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

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1 In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated .
2 Now Sir Colin has to spread the same degree of charm throughout BA 's expanding empire .
3 Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us .
4 The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents .
5 Utilisation can be twice as high and produces a double benefit : ( i ) lower costs per hour , and ( ii ) fewer aircraft needed to service the same sales volume .
6 Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times .
7 Why How did your brothers manage to do the same job as he did ?
8 I had suggested all cars would inevitably look the same , as rival designers struggled to meet the same constraints dictated by safety requirements and ever-better fuel economy .
9 This study aimed to use the same methods to examine anorectal function in 23 patients with complete supraconal spinal cord lesions and to determinate the relationship between the site of the lesion and the existence of inconsistent phenomena .
10 There is some repetition as the authors backtrack to report the same developments from different points of view and new characters are introduced ; the detailed mathematical discussions do become daunting for the non-specialist reader .
11 Whereas European countries tended to acquire public ownership of the assets of natural monopolies , the United States preferred to handle the same problems through public regulation of industries whose assets were left in private ownership .
12 The new instrument seeks to skin the same cat but in a slightly different way .
13 He was reminded of something he had read somewhere : that it was seldom wise to return to any former haunt hoping to recapture the same pleasure it had first given , because it was sure to be different and disappointing .
14 Other MIPS RISC-based systems in Olivetti 's stable such as the M700–10 look destined to go the same way .
15 B has to achieve the same end result by using materials available in the early nineteenth century , e.g.
16 When the slider potential moves towards R21 the output voltage rises to maintain the same state of equilibrium .
17 the design of policy in the presence of rival models purporting to represent the same economy ;
18 Sukarno hoped to employ the same techniques as had broken Dutch resistance in New Guinea .
19 The so-called modern values bring about a convergence of culture through improved mass communications , the elites of Third World countries come to share the same culture as those in the industrialised world .
20 The bachelor wanted to ask the same question , but he said nothing .
21 Adjectives seem to need the same rule , to produce stress patterns such
22 A similar conclusion was reached by Gruenberg ( 1977 ) from a population study in Sweden , although further analysis of the same population failed to reach the same conclusion ( Rorsman et al .
23 He had already become dependent on Richard Arkwright [ q.v. ] for funds ( a loan of £10,000 in 1788 ) but the prosperity of muslins now evaporated , while Oldknow failed to achieve the same mastery of technical perfection in fine-cotton spinning .
24 The village rector asked the mourners to try to show the same love that brought them to the service …
25 The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles .
26 The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles .
27 It can only be hoped that the newly aggressive financial players of the Thatcher era manage to avoid the same errors .
28 ‘ We have sites in France and the UK and now we have a strong presence in Germany — a cohesive team fighting to achieve the same objective . ’
29 ‘ America is so big that bands are n't surrounded by other bands trying to do the same thing .
30 I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream .
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