Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The versatile artist raises the question of relationship between the arts , and how far they can be considered to have the same or similar aims . |
| 2 | What remains of the headquarters team should then be reorganised to make the most of computers , and exposed to the sort of cost-cutting techniques usually associated with the shop floor . |
| 3 | The herb border can be designed to follow the same principles as those used for the herbaceous or mixed border ; small plants will not thank you for planting them next to towering or buxom plants — they will be smothered in no time . |
| 4 | It occurred to National Certificate staff that instead of programming say twenty subject assessors to different centres all over the country on a particular day , all twenty could be programmed to visit the same centre on the same day . |
| 5 | Parents faced with the choice of caring from their offspring or coming to work would be expected to choose the former . |
| 6 | He can also be expected to make the most of whatever face-savers the mediators feel they can offer him . |
| 7 | Members of the RIBA may be expected to follow the same pattern after 1992 . |
| 8 | A cut in taxes that raised residents ' incomes by the same amount as the lump-sum grant would be expected to produce the same amount as the lump-sum grant . |
| 9 | For example , brothers and sisters who differ in age share genes to the same extent as dizygotic twins , and so in a purely genetic disease would be expected to have the same concordance rates — but they do not . |
| 10 | For instance , sibling nodes ( nodes which have some hierarchical relation to the same node ) might be expected to have the same pattern of ‘ target node names ’ . |
| 11 | This extends to the appointment of ancillary and technical staff , who would be expected to have the same sympathetic qualities , and to making a case for help from the authority 's teaching and support services or for a welfare assistant to help with an individual pupil . |
| 12 | For example , it might seem curious that a member of the RICS could be a director of a commercial company offering a range of services to the public , yet not be permitted to occupy the same position in a company offering the very skill for which he has been trained . |
| 13 | However , the formation of unisons is not always satisfactory or possible ( for example , in Example 140 above each voice could hardly be made to play the same unison D , for contrapuntal reasons , nor could it sound completely satisfactory ) . |
| 14 | Great Britain , for their part , will be looking to recapture the many admirable qualities which brought them that improbable victory after Steve Hampson 's early dismissal reduced them to 12 men . |
| 15 | However , at a more abstract level , the level at which dog : cat , church : cinema , oak : ash and tea : coffee can all be said to manifest the same relation , it is of fundamental significance . |
| 16 | On the basis of this identity of reference , they can be said to convey the SAME MESSAGE . |
| 17 | In this passage , Wittgenstein mentions one argument for saying that the thought is not the same as the sentence — two sentences ‘ one in English and one in French , may be said to express the same thought ; since the thought is the same but the sentences different the thought is not the same as either of the sentences . |
| 18 | ‘ For many members of the team this may be their one and only opportunity of playing in a major fixture at Twickenham and they will certainly be wanting to make the most of it . |
| 19 | In Section 2 he rejects the suggestion , conveyed by the exclamation , ‘ Surely a similarity must strike us , or we should n't be moved to use the same word ’ , that some act must precede the act of using the word ; and in Sections 5 and 10 he talks about the ‘ mistake ’ labelled by the word ‘ to make ’ as it occurs in the question , ‘ What made you call this ‘ red ’ ? ’ ) |
| 20 | Last season he was trained by Oliver Sherwood , who turned him into one of the best novice hurdlers and now Henrietta Knight will be attempting to do the same over fences . |
| 21 | Every MS-DOS computer has a clock that can be used to do the same job as a stop watch . |
| 22 | Similarly , the letters " y " ; and " i " may be used to represent the same sound ( Kaiseria or Kayseria ) . |
| 23 | Many different words may be used to represent the same concept . |
| 24 | SynOptics Communications Inc has announced an order from the Unipart Group of Companies for its System 3000 intelligent hubs , which will be used to spearhead the latter 's migration from IBM Corp mainframe systems to personal computer local networks : the order comes via network integrator Harris Adacom , and comprises seven System 3000 hubs which will be used to run Token Ring and Ethernet ; the total contract is worth £250,000 , and SynOptics says it won the order ahead of competition from Cabletron and IBM . |
| 25 | With passenger figures for 1992 up 66% on the previous year following the reopening of the railway from Bitton to Oldland Common , the £30,000 legal costs of obtaining the Light Railway Order have been all but cleared , and now a £10,000 loan has been taken out to purchase half-a-mile of rail which will be used to relay the former Midland Railway line south towards Bath — the flat-bottom rail being laid on concrete sleepers already in store at Bitton Station . |
| 26 | ( g ) Indemnities An indemnity clause may be used to achieve the same effect as an exclusion clause . |
| 27 | I disagree with the idea that someone on my salary should be asked to contribute the same as the person next door , who is probably earning only half as much . |
| 28 | Though they were spoken for my benefit , I could not be assumed to share the same norms . |
| 29 | If this were true , then men and women who are married to each other could be assumed to have the same standard of living . |
| 30 | Which processes should primarily be supported to gain the most benefits for the IPS as a whole ? |