Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] in the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
| 2 | Moreover , it varies according to style , purpose and audience : no one speaks or writes in the same way on all occasions . |
| 3 | Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church . |
| 4 | Another idea that uses a mirror image is to make a pair of pictures , either in separate frames or housed in the same mount , in which the colours of the flowers and foliage are transposed . |
| 5 | Most shoplifters give themselves away by constantly looking around at cameras and cashiers or staying in the same area for a long time . |
| 6 | A nation owing money to other nations … is impoverished or burdened in the same way as a man who owes money to other men . |
| 7 | Possible definitions of co-ordinate are , to place or classify in the same order or rank ; to combine or integrate harmoniously . |
| 8 | This common bond can be based on living in the same area , or working in the same factory , or attending the same church , or being members of the same club . |
| 9 | James Anderson , of Jarrow , asks how we managed to miss the series of disasters at nuclear power stations that occurred in the former Soviet Union during the mid-1990s , causing the flight of tens of millions of people towards western Europe and triggering the ‘ Refugee Wars ’ of 1995–96 . |
| 10 | NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE — measures the chance of death during the first month of life ; it is calculated as the number of deaths under 28 days of age ( or under one month ) during a specified time period per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same period . |
| 11 | PERINATAL MORTALITY RATION — The annual number of late fetal deaths plus infant deaths during the early neonatal period ( sometimes infant deaths during the first month of life ) per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same year . |
| 12 | Certain types of bacteria , by genetic mutation , can build up resistance to disinfectants that act in the latter way to the extent that they can become totally immune to normal concentrations even utilising the disinfectant as a food source . |
| 13 | I think he realises that living in the same house would be very hard for both of you , and might lead to something that would worry your tender conscience no end . |
| 14 | Willis ( 1983 ) found that black males aged between 16 and 24 were stopped ten times more than average ( although prosecuted in the same proportion as white juveniles ) . |
| 15 | Detailed geochemical profiling of the lava sequences has revealed a complex history of eruption from magma chambers which , although linked in the same geotectonic setting , had individual development paths within the crust . |
| 16 | Although numbered in the same series as the original cars , this batch in fact belonged to the B.E.T . |
| 17 | For example , the six male dancers do not always appear in the same place nor end in the same pose in the passages mentioned above . |
| 18 | Mr Barnett has also described how the public school ethos that emerged in the latter half of the last century was suffused by a contempt for technology and ‘ trade ’ . |
| 19 | Many of these are now professionally translated and produced and are supplanting the pirated , crudely photocopied sex books and pamphlets that appeared in the latter part of Gorbachev 's rule . |
| 20 | A stallion that behaves in the same way is psychologically more threatening to us , but it is best to respond with tact — to stroke the horse briefly and then to leave it in peace . |
| 21 | Declining yews lose needles and develop in the same pattern as other conifers , and affected beech show specific changes to their branching structure . |
| 22 | The laboratory method appeals to those who believe that , in the last analysis , human behaviour can be studied and explained in the same way as can events in the world of nature . |
| 23 | The other player then picks up four beads from one hole on her side and plays in the same way . |
| 24 | The more fundamental causes of conflict lay far deeper — in the basic conflict of two powers anxious to expand their interests and influence in the same region . |
| 25 | It may be noted that in Criminal Law anyone who aids , counsels , or procures the commission of an offence is liable to be tried and punished in the same way as if he were a principal offender . |
| 26 | Mary Jane Wilson founded a religious order in the island , whose members worked in the hospitals and taught in the many parish schools . |
| 27 | If a complete unified theory was discovered , it would only be a matter of time before it was digested and simplified in the same way and taught in schools , at least in outline . |
| 28 | These data compare predator assemblages with trapping data from the same habitat over which the predator was known to hunt , and comparisons can also be made between different species of predator that live and hunt in the same locality . |
| 29 | ‘ Because everybody goes and jumps in the river is no reason why we have to go and jump in the same river . ’ |
| 30 | " It should be obvious that in the crowded habitations of the poor , who live , cook , eat , and sleep in the same apartment and pay little regard to the washing of hands , the evacuations of cholera victims which are almost colourless and without odour can be passed from one person to another . |