Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [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 | I warmly welcome the opportunity to debate the many forward-looking suggestions the APB has put forward . |
3 | 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 . ’ |
4 | It was a pity he did n't get the opportunity to do the same against France in the final . |
5 | Students at the Belfast campus have the opportunity to enjoy the many social and recreational facilities available in the capital of Northern Ireland . |
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 | It was strange to see the Prince occupying the same segment of sofa where only the year before I had talked to his uncle . |
8 | Prices to the retailer stay the same . |
9 | 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 … |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The shell plays the same role for a snail as the stone house does for a caddis larva . |
12 | Spend the afternoon exploring the many shops and galleries , or take a leisurely boat cruise . |
13 | But even if the money remains the same , it seems unlikely that the services will . |
14 | The song may have changed , but the smell remains the same . |
15 | ( 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% ) . |
16 | 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 |
17 | Here were people from the field facing the same issues . |
18 | 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 ) . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Both the phosphorylation of receptors and their absence means that it takes more of the drug to obtain the same effect . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | How far has the idea of the University purchasing the former Warburg Library building in Heilwigstraße on the River Alster progressed ? |
24 | There was silence until the soldiers had passed , and Collins slowly withdrew his hand from his coat pocket ; glancing through the sliding glass panel , Patrick saw the driver do the same . |
25 | The driver did the same . |
26 | Four bars leading up to the chorus using the same notes as before , but a more basic pattern and an octave down , until the chorus comes in loud and heavy , a complete contrast with its barrages of driving sixteenth notes . |
27 | At a short distance from Monarch Hill towards the hills we find Blackman 's Dane , by 1731 this had been altered to Hickman 's Dane , the term having the same meaning as Dene . |
28 | If traditional metaphor brings together two semantic fields by means of a similarity of signifieds , then the pun does the same by virtue of a homonymy or similarity of signifiers . |
29 | As we shall see , the attempt to employ the same concepts to describe quite different tasks was a common phenomenon among young nationalists . |
30 | ( make ) Both in the same script : the difference in the attempt to spell the same word indicates fairly clearly a weak visual memory . |