Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb -s] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A beginner learns the same basic kicks in taekwondo as he would in karate . |
| 2 | Such a figure gives the same sort of support to the prediction that the volatility of aggregate demand and its impact on real output are negatively related , as was found by Lucas ( 1973 ) . |
| 3 | A magnification or a diminution reveals the same pattern . |
| 4 | There is no reason to use a difficult and probably expensive analytical method if a much simpler and quicker visual examination under a microscope provides the same answer . |
| 5 | The same survey found that the more a person smokes the less faith that person has in believing that he or she can stop . |
| 6 | A person commits the latter offence if he ‘ by any false pretence … with intent to defraud , obtains from any other person any chattel , money , or valuable security , or causes or procures any money to be paid , or any chattel or valuable security to be delivered to himself or to any other person for the use or benefit or on account of himself or any other person . ’ |
| 7 | This provision is to cover the situation where a person works the same number of hours within , say 4 days , instead of 5 . |
| 8 | When making an interim care order a court has the same duty to consider arrangements for contact as it does when making a final care order . |
| 9 | Now I know that handwriting changes slightly as men age , but the essential character of a signature remains the same . |
| 10 | The larger a firm becomes the more cost efficient it can become and hence prices can be kept below those competitors . |
| 11 | What as as I said to you twenty percent of the messages a word sounds the same . |
| 12 | While a modem acts as a two-way interface for text and numeric data between a computer and a telephone line , a codec does the same job with multimedia information and especially motion video . |
| 13 | Such a construction fits the few facts given in the early biographical sources and such facts as have emerged from the recently published documentary material in a way that the traditional account does not . |
| 14 | A mimic does the same . |