Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [v-ing] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a good idea to practise this technique using the same piece of music each time and the length of one side of a cassette or record ( usually about twenty minutes ) is just about right for this exercise . |
| 2 | The decision to drop the case against him was made by Director of Public Prosecutions Barbara Mills , after the collapse of another trial involving the same company , Plasser Railway Machinery . |
| 3 | This process can be shown by normal carbon dioxide being passed through a tube containing algae in water with the heavier O isotope and carbon dioxide with the heavier O isotope being passed through another tube containing the same type of algae in normal water . |
| 4 | Another example demonstrating the same phenomenon may be seen in Fig. 2.41 . |
| 5 | We 're so confident of this Plan 's uniqueness that if , within three months or so of your Plan commencing , you should find and be accepted for another policy offering the same cover and benefits on more favourable terms , we guarantee to cancel your Plan and refund any premiums you have paid . |
| 6 | Thus the speaker who says ‘ I 'd really like to ’ , leaning forward , smiling , with a ‘ warm , breathy ’ voice quality , is much more likely to be interpreted as meaning what he says , than another speaker uttering the same words , leaning away , brow puckered , with a ‘ sneering , nasal ’ voice quality . |
| 7 | Further to your item on trade name registration ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November , p 79 ) I understood that if the trade name consisted of common or garden words then another company using the same name could not object . |
| 8 | The pope again provided to the see , this time choosing the former prior-provincial of the English Franciscans , John Pecham . |
| 9 | If you get a good riff , double it with another guy playing the same exact thing . |
| 10 | To have to sit in an office all day playing the same records — all of which are awful — over and over and over again — well , it 's not funny , is it ? |
| 11 | These effects arise when expansion of output allows firms to learn how to produce more output using the same inputs . |
| 12 | But all we can hear after turning off the recording is the sound of the same male making the same clicking sound . ’ |
| 13 | Far from doing this , Hildyard and Olson simply reproduce those very conventions in their own work making the same claims for objectivity as those made by the Royal Society . |
| 14 | ‘ Where a person , having sold goods , continues , or is , in possession of the goods or of the documents of title to the goods , the delivery or transfer by that person , or by a mercantile agent acting for him , of the goods or documents of title under any sale , pledge , or other disposition thereof , or under any agreement for sale , pledge or other disposition thereof , to any person receiving the same in good faith and without notice of the previous sale , shall have the same effect as if the person making the delivery or transfer were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Where a person , having bought or agreed to buy goods , obtains with the consent of the seller possession of the goods or documents of title to the goods , the delivery or transfer , by that person or by a mercantile agent acting for him , of the goods or documents of title , under any sale , pledge , or other disposition thereof , or under any agreement for sale , pledge or other disposition thereof , to any person receiving the same in good faith and without notice of any lien or other right of the original seller in respect of the goods , shall have the same effect as if the person making the delivery or transfer were a mercantile agent in possession of the goods or documents of title with the consent of the owner . ’ |
| 16 | A man brandishing a sword 100 feet away , preferably on the far side of a river , is a very different experience to the same man brandishing the same sword just 10 feet away . |
| 17 | ( o ) To sell or otherwise dispose of the whole or any part of the business or property of the Company , either together with or in portions , for such consideration as the Company may think fit , and in particular for shares , debentures , or securities of any company purchasing the same . |
| 18 | ( o ) To sell or otherwise dispose of the whole or any part of the business or property of the Company , either together with or in portions , for such consideration as the Company may think fit , and in particular for shares , debentures , or securities of any company purchasing the same . |
| 19 | Another matter worth commenting on is the noticeable disparity in acceptability for the same adjective qualifying the same noun but with the remainder of the phrase varying . |
| 20 | Both Kirkman Finlay and Dixon were Whigs , the Tory nominees in the Burgh Councils not having obtained the burgh nomination , and there was the curious position of two candidates from the same party contesting the same Parliamentary seat . |
| 21 | Despite the linguistic anomaly that the season called ‘ the time of inundation ’ would in due course fall in one of the other seasons , the Egyptians retained the 365-day calendar right down to the Roman period because of its convenience as an automatic record of the passage of time in an era , each year containing the same number of days , unlike our years . |