Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A third approach was considered to exhibit the least disadvantages . |
| 3 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |
| 4 | And she wants to do the same things as us . |
| 5 | On a patch where the rough surface of brickwork was exposed , someone had vomited , probably a passing drunk whose sense of propriety , demanding privacy , had deterred him from being sick in the street ; or a returning resident who could not wait to climb the few steps to the communal toilet on the first half-landing . |
| 6 | What we can not do is ask questions about sub-areas of the cerebral cortex , for example the striate cortex of primates , and expect to get the same answers from studies on different groups . |
| 7 | The company also said that it will continue with its application to the Department of Trade and Industry to operate a ‘ personal communications network ’ , which is expected to present the same opportunities in the next decade as cellular mobile radio is doing in this . |
| 8 | The more the CIA tried to investigate the more inconsistencies they turned up . |
| 9 | Delia Sutherland stopped calling her unreturned greetings , tried to ignore the many pairs of sun-tired eyes , slow-moving behind glaucous panes , as they measured her progress past the wooden church , the school , the town hall , the fire house , the inn . |
| 10 | The herb border can be designed to follow the same principles as those used for the herbaceous or mixed border ; small plants will not thank you for planting them next to towering or buxom plants — they will be smothered in no time . |
| 11 | Surely we all want to achieve the same objectives , an end to recession , low unemployment , a prosperous and fair economy , good education , training and health care . |
| 12 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 13 | If the Spirit of Jesus is the gift bestowed on his followers , we shall expect to find the same characteristics marking authentic Christian life in the Spirit . |
| 14 | Housewives simply do not expect to work the same hours in the home as they would in an office or factory . |
| 15 | We seemed destined to replay the same parts in an old story . |
| 16 | One consequence of all this was that when a Commons Defence Committee later met to disentangle the many grievances , John Nott — the defence secretary who ‘ misled ’ the Commons about the circumstances of the sinking of the General Belgrano — explained : ‘ In a few years ’ time , with satellites , the task of censorship will become an impossible one . ’ |
| 17 | Furthermore , if both LIFESPANs are instructed to use the same units simultaneously , they will compete for access to those units ( on a first-come first-served basis ) . |
| 18 | There is no obstacle at all except a respect for logical consistency to weighing facts justly when a mistake can cost money but refusing to extend the same standards to the historicity of Bible narrative , or to shutting one 's eyes to the use of Einstein 's relativity in work on the atom bomb while publicly denouncing the theory as Jewish science or bourgeois idealism . |
| 19 | His voice seemed to fill the few inches ' space between them , bringing them even closer . |
| 20 | It was decided to withdraw the same charges against former Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai and former Finance Minister Hanna Awdah . |
| 21 | Furthermore the resulting " socialist man " seemed to have the same needs as his capitalist counterpart for material goods , especially those based on energy and materially intensive technologies . |
| 22 | But you could have er , be er could now be referring to a different row that happens to have the same numbers in . |
| 23 | An old and enduring model of sexual difference , developed most powerfully and resiliently by Galen in the second century AD , had stressed the homologous nature of male and female reproductive organs ; women were said to have the same genitals as men , only inside rather than outside . |
| 24 | Drawing on North American experience , the Commission concluded that ‘ poor management was an important contributory factor to New York 's problems ’ , and sought to apply the same lessons here ( p. 2 ) . |
| 25 | Not only are we all primed to look for regularities , we tend to perceive the same regularities . |
| 26 | We would like to thank the many doctors and scientists in the United Kingdom and abroad who have been involved in research into nutrition and obesity . |
| 27 | His model and hero was his neighbour Mustafa Kenal Ataturk ; he strove to implement the same reforms in Iran as were being achieved in Turkey . |
| 28 | What is the nature of the relationship between proper names and descriptive referential phrases that happen to designate the same objects ? |
| 29 | It can only be hoped that the newly aggressive financial players of the Thatcher era manage to avoid the same errors . |
| 30 | Now that we have looked at Wharram Percy deserted village and seen something of the 30-year long excavations there , we should look at other studies and excavations on village sites which seem to suggest the same developments implied at Wharram Percy . |