Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity . |
| 2 | It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people . |
| 3 | More recent authority has come to the same conclusion : see Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent [ 1965 ] 1 QB 623 per Pearson LJ and Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 per Megaw LJ . |
| 4 | Two-syllable simple adjectives are stressed according to the same rule , giving : |
| 5 | Skinner ( 1948 ) states that " verbal behaviour is emitted behaviour which is reinforced by a listener and develops according to the same principles as other operant behaviour . |
| 6 | In both these cases the confusion arises because a term is considered to belong to the same category as the ones that are being demonstrated . |
| 7 | They do not need to belong to the same phase . |
| 8 | In addition he suggested that he could obtain further men from the SBS and the Middle East Commando , and that the Free French be permitted to expand to the same size as L Detachment . |
| 9 | We live in a ‘ market economy ’ and many one time ‘ command economies ’ are endeavouring to change to the same arrangements . |
| 10 | At Alfort , for instance , the professors were constrained to reply to the same charge as was levelled at Coleman — that of neglecting animals other than the horse . |
| 11 | Witnesses were examined according to the same procedure as at police court trials . |
| 12 | Crowds were composed of groups of family , friends , or work-mates tending to go to the same part of the ground and recognizing those around them . |
| 13 | He wanted his prose to be objective , scientific , devoid of personal presence , devoid of opinions ; so he decided that poetry ought to be written according to the same principles . |
| 14 | Nick and she , they were proportioned to each other , they seemed to belong to the same tribe . |
| 15 | If two initially rather different cues are made to adhere to the same name or to closely similar names , then rather than being stretched apart the two cues might be forced closer together . |
| 16 | Ben had been nine when he 'd gone to the same school , he reminded her . |
| 17 | But what was nice about our little group was that we could we normally changed over if we did n't want to stick to the same job all the time . |
| 18 | Four twos two fours which ever one 's easier it 's going to come to the same answer . |
| 19 | Then an appendix , a disc list , gives every known issue and reissue according to the same numbering , a sensible practice . |
| 20 | Developing and mounting were performed according to the same protocol as for the PAP procedure . |
| 21 | If this is the case , then means and ends amount to the same thing since the same moral demands apply to both in the quest for Truth . |
| 22 | This makes it possible to study subtle processes of coordination : for example , when words are repeated they are generally pronounced less clearly after the first time , but only if they are being used to refer to the same thing . |
| 23 | 4 Pulling his left fist back , the defender prepares to strike to the same target area with his right arm . |
| 24 | Speaker B keeps returning to the same point , his first statement , dealing with it in a variety of ways , and we get three different and slightly conflicting evaluations of his action in discussing sex openly with his pupils ( it 's daring , it 's unsystematic , it 's something anyway ) . |
| 25 | It seemed louder , more raucous than usual , and she sighed at the prospect of another evening spent listening to the same arguments and bitter reproaches . |
| 26 | And if if a certain family gets stuck in with another family and they 're both trouble causers and they both get moved to the same area it 's gon na cause trouble in that area so they ought to say , Right fifty there , fifty there , |
| 27 | But she could never hope to participate to the same degree in his excitement and his passion . |
| 28 | A counter-balance for Satan can not be found for Milton has gone too far in his wonderful description and characterisation so that even his portrayal of God can not even hope to rise to the same level . |
| 29 | But from what little I do know of it , my understanding is that it basically dramatises the same power relationships , and so seems to appeal to the same inequalities . |
| 30 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |