Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strategy is to sell the plug compatibles for less than the price of the equivalent IBM machine but to make them at least as powerful , or to provide more for the same money . |
| 2 | Even if an agreed definition can be arrived at and some core features identified , it need not be the case that all forms of creative expression demand precisely the same set of mental operations or depend equally upon the same intellectual qualities . |
| 3 | Everyone in the board room was either clearing his throat , or shifting position in his seat , or doing both at the same time , which is actually rather difficult . |
| 4 | Such practices include cultivating on steep slopes so the topsoil runs off when the rains come , or ploughing downhill with the same end result . |
| 5 | If terrestrial zodiacs ore the product of our own imagination , we can either dismiss them as pure delusion , or work positively with the same idea , seeing their description and charting as a work of art in its own right . |
| 6 | Young lovers strolled quietly beneath the trees , or sat together on the few wooden benches , daring to snatch the odd , discreet kiss or embrace . |
| 7 | So , Lessing maintained , the first kind of truth can not be demonstrated by the second , nor brought down to the same level . |
| 8 | But she knew then that , plagued and plagued again by the same thought during her fretful waking night-time hours , she just could not leave it . |
| 9 | ‘ And land up in the same condition as you did ? |
| 10 | A good agency interviewer will look through it and pick up on the same gaps and discrepancies which will appear to the job interviewer but will not be looking with any one particular job in mind . |
| 11 | The band failed to advise said fans , who have endured a five-year wait to see them play live in the UK , that tickets went on sale last Saturday , and sold out on the same day . |
| 12 | Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way . |
| 13 | Press seam allowance to the wrong side on the lining and notch out in the same way . |
| 14 | We checked the pH by an electronic meter and came up with the same reading . |
| 15 | He repeated his question , and came up against the same smiling ignorance . |
| 16 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
| 17 | The recent advances in technology have combined tablets and flat displays to bring input and output together on the same surface , known as electronic paper . |
| 18 | At Finsbury Park tube a shambling white man comes up , blood from a cut drying on his brow , trying to beg with dignity and stand up at the same time . |
| 19 | Reports said a SAM 727 had just touched down at El Dorado international airport when an Air France Boeing 747 came roaring over it and landed ahead on the same runway . |
| 20 | You can , if you like , take up the floor boards and fill underneath with the same granular insulation material used in the loft , but that is a rather difficult job — not one to attempt without help . |
| 21 | In a machine operating at 6000 stitches per minute , the needle thread has to accelerate to a speed close to 100 mph ( 160kph ) , stop , and accelerate backwards to the same speed , and all at a cycle rate of up to 100 times per second ! |
| 22 | The groups of women artists who met and worked collaboratively during the same period are less clearly referenced in standard texts . |
| 23 | The people were not necessarily born and brought up in the same neighbourhood ; many are upwardly mobile ( unlike the inner-city people ) . |
| 24 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |
| 25 | All of the characters are strong and stay basically in the same tone except for Estella who undergoes a very sudden character change in the revised ending . |
| 26 | We by-passed the town and went straight to the former station , which is actually not in the town itself , but at Minllyn . |
| 27 | There are many lay people who share and live out of the same insight . |
| 28 | He was just getting out of the car and he could just get back in it and move out with the same expertise . |
| 29 | The proportions and detail of these orders are some of the best work of its type in Rome and illustrate clearly the Roman constructional method using arch and order together with the former bearing the load and the latter as a decorative feature ( 127 ) . |
| 30 | Why did n't they wait for the passengers to get off first , instead of squeezing themselves , their sacks of wheat and bicycles on at the same time that others were dragging their possessions off ? |