Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 4 Pulling his left fist back , the defender prepares to strike to the same target area with his right arm .
2 Still the stitch continued to drop in the same area .
3 Nocturnal animals have to cope with the same difficulty , and many creatures have developed ways of gathering the maximum amount of light .
4 As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes .
5 But it is far from certain that all the fish in every corporate shoal want to swim in the same direction .
6 Why so many of the other directors chose to sell at the same time is not known to me .
7 Nolan J said that the committee had to consist of the same people throughout .
8 The difficulty appears to me to be that there are too many people in the business seeking to compete in the same areas of demand , without any very great clarity about the sources of their own competitive advantages .
9 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 .
10 Auxiliary need tends to occur in the same syntactic environments as at all , ever and any , which are typically found in so-called non-assertive sentences .
11 Many insects respond to sound in the same way .
12 As I say , W. wished to continue with the same régime .
13 Familiarity bred business so it seemed , as established dealers with a limited clientele continued to deal with the same few people day after day , generating sometimes fantastic commissions for themselves , as well as token fines for the overtrading habits that ironically were tacitly encouraged .
14 Whoever threw that orange and that 50p deserve to die in the same M3 pile-up as Johnny Rogan : they would n't be missed .
15 Perhaps because horses are relatively large , and therefore hard to ignore , people tend to behave in the same way in the presence of a horse .
16 Her father has to sleep in the same room since he has to attend to her during the night when she may need a bed pan up to four times .
17 Should two adjacent needles try to tuck at the same time , there is nothing between these two needles to actually hold the loops on to the individual needles , so the loops become just one loop , which often falls off both needles .
18 When two bodies attempt to exist within the same sub-space their functional association needs to be checked .
19 Er I , I suppose if we 're going back something like forty , fifty years where people tended to live in the same area most of their lives , and their families in the area , people did n't move very far , they were probably born in an area , went to work in the area and died in the area .
20 Stack claim that the gun is balanced for colour as well as brightness of the image but all the games seemed to play with the same degree of accuracy even with a black&white image .
21 The walls of the craft began to buckle under the same kind of sideways force that was pressing in on her body .
22 ( His view of sex seems to suffer from the same ‘ Pharisaical ’ , constraints that ben Eliezer fought against , when he condemns ‘ Celebration ’ as ‘ a failure of tone , ’ ‘ portentous … imagery and the reality of the blow-job . ’
23 And then there 're the classic multi-user applications , like sales order processing , where different users have to work on the same file at the same time .
24 To avoid the chaos that would arise if , for example , several users wanted to print at the same time , the resources of a network may be controlled by ‘ servers ’ .
25 He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught .
26 He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught .
27 But the overlap in dates — Tolkien 's book began to appear in the same year as Lucky Jim — is fortuitous , not significant , and the overlap in time was not a collision of rival forces , rather the side-by-side running of parallel tracks .
28 The three men start to speak at the same time .
29 Three- and four-year-olds appear to act on the same assumption .
30 Being situated in Farmoor the village is very sought after and residents seem to move within the same village as it is so popular .
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