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

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1 The Stick has got the same range as the piano and I can jump four octaves with one hand .
2 It can be seen that the committee continues to recognise the difference between obtaining possession by a trick ( that is , ‘ by deception ’ in its new wide sense ) and obtaining ownership by false pretences ( again , ‘ by deception ’ ) but the committee intended , and it seems that Parliament has adopted the same approach in section 15 , that , for the purpose of finding the accused guilty , it would cease to matter whether the victim was deceived into transferring ownership or into handing over possession .
3 His eyes had turned the same colour and I caught a whiff of that strange perfume which sometimes emanated from him , sweet but sickly .
4 David had said the same sort of thing , thought Juliet , and a deep feeling of sadness washed over her .
5 The social groups C2DE still make up 57 per cent of the electorate ; if Labour had enjoyed the same dominance among these voters as do the Tories in social groups ABC1 , they would have swept to power with a big majority .
6 Edward had made the same objection .
7 He told us that " if only the car industry had achieved the same improvements in price performance since the war as the electronics industry , a 1980 Rolls Royce would only cost 2 pence . "
8 In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said .
9 For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) .
10 The Pilot Survey showed some monitoring , further standardisation of the equipment was essential , mainly though , I 'm going to make sure all schools have got the same pipes and connector and I 'm going to give them some solutions to test because there was a bit of variation between schools , and there will be variation geographically , so I want to be able to have a measure of any error that will be involved as well .
11 I have never known a situation where a doe has used the same breeding stop twice .
12 His friend , Helen Woodruff had admitted the same charge , and already been banned from keeping dogs for 7 years .
13 Two promoters had obtained the same A G ( all mutations are indicated for the upper strand ) substitution at position -65 , two promoters had obtained an A G substitution at -72 , three promoters had obtained double mutations : A G at -65 together with C T at -1 , A G at -65 with C T at +4 and A G at -65 together with A G at -33 .
14 Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 .
15 Many people confronted with a crash have done the same thing .
16 And the tame descendants have kept the same views on this matter .
17 Given the fundamental importance of demography for any assessment of a pre-industrial economy , it is not surprising that economic historians have pressed the surveys into service ( historians of medieval England have done the same sort of thing with Domesday Book ) as sources of demographic data .
18 By comparable mechanisms , an animal ( or human ) will find a task easier to learn if others of the same type have learned the same task before .
19 So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner .
20 At a time when English officialdom has been worrying about the fact that some among their top youngsters are playing more golf than is good for them , Stevely has had the same feelings where his own pupils are concerned .
21 The superiority of this latter group on a test task which involved choice between A and B could well depend on their having learned different labels ( and on the control group having learned the same label ) for these stimuli .
22 Ronni shook her head at Guido , remembering how Silvia had said the same thing to her .
23 Councillor Bellamy had asked the same question , Carolyn recalled .
24 Composers have followed the same pattern . )
25 He is such fun , the intelligent person 's humorous read à la David Lodge ( Penguin has used the same cover illustrator , Paul Cox ) .
26 Hawthorn and oak had colonised the same embankment .
27 Whatever the nature of their relationship , it was clear that husband and wife had shared the same flat .
28 Defries had had the same idea .
29 Twenty years earlier , R. A. Butler had shared the same fate , recalling the ‘ blood curdling demands ’ made annually at the Conservative Party Conference for the restoration of corporal punishment which had ‘ quite clouded ’ his time as Chairman of the Party .
30 Kate and Diane have booked the same venue with its easy access just minutes off the M5 motorway and superb views across the Somerset countryside .
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