Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [that] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it .
2 Then , inconsistent test methods meant that the same cooker could be rated as 800W by one manufacturer , and 650W by another — little help when trying to follow instructions for heating convenience foods .
3 The Head Girl warned that the same fate would happen to me .
4 The Council 's decision to scrap the tradition in regard to the diaconate suggested that the same tradition in regard to the priesthood could equally well be abandoned if it was pastorally desirable .
5 The Hindus asserted that the same rhythm must of necessity be mirrored at all stages of creation and in all domains .
6 Augustine added that the same story is seldom repeated in precisely the same words by a single person .
7 As I recall , the French poets of the late 19th century said that the same motivation lay behind their startling verse : they wanted to epater la bourgeoisie .
8 The majority of the Court of Appeal concluded that the same principle should not apply in the case of such public authorities .
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