Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sex for money carries the same risks as any other kind of sex . |
| 2 | Fruit juices are high in fructose , which weight for weight has the same calories as sucrose ( ordinary sugar ) . |
| 3 | The teenager who can not find a job , the young mother with no one but toddlers to talk to , the active man forced to retire because of age regulations , the person who spends day after day doing the same repetitive work — all these people , and many others , may suffer from extreme boredom . |
| 4 | Given this pattern of repeat business , and of agents who have a collection round which week after week includes the same customers , it is typical for customers to start another check when they have paid off the one before . |
| 5 | But ringing has shown that the same birds return year after year to patrol the same wintering areas , the oldest birds having done the round trip up to 30 times . |
| 6 | Often , you may find larvae of other kinds of insect sharing the same gall . |
| 7 | For example , many cases of burglary followed the same pattern . |
| 8 | The basic test for remoteness of damage remained the same until 1961 and was then changed by a Privy Council decision . |
| 9 | The two basic postulates of SR are as follows : firstly the laws of physics take the same form in all inertial frames , i.e. in all frames which are moving with constant velocity with respect to the frame of the distant galaxies ; secondly the velocity of light is a constant c . |
| 10 | ‘ Yousefi has a wife and three children who will of course suffer the same fate if the Home Secretary 's decision is to deport him . ’ |
| 11 | Honey contains some sucrose as well as glucose and fructose ; 1 teaspoon of honey has the same amount of calories as one teaspoon of sucrose . |
| 12 | The proofs of purchase remain the same , of course , but the dealer is in a position to take care of installation and so forth for those of a nervous disposition . |
| 13 | The process of feedback follows the same pattern of encoding , signalling and decoding . |
| 14 | However , the discovery that the speed of light appeared the same to every observer , no matter how he was moving , led to the theory of relativity — and in that one had to abandon the idea that there was a unique absolute time . |
| 15 | In the Seven Years War over 30 per cent of the Letters of Marque vessels from Bristol were lost , while a third of Bristol privateers during the American War of Independence met the same fate . |
| 16 | As befits such a highly desirable collection , each plate is individually hand numbered and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity bearing the same number , thus establishing each plate 's place in the edition . |
| 17 | Whatever the age group we 're working with ( be it five year olds or fifty year olds ) the basic elements of drama remain the same : |
| 18 | First , though there have been some marginal changes , most notably in the steady trickle away from the north and west to the south and east , the main features of the regional distribution of population remain the same . |
| 19 | Further , it is assumed that units of consumers ' and producers ' surplus can be added and subtracted , i.e. a unit of surplus represents the same quantity of benefit irrespective of whether it accrues to the buyer or seller . |
| 20 | A third kind of evidence points the same way : the great collection of canon law known by the mythic name of " Pseudo-Isidore " , the substantial and , despite the inclusion of some forged papal letters , for the most part perfectly genuine residue of the western churches ' institutional life over eight centuries , was produced in the heart of Charles 's kingdom , in the province of Rheims , about 850 . |
| 21 | Nor does each type of evidence carry the same weight . |
| 22 | Our sense of achievement lasted the few hours until we collected the kids . |
| 23 | It was found that the hsdS ts-1 gene , present on this plasmid , failed to produce the temperature-sensitive R-M phenotype ; the efficiency of plating of bacteriophage lambda was reduced by approximately four orders of magnitude to give the same efficiency of plating observed with the wild type R-M system . |
| 24 | Both of the basic purposes of education require the same essential tools . |
| 25 | As far as the primary phase of schooling was concerned , the plan of development favoured the same activities as were listed in A Framework for the School Curriculum , except that more attention was devoted to history and geography , to expressive arts , and to science , and to the need for clearly structured and progressively demanding work in these areas of the curriculum . |
| 26 | I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that the effect of section 8 is to make it clear that a child of 16 or 17 years of age has the same capacity as an adult to consent to surgical medical or dental treatment which would otherwise constitute a trespass . |
| 27 | In each case the overall aims of nursing remain the same . |
| 28 | All stuff , cos then we , they imported a lot of er razors and erm all different television stuff and we had a lot of beer come in from erm Germany , lot of beer come the that stuff , that 's a Dutch beer . |
| 29 | But the job of captain remains the same : you have to work in with the coaches , motivate the players and gain their respect . |
| 30 | To prevent a heavy landing as the airbrakes are opened , a backward movement is needed on the stick to increase the wing 's angle of attack to maintain the same amount of lift as before . |