Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the same [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Jean Goodwin presented a £300 cheque to Dr. Bathall for Cardiac Support Group , and Heather Trimming presented a cheque for the same amount to Mrs. Todd for the Alton branch of Sight Concern Hampshire .
2 Orwell 's point can be extended , since these writers recognized not only the dissolution of public or social values but also the bankruptcy of private ones : it ought to be remembered that the notion of " personality " reached its apogee in Oscar Wilde during the same period of scientific and social optimism .
3 Planting in 1988 came within 15 per cent of the national target , but has fallen now to one-third of that level for the same cost to the taxpayer as in 1988 .
4 The Commission has been in existence for the same length of time as the Fair Employment Agency , since 1976 .
5 It is clear that we can hold partially or severely differing opinions about the same individual in different roles .
6 For example , the last segment in French piques and Paques differ in form but function as the same phoneme in the language .
7 The solution may be stable on either the success or the failure surfaces for the same value of the logical rigour factor .
8 Corresponding times for the same band in second take only 0.5secs or so more , and even by using third they are barely lengthened by 1sec .
9 Organisers of Wirral 's Initiative for Needy Children ( Winch ) are also lining up a celebrity spot-kick contest for the same day at Prenton Park .
10 Then I shall batter her with the club for the same amount of time .
11 Relationships between the same document in different media may require some thought .
12 The pupil can : 2a associate appropriate units with the quantity to be measured ; 2b relate units for the same measure to each other ; 2c relate a given unit to an everyday object with a sensible numerical value .
13 ‘ But clearly , although they are not producing computers for the same sector of the market place , they are both manufacturing plants . ’
14 MAY I draw attention to two areas of concern — the silent , unobtrusive increasing of the school leaving age for some young people and the penny pinching savings through the same process with the changing of the school leaving date .
15 There are not many precedents for the same Secretary of State and the same Permanent Secretary serving together for the best part of six years .
16 Between January and February 1991 , 38,200 tourists visited the country — just 20% of the figure for the same period in 1991 .
17 And tonight , three hours south in San Jos de Penuelas , the seasonal labourers who are talking by candlelight around a table seem to be taking the first steps towards the same kind of self-determination .
18 6. the Guardian and classify voters as ‘ persistent ’ readers if they were ‘ regular ’ readers of the same paper-type in both the Mid-Term and Pre-Campaign Waves , that is , if they regularly read the same paper-type throughout the year preceding the election .
19 Other essays are damaged by what appears to be an opposite problem , but is actually a result of the same lack of structure : they read as if they are trying to solve two or more problems at once .
20 Prior to this he had painted The Death of Nelson ( Colour Plate XIX ) , again on a big format and based on a reproduction of the central group in Daniel Maclise 's mural of the same subject for the House of Lords .
21 Griffith then took ordinary cold rods of the same glass about a millimetre thick and broke them in tension , finding that they had a tensile strength of about 25,000 p.s.i .
22 Thanks to improved fragrance technology , perfumers are now able to offer us subtly differing strengths of the same scent for different moments during the day : eau de parfum ( freshest of all ) eau de toilette , parfum de toilette , esprit de parfum , parfum — or even , for some famous names , parfum extra , ideal for knocking 'em dead at several paces .
23 There are some glimpses of the same behaviour in MacMillan 's Mayerling , although the manners and behaviour have deteriorated .
24 Stratigraphical and sedimentological data provided by the Purse Caundle Borehole include a section through the depocentre of the Inferior Oolite basin in northern Dorset , where a thick muddy peloidal limestone sequence ( formerly regarded as oolitic ) contrasts with thin ferruginous limestones of the same age on the Dorset coast .
25 We might also add that critics whose judgement is no less to be respected than Olivier Opdebeeck 's are able to discern a contrasting ‘ personality ’ in different performances of the same piece by different English choirs , even when a high percentage of the singers is the same in each case .
26 This basic fact should be borne in mind when reading ideologically biased accounts of the benefits following upon Russian occupation for , in the words of the same writer on the hunting peoples , ‘ In every well-documented instance , cases of hardship may be traced to the intervention of modern intruders . ’
27 According to the classical view , poetic style is purely decorative , playing no part in communication other than to please the hearer 's aesthetic sense.9 However , this view implies that figurative utterances may be paraphrased without loss of meaning , and as , for example , Coleridge ( 1906 : 263 ) points out , once it is recognised that " language is framed to convey not the object alone , but likewise the character , mood and intentions of the person representing it " , then it should not be surprising that the test of a " blameless style " is its " untranslatableness in words of the same language without injury to the meaning " .
28 For example , the investment management section of a financial organisation is advising customers to buy shares in a company which is thought generally to have good prospects ; unknown to that section , the company has consulted the corporate finance department of the same organisation about how to deal with serious losses it has suffered but which are not yet publicly known .
29 The current crop of presenters lined up on the steps of the same church outside Broadcasting House where the original team — Terry Wogan , Bob Holness , Jimmy Young and all — had posed exactly a quarter of a century before .
30 Perpendicular without intermission , taking steps of the same length at the same intervals , their arms hanging useless and helpless they were no better than trussed chickens but for their faces which , even in repose , suggested movement no less than a bird 's wings … .
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