Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a stinging attack , Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown mocked Mr Major 's habit of looking on at soccer and cricket matches — and said the Premier did the same when it came to the economy . |
| 2 | The instrument of war was the national State and it mattered little whether that State was called the beachhead of a world working class or simply an ordinary republic : the disciplines remained the same . |
| 3 | I warmly welcome the opportunity to debate the many forward-looking suggestions the APB has put forward . |
| 4 | This will give people the opportunity to see the same actors play three different parts , and it will give me that essential ingredient of a good farce : strong ensemble acting . ’ |
| 5 | It was a pity he did n't get the opportunity to do the same against France in the final . |
| 6 | Students at the Belfast campus have the opportunity to enjoy the many social and recreational facilities available in the capital of Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | Students at the Belfast campus have the opportunity to enjoy the many social and recreational facilities available in the capital of Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | It was strange to see the Prince occupying the same segment of sofa where only the year before I had talked to his uncle . |
| 9 | Prices to the retailer stay the same . |
| 10 | The institutions remain the same . |
| 11 | Members of the senior management team who will be responsible for guiding and shaping the Board to meet the many challenges and opportunities of the future are … |
| 12 | The board has the same switches on it as I have on the rack , so if Bryan presses the board they light up for me too , so I can see what he 's got on . |
| 13 | The shell plays the same role for a snail as the stone house does for a caddis larva . |
| 14 | Spend the afternoon exploring the many shops and galleries , or take a leisurely boat cruise . |
| 15 | But even if the money remains the same , it seems unlikely that the services will . |
| 16 | The song may have changed , but the smell remains the same . |
| 17 | ( Initial results on both infants reported in the text used the same procedure but with non-competition trials only and a target contrast of 88% ) . |
| 18 | take her and the , and the vet said the same , where that place is er a bad , a couple of years ago she had erm tick |
| 19 | Here were people from the field facing the same issues . |
| 20 | Thus the bowl will change its location , whilst that for the pedestal remains the same ( i.e. the permanent location for both the bowl and pedestal ) . |
| 21 | She was now looking round at both their houses distastefully , though the houses looked the same as usual , snow on the roofs , snow a foot deep over the yards , snow poised on every twig and leaf , a cloud from the central-heating chimney hovering calmly over each residence . |
| 22 | Let us now make the question more precise , and ask whether the experience has the same effect at any time , or whether there are particular ‘ sensitive periods ’ at which it will be more influential than at others . |
| 23 | Both the phosphorylation of receptors and their absence means that it takes more of the drug to obtain the same effect . |
| 24 | In the fourteenth century the Cloud-author makes the same point quite explicitly : The Cloud-author also provides an acute analysis of the way these terms interact in a continuum of activity both external and internal which leads finally to the possibility of the gift of contemplation . |
| 25 | It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below . |
| 26 | When the females were promiscuous , the sperm of each male would have to compete with those of other males , and the male producing the most sperm was most likely to generate offspring . |
| 27 | How far has the idea of the University purchasing the former Warburg Library building in Heilwigstraße on the River Alster progressed ? |
| 28 | When the researchers re-imaged the same area , they found they had created small groups of three atoms , arranged in a triangle , which appeared higher than their neighbours . |
| 29 | What evidence there is from the USA suggests that local authorities there are simply not prepared , either physically or mentally , to deal with the new service demands of the exurban inmigrants ( Green , 1983 ) although work in Canada , using a game-playing approach , has tended to suggest that the inmigrants have the same service demands as the existing inhabitants ( Joseph and Smit , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | The DD-10 has the same features as the DD-1EX plus the following . |