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

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1 One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date .
2 Japanese plans to build an international airport on the Shiraho reef have been abandoned — in favour of building the same airport on the next reef along .
3 He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland .
4 Anyway , what about Sam , who takes the Ring but hands it back with only momentary delay , Pippin and Merry , who show no desire for it at all , Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli , who display the same indifference without the excuse of ignorance , and Boromir 's brother Faramir , who realises the Ring is in his power but refuses to take it , with no more sign of mental turmoil than a ‘ strange smile ’ and a glint in the eye ?
5 His later artistic inventions display the same fascination with the possibilities of getting inside the skin of another era .
6 From Los Angeles came a report of a film theatre that shared the same building with an undertaker and where the hall itself was squalid and narrow with grease spots on the wall where ‘ delighted spectators have leaned their enraptured heads ’ .
7 Classes did not exist since all members of society shared the same relationship to the means of production .
8 He and Richard clearly shared the same view of an overlord 's feudal rights .
9 He reached the milestone in just under three years — but his 109 matches were five more than it took Lewis Jones , of Leeds , to hit the same target in the 1950s .
10 ‘ Peake plays the same way before a 5,000 crowd or a 50,000 crowd .
11 Meanwhile the left hand plays the same rhythms in the opposite order .
12 The shell plays the same role for a snail as the stone house does for a caddis larva .
13 Rye grass is coarse and flat-leaved , and fulfils the same function in a sward as petrol-like grain spirit in cheap Scotch whisky .
14 ( 3 ) Return to the starting position and repeat the same movement on the opposite side .
15 Chola reached up to the arch above the doorway add seven times made the same imprint with the pad of her thumb on to seven discs of semi-dried cow-dung .
16 So , for example , in the England of the seventeenth century , Anglicans , Puritans , Presbyterians and others all made the same appeal to the Bible ; but their different convictions about what the Bible was chiefly saying often seemed more prominent than their shared allegiance to it .
17 A pair of ‘ Boulle ’ marquetry meubles à hauteur d'appui of around 1780 attributed to Etienne Levasseur of Phillip-Claude Montigny made the same amount against an estimate of $250,000–350,000 .
18 That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on .
19 I made the same point in the previous chapter but it may help if I give a concrete example .
20 Learners bring the same expectations to the experience of viewing video in the classroom and we can encourage this positive attitude by using video in a flexible way .
21 The positioning is made easier by imagining your field to be the normal landing area on your home site and by using the same angle for the positioning .
22 If this were so , then any inclination we may have to think that the heat we attribute to external objects and the bodily sensation of being hot must be alike derives from our using the same word for a quality of external objects and for a sensation , and not vice versa .
23 It would almost certainly have been given the same support by the full House had it not been attached to a Bill to reform obscenity law , with which it had no clear or logical connection .
24 That is , in an effort to ensure that any variations in replies respondents provide are not artifacts of variations in the way in which the questions were asked , each respondent should be given the same questions in the same serial order .
25 So why was n't Davies , who worked miracles with such meagre resources at Nottingham ( as has become more and more apparent this season ) and had a near unblemished record as England ‘ B ’ coach , given the same opportunity at the top level that Best has now been given ?
26 I in the past th Granville mentioned these letters that used to work their way down from on high which might have just been a , a bit of a twinkle in somebody 's eye with no money at all to spend on physical work but even so it was given the same status within the R C E's organization of five or ten years ago a a as an investment item was , it was almost authorized .
27 Mr McNeil said the region had tried but failed to persuade the CRE to conduct the same inquiry on a nationwide basis , and regretted its decision to proceed .
28 The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously .
29 She pushed it back , and wiped the same hand on the Beatrix Potter apron Harriet had made her for her birthday .
30 In our example , estimating the average height of adult males in the British population , would require a sampling fraction of about 1/4,000 , whereas to estimate the same parameter in a population of 200 , a sampling fraction of ¼ , or a sample size of 50 , would be necessary .
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