Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [det] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far back as 1904 Winston Churchill had foreseen the same change when he predicted the tariff reformers ' coming takeover of the party . |
| 2 | It is not difficult to see why corporate crime has not received the same publicity as murder , robbery , theft , rape and so on — both in the mass media and in the study of crime . |
| 3 | ‘ Did anyone know that Mowbray had received the same warning as Sir Ralph ? ’ |
| 4 | For example , the words ’ made ’ , ’ making ’ and ’ makes ’ are all assigned the same index as the word ’ make ’ . |
| 5 | However , if ’ payment ’ were assigned the same index as ’ pay ’ , then a strong overlap would result . |
| 6 | A law which regulates the ability of a local authority to display venereal disease posters in public places is given the same weighting as a law which expands the welfare state substantially through the provision of free school education or establishes a free health service . |
| 7 | It is time MPs were given the same protection so they can vote without fear of reprisals . |
| 8 | If payments were partly based on per capita emissions of greenhouse gases , would methane from paddy fields be given the same price as carbon dioxide from power stations , cars and burning tropical forests ? |
| 9 | They should have been , as they were given the same rations as a British farm labourer . |
| 10 | In a report launched in May , Organising for Safety , it was recommended that organisational factors be given the same emphasis as equipment failure and individual human error when considering safety . |
| 11 | The Married Women 's Property Acts of the 1870s and 1880s permitted women to control their own property , although married women were not given the same capacity as single women to acquire , hold and dispose of property until 1935 . |
| 12 | Cations of elements which only form one stable ion are given the same name as the element . |
| 13 | Third , the Registrar 's certificate will be given the same effect as regards further particulars as it has with respect to the creation of a charge . |
| 14 | Regretting attempts by " some countries in the North to fashion the new world order only on the basis of their priorities " , the document suggested that military and political objectives be given the same importance as " economic and social dimensions " . |
| 15 | Doreen , a nineteen-year-old mother of three young children , felt strongly about this after her experiences , and correctly points out that it was her own choice to have her children , and she should be given the same respect as any older mother : |
| 16 | These diseases could at least be given the same priority as other diseases . |
| 17 | Is not it reasonable that the House of Commons should be given the same information as is made available to the press in briefings ? |
| 18 | The union really wanted women out of the trade , but in public statements like Mr Battersby 's after-dinner speech , said that they were prepared to settle for equal pay ; while the women regarded the latter call as unrealistic if not hypocritical , since they felt ( and were daily told ) that they were not doing the equivalent of a skilled man 's work ( though even they thought the differentials too high ) . |
| 19 | Dealers insist that paintings should be treated the same way because of the auctions for dealers only , where ‘ dead ’ stock is exchanged and where new prices are set . |
| 20 | photocopied the same time as these and then you know we would have all had one for reference . |
| 21 | Each club have been fined the same amount as Arsenal , who were found to be the less culpable party in the mass scuffle with Norwich City on November 4 . |
| 22 | Diamonds Are Forever took the same course as its predecessor . |
| 23 | If they had polled the same plurality as they commanded in 1987 , there would have been no overall party majority . |
| 24 | You will still have turned the same amount as before , that is 180° . |
| 25 | The Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , has adopted the same position as his predecessors , Sir Geoffrey Howe and Mr John Major , insisting that the deportations are an essential deterrent against a fresh influx of Vietnamese next year . |
| 26 | In writing the minutes , which should be done the same evening if you wish to avoid mental stress , the general tenor of the debate , as well as its conclusions , should appear . |
| 27 | No , we have done the same thing as before with the only difference that we calculated the potential instead of the electric field . |
| 28 | Otherwise he might have suffered the same fate as Sheila Brayford . |
| 29 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 30 | Most of your clothes seem to have suffered the same fate as the rest of your belongings , Fran . |