Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 2 | The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents . |
| 3 | Here , ants and fungi race to make the most of good , organic matter and the rotting trunks themselves play host to an assortment of bright green epiphytes . |
| 4 | These designs involve slipping the same needle for between two and four rows . |
| 5 | One of the sad things about history is that nations keep making the same mistakes . |
| 6 | There is some repetition as the authors backtrack to report the same developments from different points of view and new characters are introduced ; the detailed mathematical discussions do become daunting for the non-specialist reader . |
| 7 | For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) . |
| 8 | The Pilot Survey showed some monitoring , further standardisation of the equipment was essential , mainly though , I 'm going to make sure all schools have got the same pipes and connector and I 'm going to give them some solutions to test because there was a bit of variation between schools , and there will be variation geographically , so I want to be able to have a measure of any error that will be involved as well . |
| 9 | Some manufacturers have overcome the latter factor by placing the batteries in a compartment separate from the control box ( eg Fisher 1266-X and C-Scope CS4ZX ) . |
| 10 | The so-called modern values bring about a convergence of culture through improved mass communications , the elites of Third World countries come to share the same culture as those in the industrialised world . |
| 11 | And the tame descendants have kept the same views on this matter . |
| 12 | But with the other companies that have been established , and all water companies have done the same , the way to increase profits is to go into er a business which you 're in competition with other businesses and you stand or fail as to how well you do on that . |
| 13 | So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner . |
| 14 | Adjectives seem to need the same rule , to produce stress patterns such |
| 15 | Composers have followed the same pattern . ) |
| 16 | The trouble is that many other firms want to do the same , so the profits of the business will probably be lower by then . |
| 17 | But both firms happen to have the same dividends and the same share price , so that the net and gross dividend yields are the same at 5.31 and 7.08 per cent respectively . |
| 18 | Most importantly , the people who will have to implement the community care reforms seem to share the same vision and , despite certain reservations , the same enthusiasm . |
| 19 | Charts of asking questions , if people come to you and ask questions keep referring the same things similar things to you all the time . |
| 20 | Later writers have voiced the same view . |
| 21 | W. Lancaster 's 13/0 stainless steel cutlery : some customers have used the same set for 20 years |
| 22 | While Japanese firms have established R&D centres in America and Europe , foreign firms have done the same in Japan . |
| 23 | Other studies have found the same . |
| 24 | Crews and sponsors tend to frequent the same restaurants , pubs and hotels . |
| 25 | The effect of this when it is accepted is very far reaching because the more an idea is tested the more it is validated and criticism becomes not a threat but an opportunity to strengthen the idea ; and what is more important scientists cease to have the same proprietorial attitude towards in idea . |
| 26 | There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country . |
| 27 | All teachers have had the same training , but styles and personalities can differ greatly . |
| 28 | ‘ Our idea is not to change the nature of the force to move from peacekeeping to peacemaking , ’ said Jean-Bernard Merimee , the ambassador of France , whose forces have suffered the most casualties in the Balkans . |
| 29 | Those treaties have followed the same course . |
| 30 | Other girls have had the same idea , but so far he 's still Mystery Miguel . ’ |