Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're always afraid that somebody buys the same presents . |
| 2 | The cost of educating our children is below the national recoupment figure , and that I think is good , right and proper and it reflects the many years of excellent Conservative administration that Oxfordshire has enjoyed . |
| 3 | But they mean something entirely different but they say the same words . |
| 4 | By far the most common escape mechanism for organisms ranging from bacteria to human beings is ‘ habituation ’ , a kind of behavioural boredom by which an animal becomes less responsive as it encounters the same stimulus repeatedly . |
| 5 | But Copernican thinking has already led astray many astronomers who should have known better , and we 'd best be careful when they use the same logic to try to convince us that we and our planet are nothing special . |
| 6 | The tiger that was nearest to him , and which he could see most easily , seemed so bored that he did the same thing day after day , hour after hour . |
| 7 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 8 | In a cinema , for example , although you would no doubt forgive me if I shouted ‘ Move ! ’ at you if I had seen that a heavy chandelier was falling on to your head , you might not be so tolerant if I used the same formulation , requesting the same action , if you were simply obscuring my view of the screen . |
| 9 | I was worried that she 'd go off with someone else because she was so pretty and she thought the same about me because I was away from home so much . |
| 10 | This becomes very obvious when you see the many remains on the moor dating from pre-history to more modern times . |
| 11 | There was some light left as they motored the few miles to The Towers . |
| 12 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 13 | They are both friendly and helpful and take an interest in their guests itineraries making sure that everyone makes the most of their stay . |
| 14 | He liked her very much , and I was sure that she felt the same about him . |
| 15 | In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed . |
| 16 | The closure notice was peremptory and we made the most of the fact that a poor , struggling little community service radio station , without benefit of commercial revenue , serving the southern and central parts of the province from gratis studios and operated by a completely voluntary staff , was being victimized by a powerful political federal body without regard to the expressed wishes of the people . |
| 17 | Two quantities can only be equal if they contain the same powers of space , time and mass . |
| 18 | He 's also applying double standards — allowing himself to eat and drink to his heart 's content but disapproving when you do the same . |
| 19 | Because it 's , it 's a service for everyone , as long as everybody gets the same |
| 20 | And these are all based on the allowances and it does n't matter if those are allowances are correct as long as we use the same incorrect allowances all the way through . |
| 21 | All the Rover type diffs will interchange as long as you use the same ratio front and rear , but Range Rover-front diffs need the flat base casting type to take the steering damper — these are also stronger diffs . |
| 22 | You can add or subtract any amount from one side of an equation as long as you do the same thing to the other . |
| 23 | Thus the wing of a bat and the paddle of a porpoise are homologous because they show the same underlying pattern of bones typical of a mammalian forelimb . |
| 24 | And just to remind you what I was saying , if you 've just switched on , what I was just confirming with Colin er earlier , is that erm it 's slightly different in this competition to what we 've been accustomed to in the football league er this and last season , in as far as it 's not goals scored that 's important when you have the same number of points , it is goal difference . |
| 25 | There is a tacit acceptance that , because men are generally more successful in material terms than women , women could become more successful if they made the same educational choices as men . |
| 26 | ‘ Like any hobby or job , it 's vital that we speak the same language , understand the same flying terms . |
| 27 | Other than their having the same employer , what does it mean to say that they are each members of the same community ? |
| 28 | In studying these laws the reader should bear in mind our philosophy that nondivergent processes are equivalent if they have the same communications , minimal acceptances and terminations , and if their possible behaviours after each communication are equivalent . |
| 29 | The difference between these two sites is surprising since they contain the same tetranucleotide sequence ( CGCA/TGCG ) and may suggest that longer range structural factors play a role in the dissociation rate . |
| 30 | The way we work is similar and it could have been nasty when we wanted the same part . |