Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 If your book is a success , you will want to write others with the same setting .
2 Semple and Logan ( Un ) failed to attract transfers on the same scale as Smyth and Dunlop ( DUP ) .
3 It is common for pupils to grow in height as much as an inch and a half ; they appear to lose weight at the same time .
4 The chirrups of the crickets are calling songs , designed to attract females of the same species as the calling male .
5 They have an impulse for nest building and all members of a particular species are programmed to build nests in the same way .
6 Tom Jones and Duff argued for resignation , and Lady Astor helped to sway Dawson to the same line , which was duly reflected in The Times leader of Monday morning .
7 Another great naturalist , Thoreau , has focussed attention at the same scale : ‘ Nature will bear the closest inspection .
8 Data from a large sample will show the earliest age at which a child would be expected to gain control of a particular aspect of language , and the age by which 90 per cent or 95 per cent of non-handicapped children might be expected to show evidence of the same ability .
9 But this was tempered by the disclosure that 35 per cent of firms expect to cut jobs over the same period .
10 The journalist with whom I 'd joined TWW on the same week from sister papers in Cardiff had wickedly gone into another room to make the mischievous call .
11 Evidence of my identity — why I , presumably an Englishman , since my relative is , should independently choose to visit Vienna at the same time — a time , incidentally , when most people with any sense are travelling in precisely the opposite direction …
12 Sometimes it can be shown that the tissue not only looks homogeneous , but actually is so , because , if the tissue is cut in half , each half will regulate to give rise to the same pattern as would otherwise have been produced by the whole .
13 First , as they add new words to their repertoires , they stop over-extending words from the same domain already in their vocabulary ( Clark 1973a ; Barrett , 1978 ) .
14 Archives and museums keep objects that hold information and they store information about the entities ( i.e. objects ) they hold , but whether they can be said to hold knowledge in the same way libraries do is debatable .
15 Terriers sometimes suffer from this same problem when they are used to evict foxes from the same sort of terrain .
16 Moreover , the slight shifts in core levels , called chemical shifts , can be used to differentiate atoms of the same element in different environments , either within one molecule or in a mixed sample .
17 I prefer to avoid mixing varieties in the same group and to plant lower growing Felicia pappei with them , especially the pink forms .
18 In Fig. 2.5 a widely spaced pair of radio-telescopes are shown receiving signals from the same source .
19 Apart from LCpl Smith , and my driver ( I have my own Land-Rover ) , the Adjutant is really the one I work most closely with ; we always seem to take part in the same parades , but we usually get back to barracks first , leaving the officers and men on guard .
20 One may look not only at the rest of the section in which the word appears but at the statute as a whole , and even at earlier legislation dealing with the same subject-matter — for it is assumed that when Parliament passed an Act , it probably had the earlier legislation in mind , and probably intended to use words with the same meaning as before .
21 Now that some manufacturers , including Citroen and Vauxhall , are beginning to list diesels at the same price as petrol versions , the sums may swing even further in the diesel 's favour .
22 A new defence doctrine began to take shape at the same time : it was intended to be non-offensive in character and to give other states no reason to fear for their security , notwithstanding the immense size of Soviet armed forces and the perceptions of those forces that were entertained particularly in Europe .
23 The company was not bound to make agreements in the same form or to require any payment .
24 However , he too began to show symptoms of the same terrible disease , which was incurable in those days .
25 When a swarm of bees leave to found a new colony , they tend to build combs with the same orientation , say east-west , as the combs in their parent hive .
26 Finally , the abandonment of desert in favour of individual diagnosis and treatment justified treating people with the same offence and record entirely differently , leaving it wide open to bias — especially in terms of social class .
27 A tract entitled The Manner of Passing Bills in Parliament , published in 1685 , may have formed part of the same work .
28 At that time hardly anyone but Winters would have named Williams in the same breath as Eliot , and it is characteristic of Winters 's perversity ( or his independence ) that thirty years later , when it had become usual to set Williams up against Eliot , Winters 's opinion of Williams had long been much less favourable .
29 Continue fitting lengths in the same way
30 In short , we may recognise three sources for the similarities in bylaws of common field farming in the East Midlands : first , a pattern of intermingled parcels of land involving all classes of tenants and lords ; second , some commonly accepted principles governing social life , which may fairly be regarded as the necessary outcome of the first proposition ; third , a similar physical environment which influenced the choice of farming objectives ; and last , similar economic pressures arising from the basic human need for food , and developing along similar lines , as the market in agricultural produce expanded and communities were driven to pursue change in the same general direction .
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