the surviving children of William Charles and Anne , five were baptised together on the same day ( 10 July 1817 ) in their father 's original parish at the miniature City church of St Ethelburga , Bishopsgate . |
| 6 | They lay together in the same blue-white room , though this time their lovemaking had been gentler and more familiar , as warmth and exploration of each other 's bodies and hearts had succeeded the glorious frenzy of their first coupling . |
| 7 | Thus the thickest potential net pay can be expected to be developed only in the latter situation ( see Figs. 25 and 26 ) . |
| 8 | At Mandru , the Lady Nehushtah , Mandru 's exotic Ixibatabian wife , had male as well as female attendants , and all the Ixmaritians lived together in the same building , regardless of their gender . |
| 9 | I am sure that my hon. Friend is right , in that it makes sense to believe that if young people from both sides of the community are taught together in the same classrooms , they will value equally both traditions and will be more likely than some others to find common ground in later life . |
| 10 | China , if the one-child policy continues to be pursued successfully at the same time that life expectancy is being extended , looks set for an extraordinarily rapid transition to being the oldest society ever known — an apparently unforeseen consequence of her birth-rate policy , according to work being carried out by James Smith and Peter Laslett at the Rank Xerox Unit for the Study of Ageing , University of Cambridge . |
| 11 | As David Shulman , equity strategist at Salomon Brothers , was the first to point out , the danger for investors these days lies less with the few hot shares whose rise he misses than with the many dubious ones already in his portfolio . |
| 12 | All this means that Mr Ciampi can count only on the same thin majority that sustained his predecessor . |
| 13 | They were originally thought to have been two closely related species occurring together in the same rocks , but these ‘ pairs ’ were so consistently found together that it became more and more probable that they were sexual forms of the same species . |
| 14 | This study looks only at the latter two groups . |
| 15 | Playing at an altitude of over 5,000 feet and in humid conditions , Canada introduced only two new caps , B.C. no.8 Colin McKenzie and Scott MacKinnon , the Ontario wing who joined flanker Gord to give Canada its first instance of brothers appearing together in the same international side . |
| 16 | At the Council in the Marches of Wales the offices of Secretary , Clerk to the Council , and Clerk of the Signet all came to be grouped together in the same hands . |
| 17 | There used to be a place who , place opposite on the same side as the the White Horse that eh , was selling plants , but do n't like that naked fence at all . |
| 18 | So but er the overseas fellow , You know I 'll consider just on the same level , and ofte Well I never saw any er what you 'd call bickering and biding between the black and the white student . |
| 19 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 20 | It 's easy to get carried away by the many tools at your disposal so beware of using them just because they 're there . |
| 21 | If , for example , a customer likes Marks and Spencers ' potato crisps , he can only buy more at the same shop ( or another branch of Marks and Spencers in a different town ) . |
| 22 | A maid jumped and began to scream shrilly on the same note as her mistress . |
| 23 | The strategy is to sell the plug compatibles for less than the price of the equivalent IBM machine but to make them at least as powerful , or to provide more for the same money . |
| 24 | To acknowledge hunger ( which is not a disease but a social illness ) would be tantamount to political suicide among leaders whose power has come traditionally from the same plantation economy that produced that hunger in the first place . |
| 25 | However , in other parts of the world , birds have responded differently to the same or similar tests . |
| 26 | We would stress that the broad lines of development which we propose in our description of the 10 levels under this attainment target will require flexible interpretation since we recognise that language development is not linear but recursive , with pupils returning repeatedly to the same aspects of competence and reinforcing their skills on each occasion . |
| 27 | If it can be weathered without undue damage , interest rates should fall sharply in the latter half of next year . |
| 28 | This enables several users to work simultaneously on the same document by locking on to the section relevant to them , rather than accessing the entire thing . |
| 29 | The most surprising observation is that the spring bloom occurred almost at the same time in the Tromsø area and at Spitzbergen , approximately 10° further north . |
| 30 | For the most part they are confined there by the same spell which draws the magic to Ulthuan , but some things manage to find their way down to ravage the lands below . |