Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English seems to obtain much the same effect with the to infinitive as subject . |
| 2 | My authority receives half as much in grant as an authority such as Manchester to provide exactly the same level of teaching service . |
| 3 | However , if the arbitrage portfolios tend to contain roughly the same subset of shares , there will be little direct pressure on the prices of the remaining constituents of the index . |
| 4 | Management would say nothing after the talks , but John Kydd , divisional organiser of the AEEU , said the company had effectively delivered an ultimatum to the union to accept virtually the same package as was rejected by sacked workers nearly two weeks ago or the factory could close . |
| 5 | Identification of polymer samples can be made by making use of the ‘ finger-print ’ region , where it is least likely for one polymer to exhibit exactly the same spectrum as another . |
| 6 | I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice . |
| 7 | In practice , the average is usually a time average ; one observes and averages the velocity at a point over a period long enough for separate measurements to give effectively the same result . |
| 8 | One can imagine the expulsion to Earth ( of Melkor ) and the expulsion to Middle-earth ( of Galadriel ) coming , in a mind like Éomer 's , to seem much the same thing . |
| 9 | Ace was n't willing to trust Dubois further than she could throw him , since he seemed to use much the same methods as their enemies ; perhaps that meant he was no better than them . |
| 10 | Although both sides continued to use much the same arguments after 1900 as they had before , the question of competition was given a completely new dimension and greater urgency by the appearance of the first Monotype machines . |
| 11 | ‘ Terrorism is to be condemned from whatever quarter and in an effort to do so the same rules of descriptive terminology should be applied to all victims , ’ Mr McMichael added . |
| 12 | But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance . |
| 13 | The alternative way of pricing the TB is to substitute this yield into the present value formula ( 4.7 ) to give exactly the same issue price ( 97.51 ) as that using the discount rate formula ( 4.9 ) . |
| 14 | While the Baby Bells try to sell corporate customers advanced services using their own networks , AT&T offers the same lot of customers PABXs which allow them to do exactly the same things . |
| 15 | Like the French prisoners in the Napoleonic wars , used to do exactly the same thing . |
| 16 | First she had allowed herself to be manipulated by Ace , and now her father was trying to do exactly the same thing . |
| 17 | And er if if it 's appropriate for North Yorkshire to apply environmental constraints within the whole of its area , I 'm not talking about particular districts but in in the whole of its area , then it is appropriate for Leeds and Bradford and the metropolitan districts to do exactly the same thing . |
| 18 | Another simple way to continue a theme is to use exactly the same phrase , but beginning on another note , usually higher . |
| 19 | Vogts is expected to field largely the same team at Ibrox which played against Uruguay . |
| 20 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |
| 21 | It is made all the more aggravating when people living inside the city know how little it costs the authorities outside the city to do precisely the same job . |
| 22 | [ He will say later , ‘ If I 'd relaxed the standard there I 'd have had umpteen other people knocking on the door wanting to do precisely the same thing to save on trade effluent charges . ’ ] |
| 23 | This argument , which Foucault derives from Deleuze , although at the same time he tellingly invokes Sartre 's theoretical formulation designed to solve exactly the same problem , provides a way of avoiding the incommensurability of the relation of the event to the concept by allowing ‘ the disjunctive affirmation of both ’ — thus solving the problem that the concept , as a part of the language of generality , will inevitably travesty the event 's singularity : |
| 24 | And meanwhile Greece has to reckon with the fact that Turkey , on the other side of the Aegean , is planning to lure exactly the same sort of middle-class tourist with exactly the same combination of sunshine , classical ruins and mildly exotic food — and , it must be added , with lower costs and beaches many of which are less in need of de-whiffing . |
| 25 | The American Stock Exchange has changed its mind and decided not to suspend trading in the Class B and Class C common shares stocks of Wang Laboratories Inc at the close of business on March 31 , as had previously been announced : it says the decision reflects its view that investors will best be served by a continuation of the orderly trading provided by its auction market system , but warns brokers and prospective investors to review Wang 's public disclosures on its reorganisation plan thoroughly before leaping in , and to consider carefully the many uncertainties over the value — if any — of its present classes of common shares outstanding . |
| 26 | It makes no sense for two countries to build essentially the same satellite , and the surge-tide of new satellites from Europe and Japan is threatening to kill ideas that the Americans have had for years . |
| 27 | It is orthodox doctrine that the Archbishop of York ought not to hold exactly the same opinions as the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 28 | And I think we 're going to have exactly the same thing with this opting out system . |
| 29 | It is only necessary to behold thus the least phenomenon , however familiar , from a point a hair 's breadth aside from our habitual path a routine , to be overcome , enchanted by its beauty and significance . |
| 30 | We used to get exactly the same rebate , the only thing is we have to wait three months for it . |