Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
| 2 | The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously . |
| 3 | However , it can be understood as recommending that one live in such ; way that the various aspects of one 's being are given the same degree of power as they have of innate authority . |
| 4 | Individuals can apply for meals themselves — all applications are given the same consideration . |
| 5 | Cations of elements which only form one stable ion are given the same name as the element . |
| 6 | All volumes containing modules of the same charge code are given the same name , as specified by the user , but the serial number at the end of the volume name is incremented for each new volume that is opened . |
| 7 | One by one , calves and adults are given the same treatment . |
| 8 | Only a little thought will show what a nonsense this is , for , as we have just seen , no two individuals manifest their illnesses in exactly the same way even if they are given the same disease label . |
| 9 | The parent is captured and its offspring are given the same marks ; one nick on each side of the upper beak for the Vintners ; one on one side for the Dyers ; none at all for the Royal cygnets . |
| 10 | And Petrarch lived quite near here in Avignon , and I am seeing the same cypresses and oleanders … |
| 11 | In other words , we are seeing the same film , but it is the negative that is now being presented to us . |
| 12 | Do n't confuse this with the time-up bell , especially when many areas are in close proximity and all are using the same type of bell . |
| 13 | The newspaper coverage may have contributed to bringing the crime into the public domain , but essentially the press and the police are using the same repertoire of scripts . |
| 14 | Now there are less than 30,000 and those 30,000 are producing the same amount of milk as the higher number did previously . |
| 15 | We gladly accept all these rightful strictures and if we are to enjoy the same success with councils we have to accept their bye-laws , too . |
| 16 | The more people there are helping the less time it takes . |
| 17 | All three patterns , the written , diagrammatical and the digital , are knitting the same shape , a rectangle . |
| 18 | Further down the beach , women and children are trolling the same waters with nets collecting coal dust to try to earn enough money to feed their children . |
| 19 | As a result , more than 70 per cent of the population now have a Current Account and are enjoying the many advantages it gives them — cheques , instant cash , Standing Orders and Direct Debits . |
| 20 | Success Sunderland are adopting the same formation that brought Ipswich success in the 70s , and the results have been encouraging enough to persuade the 37-year-old boss to call off his search for a midfield playmaker . |
| 21 | We are rowing the same boat , I think — ’ |
| 22 | The tops and bottoms of Jack 's windows are sloping the same amount as the hillside . |
| 23 | Whether in Ghana , the Philippines , Peru , Poland , India or Brazil , the same inflexible , totalising and unreasonable prescriptions are proffered by the experts of the IMF and the World Bank ; the aims of Gatt are to impose the same programmes — ‘ macro-economic correctives ’ , ‘ structural adjustment plans ’ — a more intensive use of resources , more exploitation of the people , a competitive demolition of the very elements of life , in order that countries may ‘ survive ’ the universal reign of the market . |
| 24 | When Montaigne and Bacon stress the determining power of social custom they are developing the same idea of an order prior to and determining of consciousness , though now of course with the crucial difference that it is a non-teleological order , historical rather than divine , material rather than metaphysical . |
| 25 | It holds more true of some of us than of others , that in the struggle to make it new we are writing the same book all our lives ; and with Dostoevsky this truth is very true . |
| 26 | ‘ So you , ’ he said , his mien so dangerous that Mary beside him , fearful , put a restraining hand on his arm , ‘ must be the Marquess of Blaine , seeing that you are escorting the former Miss Maybelle Foy , of Chicago . |
| 27 | After that , a top executive tends to get stale , in Pearce 's opinion , because ‘ you 're seeing the same problems coming up for the second , third or even fourth time and you begin to think you 've done it all before . |
| 28 | We 're using the same formulation . |
| 29 | The implication has been all along that they 're using the same United States manufacturing source but in fact there are one or two discrepancies here , erm , because the value is so high , I 'm actually sort of going through and looking at everything pretty closely , and they 've changed the basis so wow , . |
| 30 | Erm , we 're , we 're using the same agenda which is why conf confusion about venue on the front cos I said to my secretary |