Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Burke leaves a remarkable house which deserves to be looked after with the same care that she has lavished on it for almost 20 years . |
| 2 | With new technology making our lives easier by the day , it 's good to know that the environment is being looked after at the same time . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , he decided to side with Detroit on the day , so that he might be as comfortably partisan as usual , but he did so among a group of Pittsburgh supporters , whom he referred to throughout the same as Pitts-buggers , which did nothing to improve inter-City relations . |
| 4 | This is just the same for systems like the Polynesian one , discussed by Engels , where large numbers of people can referred to by the same term as one 's father . |
| 5 | Unlike most doctors , he saw it , not as the final enemy , but as a fascinating enigma , each cadaver , which he would gaze at with the same intent look as he must once have fixed on his living patients , a new piece of evidence which might , if rightly interpreted , bring him closer to its central mystery . |
| 6 | Because these appear at about the same level in adjacent fibrils they give to the whole fibre its characteristic cross-striated appearance . |
| 7 | Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry . |
| 8 | More surprisingly , sometimes a trough develops at about the same position , 15 degrees upstream of the mountains : and this pattern also persists for many days or weeks . |
| 9 | The horizon on this Earth-sized world lies at about the same distance as on the Earth . |
| 10 | We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there . |
| 11 | ‘ I feel that any threatened site , be it on land or not , should be looked at in the same way : that is , will excavating this site advance our knowledge of history in a significant way ? |
| 12 | Simultaneously with clinical observations such as these , academic psychologists were also beginning to incorporate a similar idea into their models of normal cognitive functioning and most contemporary theories of human information processing contain the notion of a mechanism that screens and selects the products of consciousness ; necessarily so , since organised thought would be impossible without some device that allows the mind to choose from among the many stimuli — both internal and external — with which it is constantly bombarded . |
| 13 | Ramcom 's existing cards can already be read by radio thanks to a built-in transceiver , but the new In-Charge cards can also be written to in the same way . |
| 14 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 15 | Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world . |
| 16 | And in the same square stood the parish church of Santa Croce , built at about the same time as the castle . |
| 17 | And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 18 | But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’ |
| 19 | Reliability , simplicity , small size and light weight are the things to look for in the many models on the market today . |
| 20 | It needs to be something that is talked about in the same way that racism and sexism are talked about . |
| 21 | The man paid the gaveller about a shilling a day : if she had a young child to look after at the same time she would have to manage as best she could . |
| 22 | Lyric poetry is not subjective in the ordinary sense ; and in its freedom from subjectivity it should be thought of in the same terms as music . |
| 23 | Well let's erm , they , they are going to on the same site . |
| 24 | the most expedient course to consult the architect who had already been employed to prepare plans for the particular office now to be built , and who from his official position in connexion with the Board of Works might be resorted to with the least invidiousness to the professional public . |
| 25 | It may be a coincidence that this affair , the consecration of the church at Assandun , and the introduction of monks at Bury all happened at about the same time . |
| 26 | But clear declines in infant mortality in Britain and in Belgium only become apparent some time after the beginning of the fertility decline , and in France mortality and fertility declines begin at about the same time . |
| 27 | In 1985 , capital expenditure for air pollution control was estimated to have cost industry $10.5 billion , with operation and maintenance costs at about the same level . |
| 28 | But nearly all its distinctive features may be exhibited in a place where population and wealth are both growing , provided they are growing at about the same rate , and there is no scarcity of land : and provided also the methods of production and the conditions of trade change but little ; and above all , where the character of man himself is a constant quantity . |
| 29 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 30 | My secretary , Angela Foley , and Clifford Bradley , the Higher Scientific Officer in the biology department , arrived at about the same time . " |