Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kirton regained fame when he gained a place on the All Black panel , after John Hart had virtually lost be default , for one year , but was removed the following year when Hart made a more orderly bid to become an All Black selector . |
| 2 | His achievements to date were listed : charges laid on the railway in the Tobruk area on the night of 14 October ; a failed attempt to do the same near Sidi Barani which resulted in the death of the patrol commander , Lieutenant Shorten ; two further breaks in the railway on 24 October ; nine breaks on 29 October , and finally another attack on the track on 31 October . |
| 3 | Such communities may tolerate a wide range of different forms to express the same item . |
| 4 | Other researchers have used different labels to describe the same distinction , for example , control , manoeuvring and strategical levels ( e.g. Janssen , 1979 ; Verwey , 1990 ) . |
| 5 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 6 | Er okay , different words to describe the same and indeed they did n't take out of any fund , but they achieved the same end result . |
| 7 | Barclay was the first English lexicographer to attempt the latter . |
| 8 | You can buy a strong slim trowel to do the same job and there are several on the market . |
| 9 | Anthropological analysis of these beliefs , I believe , should add a crucial semantic dimension to compliment the many non-qualitative enquiries into policing now in progress . |
| 10 | Even in a system dominated by the class cleavage , there is no necessity for people on the same side of the cleavage living in different places to favour the same political party . |
| 11 | Whereas the time taken for a computer working randomly but with the constraint of cumulative selection to perform the same task is of the same order as humans ordinarily can understand , between 11 seconds and the time it takes to have lunch . |
| 12 | Like Peters and Waterman ( 1982 ) , she emphasizes the need for top executives to establish a few clear signals in order to create a felt need for change , and to use ‘ prime movers ’ in the organization both to ‘ talk up ’ the new strategy and to ensure that the signals or symbols developed to establish the new direction are present in all important interactions — i.e. reflected in reports , agenda for meetings , key events , and so on . |
| 13 | The fielding of a single candidate chosen from the participating party with the most votes in the 1992 election ( or any other generally acceptable means to achieve the same result ) . |
| 14 | Interface details may be qualitatively insubstantial , after all the program is a spreadsheet program , not an interface program , and may be written in different code to achieve the same purpose . |
| 15 | I just feel a game of this genre needs a quota of well-hidden rooms to add a little interest . |
| 16 | By this time solar illumination was sufficient even in high latitudes to drive the same catalytic ozone destruction cycle involving the ClO dimer that is responsible for the Antarctic ozone hole . |
| 17 | How does having their own individual time cause people traveling at different speeds to measure the same speed of light ? |
| 18 | He proposed to draw up what could be learned of the history of this area , and hoped that the Earl of Northumbria would ask his old men to do the same , when a meeting might be called to their mutual benefit . |
| 19 | Mr Honecker chose a different image to make the same point : attempts to destabilise socialism , he said , are like ‘ the fruitless attacks by Don Quixote against windmills that continue to turn imperturbably . ’ |
| 20 | The further development of these lines of thought may lead to a deeper understanding of the underlying principles of health and disease and an enhanced ability to convert the latter to the former . |
| 21 | An " unseen " exam paper allows different examiners to mark the same answers independently and to arrive at a fairly consistent and impartial assessment of the candidate 's overall performance and potential . |
| 22 | Therefore , if a low potency is being used , it may be necessary to administer repeated doses to achieve the same effect as a single dose of a higher potency . |
| 23 | The crucial phrase in the White Paper guidance was that the Authority should not license more than one British airline to serve the same route , with British Airways as the preferred airline to the USA . |
| 24 | Furthermore , of course , if the government did possess an important informational advantage there would be a strong incentive for the private sector to obtain the same information , so one might expect the advantage to be gradually eroded . |
| 25 | The ban may , however , give Mrs Marcos the perfect opportunity to shed a few tears in front of the television cameras . |
| 26 | Cough worse ( < ) lying down which causes the most violent cough to appear a few moments later . |
| 27 | The Cambridge based project forms the ‘ umbrella ’ to wider collaborative research in which several independently financed groups will work in other countries using a similar methodology to address the same issues . |
| 28 | A popular means of saving costs is to reduce the work-force and hire outside contractors to perform the same duties . |
| 29 | Rather than waiting for more individual tenants to bring the same problem , it would be more efficient for the bureau to alert the local authority concerned and to explore with interested clients the possibility of a tenants ' association . |
| 30 | BUILDING work on a new county jail in Florida was falling woefully behind schedule , despite the critical need for additional space to house the many arrested as suspected drug offenders . |