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

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1 Security 's being tightened up around the breeding pens … but staff are committed to maintaining the same easy access to the birds for visitors to the trust .
2 The pair became good friends and shared the same haughty view of their futures .
3 Raybestos and the IDA shared the same legal representation at the hearing .
4 Kirsten proved a fine role model for the impressionable Rhodes throughout the tour , and while on the surface the pair could n't be more contrasting in appearance or temperament , there is no doubting that they shared the same total commitment to their game and country .
5 The Scholtz Twins , a brother and sister musical act , was also on the bill and Rose and Bernie shared the same theatrical lodgings with Noreen and Maria at the Benson Theatre Home from Home off Vine Street .
6 The boredom was broken only by bayoneting rats , bailing more water out of the trench or having to listen to Tommy repeat the same old melodies on a now rusty mouth-organ .
7 Afterwards he dipped his own thumb into the bowl and made the same yellow mark on Chola 's forehead .
8 There are many laboratory techniques for measuring time in speech , and measurement of the time intervals between stressed syllables in connected English speech has not shown the expected regularity ; moreover , using the same measuring techniques on different languages , it has not been possible to show a real difference between ‘ stress-timed ’ and ‘ syllable-timed ’ languages .
9 Here are two , more difficult figures drawn using the same basic methods of construction .
10 It might sound dull to advise using the same pale colour for walls , floors and larger pieces of furniture but this treatment will make the most confined area seem lighter and airier and will make bulky objects like sofas , armchairs and beds recede into the background .
11 By using the same statistical techniques on each data set within a consistent and coherent methodological framework it will add to the understanding of crime and its consequences .
12 Yet the argument against Ashdown 's triumphalism has to stop short of encouraging the same fatal hubris among Labour politicians .
13 The full glory of Chuck Prophet 's twisted Telecastering is definitely best savoured live , but the latest release from Green On Red sees the errant duo of Prophet and Dan Stuart re-writing the same old songs to the same good effect .
14 This remained only a vague idea until he read the same Soviet paper from the 1970s as Chatterjee had seen and which dealt with the abundance of helium-3 and helium-4 in minerals .
15 So if , at some stages of a life , the individual is poorer than at others , this may not matter because everybody will experience the same relative shifts in affluence as they move through stages of life .
16 Children do not make the same rigid distinction between humans and animals that adults learn to make .
17 Both have developed the same unusual method of trapping prey — they dig small pitfall traps for it .
18 I got the same overpowering sense of mortality when I went to my old school reunion last week .
19 No clear distinction was made between the temporal and spiritual privileges of the Church ; they all stood on the same level , enforced by the same sanctions , guaranteed by the same authority , reflecting the same divine ordering of the world .
20 Suddenly , Fabia experienced the same familiar churning of inner agitation which appeared every time that interview grew imminent .
21 Perhaps her husband was not such a shit after all , Blanche thought , just a human being who experienced the same tangled skein of feelings as held her then .
22 In his turn , Tran Van Hieu knelt to perform the same silent acts of obeisance as the older man , but after prostrating himself for the third time , he remained on his knees and to his children 's surprise began to pray aloud .
23 After all , you make the same unrealistic demands on me sometimes , and I 'm not perfect either — only I 've never confronted you with the unreasonableness of it all . ’
24 The fact that three of these families had been moderately wealthy in Palestine and had managed to acquire the same social status in their exile — that they behaved and looked like millions of middle-class couples in Europe , or indeed in Israel — only compounded my error .
25 Two years later Julian Barnes , in Flaubert 's Parrot ( 1984 ) , entertained the same subversive point in a novel of impish erudition : the past , he suggests in his opening chapter , is rather like a greasy piglet , and anyone who tries to seize it is bound to look ridiculous .
26 This was considered revolutionary at the time it was written ( 1955 ) , but case study after case study elsewhere in the country now suggest the same basic pattern of large estates .
27 ‘ But I think the average employee in the public sector , who has a job , knows perfectly well that , in the public services nowadays , you have to accept the same sensible level of settlements that people do outside , where things are going hard .
28 The fact that a growing proportion of diplomats were now laymen whose fluency in Latin was often limited helped to accelerate this process , as did the fact that different nations pronounced the same Latin words in markedly different ways ; but as the language of treaties , especially those which involved a large number of states or in which the German states were concerned , Latin survived longer than as the language of negotiation .
29 Today 's worship contains the same basic ingredients in most Nonconformist churches , although there are usually some modifications to the accepted pattern .
30 Thus the 1927 study by Wentworth & Apfel 237 , and the 1931 study by Gross & Woodford 86 , both of which listed the journals most frequently used by American geologists , contain relatively small numbers of journals which still occupy the same high standing in the profession today .
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