Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | what you see is what you get — what you see on the screen should be printed looking exactly the same . |
| 32 | GCHQ began in 1919 as the Government Code and Cipher School ( GCCS ) , picking up the few remaining members of the army and naval teams of codebreakers who had operated in Britain during World War I. A very small team was formed , working on a tiny annual budget in MI6 's offices at 56 Broadway , in London . |
| 33 | Two days later she 'd be back , picking up the same rubber skirt and saying , half you got ziss in one leetle size bigger ? |
| 34 | An emergency FEC meeting later the same evening endorsed the call . |
| 35 | Now let's keep the force the same , say we 've got a Mini engine providing us , just running it steady at three thousand R P M. Pushing out the same amount of force , keep the force the same , this time we put a smaller mass , we 've got a Mini engine and you 've put it on your pushbike . |
| 36 | There are , the article reveals , scientists who pad a reference list of their publications by publishing almost the same material in several journals , altering the title a bit , dropping a paragraph or adding one , or doing the same with a table or graph . |
| 37 | Indeed , I recall one occasion when I heard him and Tony Benn separately on the radio and they were expressing essentially the same opinions about the same issues . |
| 38 | One question which has concerned psycholinguists for many years is why there exist in English ( and in other languages ) several alternative syntactic options ( or paraphrases ) for expressing essentially the same information . |
| 39 | Within this continuum , however , other proverbs are planted , sounding much the same as the others but more original and so closer to Tolkien 's own intention . |
| 40 | This will be a truly gigantic equation in this instance , for it will have to describe not only the electron and the microscope but also the observer peering down the latter 's eyepiece . |
| 41 | By 1988 , total US aid since 1981 had risen to some US$3 billion , with the pattern of allocations remaining much the same . |
| 42 | Because once the ship come up that 's still a certain amount of water in the hold which that must be , cos then once you heave your door up then of course you load your ship again and then cos your ship was going down the more mud you put in , course mud is heavier than water |
| 43 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 44 | The majority were arboreal frugivores occupying much the same niche as equivalent-sized monkeys today . |
| 45 | it does n't matter what building society you go to , you 're gon na be paying basically the same rate . |
| 46 | She was the best horse at Ascot where she got disqualified and she was brilliant at Sandown when people said she would n't handle going much the same as it will be at York . ’ |
| 47 | Yeah well the thing is that something 's got ta shift because we 've got we 've got all these bloody flights going out the same time |
| 48 | At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come . |
| 49 | ( He was to keep audiences waiting almost the same period in Rain Man many years hence . ) |
| 50 | and his trusty assistant , Detective Sergeant William Bird , were speeding up the same road . |
| 51 | On his orders , the Ironclaw Big'uns prowled the burning streets gathering up the half drunken Orcs and dragging the Goblins back into the battlelines . |
| 52 | Facing much the same problem in 1929 , a Labour government agreed to introduce the Alternative Vote ( AV ) . |
| 53 | Was getting down the same as getting up and could you do it in platforms and slingbacks ? |
| 54 | Was getting down the same as getting up and could you do it in platforms and slingbacks ? |
| 55 | Always glad to speak to her parent , Leith came away from the phone half wishing just the same that her mother had not rung . |
| 56 | The use of a petrol block on a diesel engine is not a problem as the parts are exactly the same The problem is with the crankshaft The diesel unit is of forged steel and carries a ‘ D ’ stamped on the web of the crank The petrol version , whilst sharing exactly the same dimensions is marked P and it is made from cast iron and will not run for long in a diesel unit — as you have discovered Some military petrol engines however are fitted with the forged steel crank and these will fit and run in diesel units |
| 57 | If the taxpayer is providing the infrastructure for roads , which includes the track , maintainance and regulation ( = signalling ) , then it seems only reasonable that we should be providing exactly the same for rail — and allowing operators to run trains just as coach operators run buses . |
| 58 | No wear erm wear yeah wear a tight dress and once you get in there so many other people are wearing exactly the same thing |
| 59 | Erm and and yeah an and we were thinking oh yeah we look really good and we go along and , but there 's so many other girls wearing exactly the same thing that you just blend in , you do n't you know what I mean ? |
| 60 | So we did n't have to go all the way to Lime Street , Liverpool , Chapman , with his characteristic attention to such details , had arranged for the train to make a special stop at Edgehill Station , to give us a better chance of getting home the same night . |