Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A year later when I had Katie and I was married , I did n't want " to go to hospital in case I got the same treatment , but they were totally different .
2 Yet when I step off the bus at the Coronet cinema I get the same lurch as when I first left home .
3 With a prayer of thankfulness I rowed the few yards to her , made fast the dinghy to a cleat on her transom , and climbed on board .
4 I could only lie there staring , burning more pages to hold back the dark , because every time I closed my eyes I saw the same thing : the dark shadow of a manlike creature with shoulders curving up in two great arcs on either side of its head …
5 Some statisticians dislike this property : they prefer symmetric measures of association which take the same value whichever way round the causal effect is presumed to run .
6 The collapse of the communist regimes of eastern Europe prompted the formation of new regional groupings and alliances as well as giving a new lease of life to existing organizations which straddled the former east-west divide .
7 Some success is now claimed for the ‘ magnetic ’ water treatment units which have the same effect on suspended matter .
8 It was rather a coincidence that she was wearing a dark blue guernsey exactly like Laura 's , with a neck which necessitated the same blindfold struggle to get it off About the whole incident Richard felt no dissatisfaction and certainly no regret .
9 The opposition objected to the law , saying , among other things , that it did not provide for " equitable participation " of both sides on the electoral bodies , and that the FSLN would receive most of the money from a government campaigning fund to be distributed to the parties which won the most votes in the 1984 elections ( which the opposition had boycotted ) .
10 The fruit is the enlargement of Magritte 's known oeuvre by as many as 200 works , never previously illustrated , which Sylvester and his team have recovered from private collections , and a serious attempt to unravel that most taxing issue of the existence of different versions of the same composition and of different images which carry the same title .
11 Make lists of words which have the same stress pattern , keeping the lists as consistent as possible with regards to CV pattern and segmental length .
12 The two numbers should not be compared because the first refers to words which have the same word boundaries , and the second refers to words in the same region .
13 Homographs , or words which have the same spelling but very diverse meanings , must be identified .
14 The result of the previous given check list was , for example , as follows : Put the words which have the same sound into established lists .
15 He exposed cells in culture to influenza virus , showed that they were resistant to infection with certain other viruses , and isolated from his cultures a protein which conferred the same resistance on fresh cells .
16 Although Scotty is reputed to have recorded over 500 sides with Elvis , it 's those early sessions which evoke the most passion : Phillips ' Sun recordings where Presley was at his raw best and where the band was allowed to gel , with improvisation and vitality the order of the day .
17 However , the difficult condition which requires the most consideration because it is not that unlikely is one in which the operator is faced with a situation where various things have gone wrong naturally or by inadvertent human interference in the plant or instrumentation .
18 Israel is thrilled at the pace of absorption , and accuses the Arab world of manufacturing false conflict and fear ; a conflict that is whipping up greater hostility among two peoples who claim the same land .
19 She had seen that instantly the next afternoon ; in Rachel 's eyes she recognised the same melting joy as she had seen in Lisa 's .
20 Study the competition , the commercials and the advertisements of other manufacturers who make the same thing .
21 ‘ Because I suffered through a class on American nineteenth-century poetry with a professor who did the same thing . ’
22 The earl of Huntingdon 's household , in 1564 , included two yeomen who received the same wages as gentlemen , i.e. 26s. 8d. per annum , and twenty-two more at £1 .
23 See the more winners you ride the less weight less you could claim .
24 In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet .
25 In an experiment he taught the same period to two groups .
26 In effect he adopted the same methods to deal with worsening financial crises over the 1960s .
27 She said if I used Head and Shoulders now on this it would revert back because it has such a sa a strong P H balance in Head and Shoulders it has the same effect as reversing it .
28 Unfortunately his exposition was not easy to read and it was Hamilton 's quaternions which gained the more attention .
29 After all , we would be surprised if the subjects of physics or history were defined in disregard of theoretical ideas and descriptive facts coining from the scholarly disciplines which bear the same name .
30 Section 268(1) provides that associated operations means any two or more operations of any kind , being : ( 1 ) operations which affect the same property , or one of which affects some property and the other or others of which affect property which represents , whether directly or indirectly , that property , or income arising from that property , or any property representing accumulations of any such income ; or ( 2 ) any two operations of which one is effected with reference to the other , or with a view to enabling the other to be effected , or facilitating it being effected , and any further operations having a like relation to any of those two , and so on whether those operations are effected by the same person or different persons , and whether or not they are simultaneous .
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