Example sentences of "[vb infin] to the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A magazine with the vision to run these two very different pieces in the same issue , in the knowledge that they could both appeal to the same reader , deserves applause . |
2 | The proportion responding that they thought they could trust the United Sates " a great deal " was 62% ( up from 45% in 1975 ) , a figure not matched by any other country : the closest was Norway , which 37% thought they could trust to the same extent . |
3 | Two people may suffer pain from the same apparent origin ; and yet their pain will not yield to the same analgesic . |
4 | Those who have recourse to the deus ex machina of lethal rays or thunderbolts from outer space may incline to the former view , but only at the expense of disregarding the abundant evidence in the stratigraphic record of a correlation between mass extinctions and physical events on earth ( Hallam , 1981c ) . |
5 | The case roles have been modified since Fillmore 's original definition to include restrictions such as these , but the restriction lists grow to an interminable length and the technique is still unable to recognise that two expressions ( e.g. ’ the woman ’ and ’ she ’ ) may refer to the same individual . |
6 | The terms ‘ old age ’ and ‘ retirement ’ are often used interchangeably , but they do not necessarily refer to the same things . |
7 | Children evidently realize this quite early in the process of language acquisition , and accept the fact that different words may refer to the same entity — e.g. , our dog , Fred , that wretched animal , and so on . |
8 | Clearly , to yield contrary sentences , a pair of colour terms must refer to the same area of uniform colour ; but it is far from obvious how to devise linguistic contexts which will guarantee this . |
9 | If this was so , then ‘ Yahweh ’ , ‘ God the Father ’ and ‘ Allah ’ would all refer to the same God , in the way that ‘ The President ’ , ‘ George Bush ’ and ‘ Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces ’ all refer to the same person . |
10 | For a new or growing brand , the objectives will refer to the same sort of aspects of the market situation , but will be more concerned with increasing awareness , in developing a favourable view of the product , and persuading new buyers to try the product . |
11 | Often the same or a similar fault can occur to the same aircraft a number of sectors later . |
12 | In peacetime such processes do not occur to the same extent . |
13 | No , no , it does n't work to the same standards does it ? |
14 | You 've got ta stick to the same order that I showed you this morning , yeah ? |
15 | Therefore , he must stick to the same story and tell the same lie as when he had applied for his British passport . |
16 | Still unaware that barn owls are notoriously difficult , I thought that although my experience with Barny had been unsuccessful , to say the least , I should stick to the same breed . |
17 | Yeah , so if you had if I try and draw it much the same if you had that and let's choose let's choose er , well le , let's keep the same let's keep to the same carbon chain if you had that the carbon skeleton is exactly the same the only way it differs is that the O H group here is on carbon one of that chain that we 've chosen where as here , it 's on carbon two of that chain . |
18 | The different methods do not react to the same types of buried feature , and are thus to some extent complementary . |
19 | The buildings will all look the same , the same companies will sell the same goods in all their shops , the people , apart from trivial physical differences and , possibly , their own languages , will all aspire to the same condition of affluence and to look the same as everybody else . |
20 | The wrasses are territorial , and the same grouper may later return to the same cleaner wrasse . |
21 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
22 | However , please note that holidays do not necessarily return to the same port of departure . |
23 | The fact that a wide number of manufacturers work to the same pattern means that the caterer who is topping up need not return to the same source for the top-up . |
24 | These results are in line with the knowledge that not everyone will respond to the same remedy , as some individuals are more sensitive to a remedy than others for whom it is not indicated . |
25 | Women lose this image of attractiveness with ageing , a process that men do not experience to the same degree . |
26 | Later causes of decline are clearly different , and do not relate to the same age-groups or causes of death , and there are better data to argue over . |
27 | 2 ) In the relationship of " hole " to " block " two touching faces indicate a through hole , if the faces do not relate to the same end of the hole . |
28 | The records in the same section can not randomize to the same address , so that synonyms arise by records in different sections having the same remainder . |
29 | But he does n't veer to the same extremes as Prince Charles . |
30 | From one month and four month rates we can derive the three month interest rate which , if prevailing in one month 's time , would lead to the same return being achieved from investing either in a combination of a one month deposit followed by a three month deposit , or in a four month deposit from the outset . |