Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 She sweetly punctuated every pause with ‘ Actually , we have had quite a few calls saying the same thing , ’ and ‘ Actually , I must say , I do rather agree with you . ’
2 While some manufacturers advocated the latter , a more popular approach has been to build computers out of conventional processors so that many current programs and , more importantly , programming concepts , can be recycled .
3 Even if Liverpool methods had been universally adopted — and very few areas had the same religious background as Liverpool , the real basis of Salvidge 's success — then change would be slow and limited .
4 One can imagine some teachers using the same figures as evidence for using them less .
5 If some paths have the same successor then the tree can be redrawn as a graph as in the righthand side of Fig. 8.3 and in Fig. 8.4 .
6 Each of the next few slides has the same format .
7 Such contracts enable the latter to adjust their seasonal labour force downwards to cope with any less busy periods within the summer season and , more important , to run their labour forces down gradually as the season draws to an end and the number of guests tails off .
8 About 68 per cent of illegitimate births were jointly registered in the names of both parents in 1987 compared to 53 per cent in 1977 , and in 1987 , 70 per cent of such parents gave the same address .
9 Quite correctly , the ACS insists that such contractors produce the same standards of catering that are expected of the ACC .
10 A scale like this will normally consist of a series of such statements tapping the same attitudinal dimension .
11 All such variations contain the same general idea : " we " , who are true kin , share a common substance through our shared links with the same ancestral past ; but wherever descent is traced through both males and females the distinction between those who are unmarriageable because they rate as true kin and those who are marriageable because they do not so rate becomes very fuzzy .
12 Even if these animals eat the same restricted amount every day , they still grow more rapidly in the summer than in the winter .
13 From 1968 , these schools received the same benefits as the Roman cathodic sector .
14 These antibodies have the same immunoreactivity towards L-G-17 and gastrin-17 ( unpublished data ) .
15 " Capital sum " for these purposes has the same meaning as in s677. ( b ) Associated payments In relation to any capital sum paid to the settlor by a body corporate the expression " associated payment " means : ( i ) any capital sum paid to that body by the trustees of the settlement ; and ( ii ) any other sum paid or asset transferred to that body by those trustees which is not paid or transferred for full consideration in money or money 's worth being a sum paid or asset transferred in the five years ending or beginning with the date on which the capital sum is paid to the settlor ( s678(3) ) .
16 All these reminiscences told the same story : a big , healthy , gregarious man , full of fun and sport , always living life to the full and extracting from it all the juice it contained , and more .
17 Every business indicator of these years showed the same trend upwards .
18 Since these problems have the same constraints , we could write down a tableau for LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) having the same basic and non-basic variables ( in the same order ) as any given tableau of VMP .
19 All of these studies emphasised the same , fundamental point : that rehabilitation had led to the sacrifice of justice in favour of an alternative goal that it had manifestly failed to achieve .
20 Often these details follow the same pattern .
21 But essentially all these tests do the same thing because they 're seeing whether the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample are robust over all sub-samples , right , we ca n't , we would n't bother testing over all sub-samples though we can do , it 's just if we have good reason to believe that behaviour in one sub-sample different for behaviour in another E G use er Chow test or equivalently a dummy variable on the intercept to see whether there was any change .
22 He just had to hope that these nomes felt the same way .
23 To the urban dweller , all woods look the same , but in landscape terms we must be careful to distinguish between the wildwood ( the remnant or successor of the natural or semi-natural woodland of Britain — which certainly does not exist anywhere today and probably has not since the Roman period ) and woods which have been to a greater or lesser degree managed for the production of timber and wood ( Fig. 63 ) .
24 Not all surveyors have the same ambition and aptitude , and unless training is the reason for putting appropriate surveyors on to certain jobs , it is advisable to select those individuals who have experience relevant to , and interest in , the particular project in hand .
25 They were there to demand fair play in the allocation of housing and jobs ; he was not the enemy of the counter-demonstrators and NICRA had people of all religions demanding the same social justice .
26 The simplest assumption is , of course , that all chains have the same length N1 .
27 The Code sets out a timetable for takeovers and certain standards of conduct , in order that all shareholders receive the same information and time enough to act on that information .
28 The motorcyclist also used the West Approach Road , a stretch of urban semi-motorway on which bikes are banned ( next time , we 'll make sure all contestants use the same route ! ) .
29 While the nuclear transplantation and other experiments make it clear that all nuclei contain the same genetic information , there are exceptions .
30 But this would require three times as many pixels to get the same resolution as monochrome .
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