Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 Bond had in May 1992 been sentenced to 2 years ' imprisonment [ see p. 38917 ] after being convicted on the same charge , but was released in August after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial [ see p. 39056 ] .
2 No station was allowed to take a prize in the same class for more than two successive years , but if a station which had done so was deemed worthy of being placed in the same class in a third year , it received a special first-class certificate but no money .
3 Economic information is not normally capable of being tested in the same way , but is still fairly reliable as the economy is so closely associated with material evidence .
4 Lord Griffiths , committee chairman , said : ‘ The major step is that clients should have the choice of being represented by the same lawyer throughout .
5 One difference between perceived-as appearances and presentation appearances is that whereas it does not make sense to talk of being mistaken about the former it does make sense to talk of being mistaken about the latter .
6 One difference between perceived-as appearances and presentation appearances is that whereas it does not make sense to talk of being mistaken about the former it does make sense to talk of being mistaken about the latter .
7 Epilepsy may be understood today but it is a long way from being accepted in the same way as diabetes , let alone short sight .
8 That influence , far from being confined to the former graveyard of St Giles ' , has spread and is spreading in every corner of the world .
9 Both gain from being surrounded by the same protective shell , though they diverge from one another in the precise thickness of shell that they ‘ prefer ’ .
10 They do not seem to be burdened with the same difficulties as the private profession , presumably partly because of the different image of the agency involved and the different expectations of the client involved .
11 First , this definition of topic seems to be based on the same ‘ topic = single term title ’ notion which we challenged earlier .
12 Groups of children need to be based in the same neighbourhood .
13 With DITRA matting , laying floor tiles is quick and simple , because once the sheets are cut to size and laid , the floor tile adhesive can be applied immediately , allowing the tiles to be fixed at the same time .
14 Are completion accounts to be prepared in the same way as management accounts or as quasi-statutory accounts ?
15 Those authorities continued to be faced with the same issues of escalating costs and deteriorating quality of service within the institutions .
16 Yes , in one five , erm they 're practising notes from Eynsham it does happen to be in Cherwell ward and not North ward , erm there is a booklet out about health and housing in Cutteslowe , and I wondered what the connection between , you know , not being on this committee , but these health action areas , and what in fact is happening in housing , because the director did assure me that other wards were going to be treated to the same erm treatment .
17 Certainly these associative processes can just as readily be interpreted as constituting an associative mechanism for categorization or concept formation in that they allow physically different stimuli to come to be treated in the same way .
18 There were criticisms of the way that fundamentally different subjects , such as the humanities and the sciences , were to be treated in the same way .
19 He added : ‘ Head injury patients will now have to be treated in the same way as before .
20 Were earnings to be treated in the same way as savings and gratuities ?
21 In Wolfenstein 's words ( 1955 ) , ‘ What the baby wants for pleasure has thus become as legitimate a demand as what he needs for his physical well-being , and is to be treated in the same way . ’
22 In this sense , the ‘ rules ’ of grammar appear to be treated in the same way as ‘ laws ’ in the physical sciences .
23 As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years .
24 On 16 March 1992 Wright applied for an extension of time in which to renew his application for leave to appeal against conviction and the application was listed to be heard on the same day as Christou 's appeal .
25 These young men — sanguine , bold , resourceful and opportunist as they are — do seem to be cut from the same cloth .
26 With some plain fabrics , all drops will need to be cut in the same direction in order to match a pronounced woven design , or to ensure that fabrics with a high sheen catch the light evenly .
27 At the opposite end of the scale is the barbel , and while he does not require to be outwitted to the same extent as bream , he does make landing him extremely difficult .
28 On the deletion of clause 54(4) , in-house benefits were to be taxed on the same basis as external benefits , i.e. , on the cost to the employer of providing the benefit .
29 But on 30 October the regents once more affirmed the rights of the Crown : they ordered Hugh de Neville , the Chief Justice of the Forest , to cause the royal forests to be kept by the same metes and bounds as they had been in the time of King John before the war between him and his barons .
30 In nine counties the forests were ordered to be kept by the same bounds as before the war between King John and his barons ; on 27 October 1228 the juries who had made the perambulations of the Yorkshire forests of Galtres and Farndale , and the forest between Ouse and Derwent , obediently amended their verdicts .
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