Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.

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31 We may agree with much of Wilson 's emphasis on the need for public policy that promotes universal programmes and increases employment and training opportunities open on the same basis to all people .
32 When Ivan III manoeuvred to undermine the security of monastic property — before most of his Western peers embarked on the same road — he found himself unable to do so .
33 This was the scene — musicians and dance floor posers drawn from the same pool , sex as a slippery transaction — that produced Marc Almond and Soft Cell in Leeds , Boy George , and the early , sleazy Duran Duran in Birmingham .
34 Only eight out of 26 ministers retained their posts in a new Cabinet announced on July 19 ; key ministries remaining in the same hands included Defence under Maj.-Gen.
35 the establishment of a new species of law centre , ‘ Citizens ’ Law Centres , ’ financed out of public funds , without involvement in general community work such as the mounting of campaigns or political or social work , with clients paying on the same basis as legally-aided clients of private practitioners , managed by a central agency and advised by a local advisory committee ;
36 On 5 April , a set of fissures opened in the same place , and showers of incandescent fragments of lava were ejected .
37 In the study ( Levinger & Clark , 1961 ) emotional words were shown to produce higher fluctuations in galvanic skin response ( GSR ) than non-emotional ones , free-associates produced to these words were less likely to be subsequently recalled than associates of non-emotional words produced at the same time .
38 The future 's not certain for Little Jay , but to prevent other animals going through the same agony police say owners must be extra-vigilant .
39 We understand the meaning of words from their context , and in ordinary life the context includes not only other words used at the same time but the whole human or social situation in which the words are used .
40 My reason for calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is not its resemblance in some respect to other sensations called by the same name , but its mere resemblance to them .
41 What I mean by calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is its mere resemblance to other sensations called by the same name .
42 The implication of this passage is that the words ‘ sensation of white ’ denote the sensation , but connote its resemblance to other sensations called by the same name .
43 Much as technology seems to gather pace with the development of more and more sophisticated equipment so do the methods employed by the many users .
44 The result of this process is a discrimination tree , any of whose sub-trees contain a set of words beginning with the same phonemic description .
45 After all , when a quail is chased by a man , it must take more steps to run at the same speed .
46 Although Cheetham walked away with packets of dosh and has taken over Weidenfeld , his new list of authors relies on the same tired ( and expensive ) formula of ‘ star ’ novelists , which ultimately bores the reader and spoils the cash flow .
47 Two other Iranians arrested at the same time by Greater Manchester police were released without charge yesterday .
48 In our society , such ritual celebrations of changes of status through ageing are now restricted to religious occasions like baptism , confirmation and burial , though ‘ coming-of-age ’ parties amount to the same thing .
49 If the lads continue in the same vein , then we can climb out of trouble .
50 With the narrow lanes around Bentworth , any approaching traffic would have had to give way and cars travelling in the same direction could have been held up .
51 Both our patients presented with symptoms and signs of heavy metal intoxication within six weeks of exposure to remedies administered by the same hakim .
52 There may be more scope for a GIS approach in the latter than in the former situations .
53 Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting .
54 All these variations combine to the extent that even words spoken by the same person are never identical [ Vassiere , 1985 ] .
55 Even words spoken by the same person are never identical ( Vaissiere , 1985 ) .
56 Its the only time when nations gather under the same flag .
57 When children add new words to a domain , they typically assume that the words apply at the same level , and so contrast .
58 In a series of consecutive sections the hybridization signals observed with the human CFTR and hisD probes colocalized to the same airways and airspaces ( Fig.2 a-f ) .
59 In matrimonial law , the courts have recognised that cohabitation may have ceased even where the parties live in the same dwelling , provided that they are no longer ‘ living with each other in the same household . ’
60 Our public houses vary in terms of individual design and construction , but the plans provided are typical of the two types of unit distinguished in the Preliminary Report , and it may be assumed that appropriate proposals will be suitable for other units falling within the same category .
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