Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 20(1) ( iv ) was the model for the definition of theft and ‘ appropriate ’ was intended to bear the same meaning . |
| 2 | However , evidence of different structures in other programs designed to perform the same function would assist the plaintiff who argued that the structure of his program was protectable expression and not unprotectable idea . |
| 3 | There are many and varied versions of the link-leger designed to combat the same problem . |
| 4 | Somehow local authorities are expected to perform the same range of duties more cheaply . |
| 5 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 6 | It occurred to National Certificate staff that instead of programming say twenty subject assessors to different centres all over the country on a particular day , all twenty could be programmed to visit the same centre on the same day . |
| 7 | was designed to replace the former system of emergency grants for special needs for such items as cookers and clothing , which were dispensed under a variety of rules . |
| 8 | Hargreaves Quarries is expected to excite the most interest . |
| 9 | AutoDesk Inc 's multimedia revenues , which grew by 76% last year , are expected to duplicate the same success this year , president and chief executive Carol Bartz told the Hambrecht & Quist technology conference . |
| 10 | For example , brothers and sisters who differ in age share genes to the same extent as dizygotic twins , and so in a purely genetic disease would be expected to have the same concordance rates — but they do not . |
| 11 | For instance , sibling nodes ( nodes which have some hierarchical relation to the same node ) might be expected to have the same pattern of ‘ target node names ’ . |
| 12 | Export in particular has had a good year and during 1991 we are forecast to deliver an all time record tonnage of malt to 40 customers in 33 countries . |
| 13 | Now the government is trying another policy designed to achieve the same end . |
| 14 | The two objectives are designed to achieve the same end . |
| 15 | Members of the RIBA may be expected to follow the same pattern after 1992 . |
| 16 | For example , it might seem curious that a member of the RICS could be a director of a commercial company offering a range of services to the public , yet not be permitted to occupy the same position in a company offering the very skill for which he has been trained . |
| 17 | A cut in taxes that raised residents ' incomes by the same amount as the lump-sum grant would be expected to produce the same amount as the lump-sum grant . |
| 18 | Other MIPS RISC-based systems in Olivetti 's stable such as the M700–10 look destined to go the same way . |
| 19 | In particular the fearful and horrifying episodes of life with their accompanying pain are played back so that time after time we are made to suffer the same agony that we felt as a child when we had the original experience . |
| 20 | They then seemed destined to suffer the same fate as Jack Handy 's firm : a sharp decline due to financial extravagance and a lack of closely controlled management . |
| 21 | Here , though , the procedure of the auctioneer was somewhat different , for at first the most attractive girls were auctioned to the highest bidders and then a sort of reverse auction took place in which the unattractive ones were distributed : instead of ascending , the bidding descended until the man prepared to accept the least payment got the girl . |
| 22 | In this passage , Wittgenstein mentions one argument for saying that the thought is not the same as the sentence — two sentences ‘ one in English and one in French , may be said to express the same thought ; since the thought is the same but the sentences different the thought is not the same as either of the sentences . |
| 23 | However , the formation of unisons is not always satisfactory or possible ( for example , in Example 140 above each voice could hardly be made to play the same unison D , for contrapuntal reasons , nor could it sound completely satisfactory ) . |
| 24 | The indictment ended months of secret negotiations between Weinberger 's lawyers and the prosecution team , who had reportedly sought to persuade the former Defence Secretary to plead guilty to a misdemeanour and to provide evidence concerning Reagan 's role in the cover-up of the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 25 | In Section 2 he rejects the suggestion , conveyed by the exclamation , ‘ Surely a similarity must strike us , or we should n't be moved to use the same word ’ , that some act must precede the act of using the word ; and in Sections 5 and 10 he talks about the ‘ mistake ’ labelled by the word ‘ to make ’ as it occurs in the question , ‘ What made you call this ‘ red ’ ? ’ ) |
| 26 | During the first half of the century efforts were made to extend the same technique to the various kinds of animals as well as plants , so that naturalists had access to a vast body of information about the geographical distribution of living things . |
| 27 | When you have finished the novel it is not that you have really finished it , but that you have decided to do no more work on it . |
| 28 | As fast as rubber wore from the tread , fresh rubber formed on the inside , while the whole tyre slowly expanded to keep the same size . |
| 29 | He had read that , at the exclusive Beefsteak Club in London , every steward was addressed as George , and the colonel had decided to adopt the same rule to save people from remembering unnecessary names when stewards were changed . |
| 30 | But if the decision is made to share the same house , and it looks like a viable proposition , then planning should begin optimistically and without fuss , having due regard for the needs of all parties . |