Example sentences of "to [adv] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use of a chart prevents repetition of work that has already been carried out by blocking any attempt to reapply the same rule in the same place . |
| 2 | The opening paragraph of The Autocar 's November 1965 test of a privately owned car ( to much the same spec as our example ) read : ‘ Few readers indeed will get this far before turning to the data page which follows , for the name of AC Cobra is synonymous with performance . |
| 3 | Thus , we are prompted to suppose that an unspecified industrial strategy on the one hand is so like matters of health and safety for the purposes of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , or like employment protection for the purposes of the Employment Protection Act 1975 on the other , as to amount to much the same kind of thing as they are ; and so to accept the view that , just as the second is a subject for joint regulation by management and unions or of prior discussion between management and unions , so too should the first . |
| 4 | The Archbishop of Canterbury 's report on urban priority areas ( UPAs ) comes to much the same conclusion as the inner area studies and the Scarman Report : ‘ We can put forward a confident and melancholy generalisation — that the UPAs are places of severe and increasing deprivation . |
| 5 | Up and down the canal , as far as my binoculars can reach , the water is white with floating cottony flecks , and we can be sure that they have carpeted the ground to much the same radius in other directions too . |
| 6 | His speech made clear that he had been brought reluctantly to much the same view as his Director of Propaganda . |
| 7 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 8 | This is , I suspect , the beginning of a process that will lead to much the same outcome as was brought about by the hundreds of Government amendments — sometimes running into four figures — that have been tabled to similar Bills . |
| 9 | And the work would then be completed to approximately the same timescale that we , that we deadlined on the . |
| 10 | Pupils entering S1 in August 1994 will be able to join the pupils from our own Junior School if they have already studied one of our own two languages to approximately the same level . |
| 11 | He invited me to not a few tea parties and was very gracious and talked most sociably . ’ |
| 12 | Whatever their ultimate truth or falsity , beliefs and ideologies could thus be subjected to exactly the same kind of functional analysis as other social phenomena . |
| 13 | The Bill could lead to exactly the same kind of problem . |
| 14 | Lyotard points to exactly the same structure in Marx , who could likewise never complete Capital . |
| 15 | They live their first few months in the river , then migrate downstream to the sea ; they spend two or three years in feeding and growing out at sea , during which they cover thousands of miles ; and when mature , they migrate back to exactly the same river , and same tributary , as they were born in . |
| 16 | Their behaviour patterns can also be extremely individual , so that two autistic children with exactly the same characteristics may react differently to exactly the same situation . |
| 17 | And she said that erm Gordon , her husband erm he has no sight in one eye due to due to exactly the same thing not patching erm , an eye at the , the right age . |
| 18 | Yet , with very few exceptions , they succeed in getting back to exactly the same stretch of river where they hatched . |
| 19 | They 're then taken upstream to exactly the same stretch of river they were picked up from two weeks ago and released — clearly happy to back in the territory they recognise … until this time next year , when they 'll be collected once again for another short break in their unlikely holiday location , just off the M25 … |
| 20 | And these visits managed to reduce her to exactly the same stage of trembling , silent , frustrated anxiety that she had endured throughout her childhood ; she felt , each time , that she had gone back , right back to the start , and that every step forward must be painfully retraced . |
| 21 | In the afternoon we 're on the Palmer charge and believe it or not he hits his tee-shot at the 17th to exactly the same spot again , and turns to me and says , ‘ Before you say anything , Tip , do n't tell me it 's a 6-iron . ’ |
| 22 | While the view which I earlier called crude materialism is not compatible with Althusser 's general position , it would be remarkable if he were to relegate the economic aspects of society to exactly the same status as everything else . |
| 23 | The hope cherished by the NIH team is that recombinant vaccinia viruses may be used to combat hepatitis B virus in Africa and Asia according to exactly the same strategy that succeeded so brilliantly with smallpox . |
| 24 | There is widespread geographical variation — provision is much stronger in the North-West and the East Midlands for example , compared with the South and South-East — and the number in higher education has not expanded to nearly the same extent . |
| 25 | In spite of the spread of quantitative , physically inspired methods , and a growing preoccupation with process , geomorphologists have not put their discipline on an energy balance basis to nearly the same extent , and probably with good reason . |
| 26 | Maintenance : I run a two-week rota with 20% of the water being changed for rainwater and boiled tap water , brought to roughly the same temperature as that within the aquariums . |
| 27 | Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser . |
| 28 | ‘ There is no reason why they should not be , ’ she said , pointing to how they had access to precisely the same teaching methods . |
| 29 | An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress . |
| 30 | Vigorous exercise reduces the risk of an overweight person contracting one of these conditions to almost the same level as a non-overweight person . |