Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Here , in a role that might have better suited Peter Sellers , or , more authentically , Alberto Sordi , he goes through a few variations on Ben Braddock and Jason Fister , the agent in his first Italian misadventure .
2 And when the second person starts to speak , the first person goes through the same performance until there is a chance to interrupt and say : ‘ To get back to what I was saying … ’ or ‘ This only goes to prove my point … ’
3 He explained that what makes the document confidential is the fact that the creator of the document has used his brain and thus arrived at a result which can only be produced by somebody who goes through the same process .
4 A woman with big beautiful hands who smokes too much writes down my name and what she needs to know and what I need to tell , and another worker goes through the same routine with a serene and rather silent woman in her early thirties , with three children and two plastic bags containing toys and toiletries — the mark of a mother on the run , all you can grab in a quick getaway .
5 The spiny newt of China goes through the same sort of contortions to warn off those that threaten it and adds a special deterrent all its own .
6 The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment .
7 It usually starts shortly after the animals have been weaned and in most instances it only persists for a few months .
8 There is a new Nelson First Certificate Course to accompany the three other course titles Nelson already has for the same exam .
9 Venus is much smaller , but nevertheless still has about the same mass as the Earth .
10 Despite Sealink 's best efforts , I ca n't wait to escape our tiny cabin for the Bentley , whose interior I reckon has about the same amount of room but is more expensively trimmed .
11 The other is a slim footbridge carried on the piers of what looks like a former railway viaduct .
12 It looks like the same sort of swarf that 's lying under Orrie 's bench .
13 same hat , so it looks like the same woman so he says , oh my God !
14 This looks like the same tape as Uncle Pauls erm is it ?
15 and also state that their Fig. 1 b ( ref. 1 ) shows a ‘ coherent mixing trend ’ defined by slight variations in their reconstructed ground-mass compositions ( A , B , C and D ) , and suggest further that the Y6N17 groundmass lies along the same mixing trend as that previously noted for the Haiti glasses .
16 The item that makes everyone tick at PE also lies within the former gunnery hall , but it has been receiving attention since its arrival — within the hold of a Safair L–100 Hercules .
17 Perhaps the best hope for progress lies in the many examples of good practice that already exist and which the Act simply reflects and builds on .
18 It lies in the same field as the rather reddish Nu² ; ( 3.9 ) , forming a triangle with Nu² ; and Sirius .
19 i ) It is congruent with the traditional fungal taxonomy and with phylogenetic trees of fungi based on nuclear SSUrRNA data : the two pyrenomycetes ( P.anserina and N.crassa ) branch very closely together and their distance to A.nidulans , a representative of the plectomycetes , is shorter than that to S.cerevisiae , belonging to the endomycetes. ii ) The position of P.wickerhamii is unexpectedly closer to S.cerevisiae than to all other ascomycetes , whereas the distance between S.cerevisiae and P.wickerhamii lies in the same range as that between the two ascomycetes , S.cerevisiae and A.nidulans .
20 Average January temperatures are below freezing point , even as far south as Bitola , which lies in the same latitude as Naples .
21 In Yemen , seismic activity has commenced in our Hood block which lies in the same province as the oil fields recently discovered in the adjacent Masila area .
22 A trade union to my mind stands in the same position .
23 These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being .
24 Yet lexical access stands in the same relation to these levels as the acoustic front end stands to lexical access .
25 Suppose there exists a word form W , which in context C(1) stands in a particular meaning relation to another element A(1) , but in context C(2) stands in the same meaning relation not to A(1) , but to A(2) :
26 Thou hast done wonders in a little time , not only made a rake a husband but thou has made a rake a preacher .
27 The human creature develops in the former aspect , in the main , at puberty .
28 Moreover , it varies according to style , purpose and audience : no one speaks or writes in the same way on all occasions .
29 Then came the meeting with the woman whom he was to marry , a meeting about which he writes in the same book .
30 Unmarried , she lives in a former doctor 's surgery in Crook which doubles as the constituency office .
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