Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depending on technical arguments , the conference will decide on a spacing for satellites using the same frequency that could be anywhere between 4° and 10° . |
| 2 | Once you have lists where you are confident that you are hearing the tone correctly , these can then be used as drills following the same procedure as before , i.e. listening and mimicking down and across the lists : It is by no means always possible to find a high frame preceding the place of substitution . |
| 3 | An entertaining example of animals solving the same problem as the swimming rats , but with land and water reversed , is the ability of a tide-pool fish , the goby , to jump from one pool to another without landing on the rock between . |
| 4 | Zue ( 1985 ) defines a collection of words having the same representation as an equivalence class . |
| 5 | Variations of units having the same name meant that sometimes there was easy money to be made , buying big chauldrons and selling small ones ; but usually this was only a minor nuisance , entailing conversion tables and making international communication a little more difficult . |
| 6 | The three repressors belong to a family of proteins bearing the same DNA-binding motif , the TraY protein from E. coli F episome probably being a fourth . |
| 7 | The event , sponsored by Sight Savers , Marshall Amplification and Guitarist , aims to beat the world record for the biggest number of guitarists playing the same song non-stop for one hour . |
| 8 | But the idea of a continuum of language-games employing the same word , whose contexts recall more or less distantly the analogous human original , seems more adequately to capture the spirit of what we need to say in such circumstances . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're promoting real European unity , ’ Jim continues , ‘ not just a lot of countries having the same currency . ’ |
| 10 | While one party to an internal armed conflict will be the government representative of the State party to the Convention , the other will be a body of individuals challenging the former 's authority . |
| 11 | It is indirect in the case of two flocks of geese quartering the same ground ; direct in the case of two titmice fighting over a piece of fat on a bird table . |
| 12 | It was obliged to do so if it was to operate within a competitive market where there were a sufficient number of firms producing the same or a substitutable commodity so that each firm was incapable of influencing the price of the commodity by adjusting its output . |
| 13 | The course commences with a Premedical year of studies taking the same course as is offered to the first year Biological Sciences students . |
| 14 | The Opposition leader Neil Kinnock has pledged that a Labour government would leave eighty-eight per cent of taxpayers paying the same rate as at present . |
| 15 | His vision of owners applying the same judgements to their buildings as they might to their car or their rivers being polluted by waste dumping . |
| 16 | Therefore , any pair of securities having the same level of risk can not have two different levels of expected longterm return when a perfect capital market is in equilibrium . |
| 17 | De Candolle realized that all species have the potential to increase their numbers at the expense of rivals occupying the same territory . |
| 18 | We have now a number of equations describing the same thing . |
| 19 | However , detailed observations of a variety of teachers using the same material ( see , for example , reference 2 ) immediately reveals the wide range of teaching styles that are used and the apparent ease with which almost any material can be absorbed into any style . |
| 20 | We , in our observations so far of a number of teachers using the same program teaching units , have been more impressed by the disparity of the lessons than by their similarity . |
| 21 | Outside the front door of the school stood a line of teachers wearing the same robes as the Headmaster . |
| 22 | If the language you are learning has stress timing and your own does n't , make lists of utterances having the same number of stresses but different number of syllables . |
| 23 | After aggravation with an LM potency , there should be amelioration within a few days ( 24 hours in my experience ) , if there is a subsequent return of symptoms requiring the same remedy resume treatment not with the same potency but the next higher one . |
| 24 | However , other research has shown that in addition to the mean level of risk observed from a sample of portfolios containing the same number of randomly selected shares , the standard deviation also has to be taken into account . |
| 25 | Moreover , the court should not approach decisions and reasons given by committees of laymen expecting the same accuracy in the use of language which a lawyer might be expected to adopt . |
| 26 | By contrast , the relative complexity of tasks involving the same mathematics set in different contexts or tasks involving a number of different mathematical ideas is not so easily established . |
| 27 | Much the same can be said for the group of surnames representing the former holding of offices , which includes such obvious examples as Butler , Chamberlain , Reeve , Beadle , Granger and Steward , but some are less obvious because time has dimmed both the memory of the office concerned and distorted the spelling of the name : Grieve = a farm steward ; Gayler = a gaoler ; Bailey = a bailiff or sergeant ; Spencer = a dispenser of provisions ; Tunnard = guardian of the village ( tūn ) pound ; Senskell = a majordomo ( seneschal ) ; Wardrop = a wardrober . |
| 28 | Mergers , especially between banks serving the same area , are being seen as the swiftest route to big cost savings ; these , in turn , free up capital . |
| 29 | These kinds of videoconference systems permit conferencing only between stations using the same equipment . |
| 30 | Eventually the program will organise all the samples into groups having the same or similar ‘ fingerprints ’ . |