Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop . |
| 2 | And I would make just the same kind of point about the word " family " . |
| 3 | His intention is to experience an ‘ as if ’ context — in a game two friends may agree to behave as if they are opponents ; in drama two friends may make exactly the same agreement . |
| 4 | The business sale agreement will usually provide that , if a VAT liability arises from a supply which the parties expected to be outside the scope of VAT , the consideration will be VAT exclusive where this is caused by a breach of warranty by Newco ( for example , that it will carry on the same kind of business as the vendor after completion ) . |
| 5 | Young birds learn from their parents and will carry on the same method . |
| 6 | Provided you know how to use it , a cheap hand-held version will do much the same thing . ’ |
| 7 | Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored . |
| 8 | Should you decide to consult a professional aromatherapist ( see the list of professional bodies in the appendix ) , do not expect exactly the same treatment from every aromatherapist . |
| 9 | and as the same thing applies to the knee exactly the same thing , wound there you keep the knee bent a little bit and you can do exactly the same bandage like a figure of eight , okay ? |
| 10 | You would do exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 11 | Now they 're helping us do exactly the same thing a couple of hundred years on . |
| 12 | It 's erm in fact a quote from Wilson , the founder of Socio-biology , the mo in other words modern er Darwinism as oppo as , as a applied to animal behaviour and Wilson 's point in saying that sex is an anti-social force in evolution was to suggest that what is really happening is that if natural selection is a question of the reproductive success of individual genes , then individuals should be motivated to produce as many copies of those genes as they possibly can , and that will inevitably bring them into competition with other members of the species who wan na do exactly the same thing . |
| 13 | Mind you , I suppose if the others were in they 'd do exactly the same thing would n't they ? |
| 14 | Equations ( 6.9 ) and ( 6.15 ) will give exactly the same value for the share price . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , people do not feel quite the same craving to buy products made of recycled materials . |
| 16 | Members of the public , that is : public figures , says the report , need not expect quite the same degree of sanctuary . |
| 17 | It was a great experience but I 'm not sure I 'd do precisely the same trip again . ’ |
| 18 | To refer to a method we shall be discussing more fully in Chapter 3 , we can see much the same sort of development with respect to the survey . |
| 19 | Visualize how it is going to fit in with its neighbours : the stems may be rough-trimmed , but you will prune them later in early spring , not now , and then the new growth will follow much the same line of the present branches . |
| 20 | Raising a languid hand towards a grey-haired woman seated in an armchair beside the dog , and who looked as though she might patronise just the same sort of charity shops as Ellie herself , he introduced , ‘ My mother . ’ |
| 21 | Each writer does not follow exactly the same order in the arrangement of his material . |
| 22 | So you can do you can use exactly the same system you used on that for working out each one and see what happens . |
| 23 | One ‘ slot ’ can be home to as many as five satellites as long as they do not use exactly the same frequency . |
| 24 | Ecological theory holds that no two species can occupy exactly the same niche . |
| 25 | ‘ I was thinking I 'd like exactly the same thing , ’ she confessed , giving him a radiant smile . |
| 26 | Notice also that there is an alternative and syntactically simpler way of expressing the second version , which is : ( 12 ) Haberup angered his golem We can see exactly the same type of ambiguity in : ( 13 ) Reg ran the engine dry The adverbal adjective version of ( 13 ) corresponding to the question what did Reg do to the engine ? tells us that Reg reduced the engine to a certain unsatisfactory state ( though he may at least have had the sense to stop at that point ) . |
| 27 | The eyes that see ourselves see always the same creature throughout life ; in our own mind the child and the youth and the mature man are the same . |
| 28 | Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend |
| 29 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 30 | ‘ Dead ’ saints could perform exactly the same function as living ones . |