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

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1 Although the materials have been changing the industry has stayed in the same places .
2 It is difficult to quantify buying patterns , but I can say that American buying has dipped in the same way that European and non-European buying has dipped .
3 It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people .
4 By contrast , palaeontology had increased over the same periods , from 14 to 25 , not quite doubling .
5 In their different ways both Tom and Emilia had alluded to the same experience ; and before that experience she was utterly virgin .
6 I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind .
7 The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year .
8 They may , therefore , form in valleys and basins , especially in areas of calcareous rocks , and theoretically should be nearer the margins of the basins as they crystallise earlier than gypsum before the lakes have shrunk to the same degree .
9 And although the dominant enterprises in this sense have undoubtedly grown considerably in size , by any measure , over the post-war years it is not obvious that the operating units have grown in the same way .
10 Nocturnal animals have to cope with the same difficulty , and many creatures have developed ways of gathering the maximum amount of light .
11 But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen .
12 This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion .
13 Nolan J said that the committee had to consist of the same people throughout .
14 His home had burned with the same anger that the men responsible had felt , the anger which Carrefour had striven to purge himself of .
15 Peter and Carol had lived in the same row of houses for 16 years .
16 Both companies have arrived at the same answer .
17 Nearly all of the changes made by the Conservatives during the 1980s with respect to wages , benefits , taxation and the treatment of wealth have worked in the same direction .
18 There half an inch of rain has fallen in the same period .
19 The number claiming SB has risen over the same period from three million to just under five million ( figures from CPAG ) .
20 I mean frankly David , if you look at the number of games we 've had so far this season , it would be totally impractical for both teams to have played on the same pitch .
21 But so is the fact that one or both families have lived in the same area for four generations .
22 South Africa have named for the same job , not a professional journalist , but Dr. Nick Labuschagne , a man who has just been ousted as President of the Natal Rugby Union .
23 More recent authority has come to the same conclusion : see Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent [ 1965 ] 1 QB 623 per Pearson LJ and Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 per Megaw LJ .
24 In linking the resourcing of the school library to specific curriculum developments , and in making grants only to those schools whose plans comply with specified criteria , the local authority has acted in the same way as such central government agencies as the Department of Education and Science ( DES ) and the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) .
25 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 .
26 Twelve years ago , he said , President Ronald Reagan had stood at the same podium and said if the national debt were stacked in $1,000 bills , ‘ the stack would reach 67 miles into space .
27 For the past year or so , all hon. Members except my hon. Friends on the Front Bench have sung from the same hymn book about decommissioning .
28 While male activity rates have fallen steadily from 58.1 per cent in 1970 to 55.6 per cent in 1986 , female activity rates have risen over the same period from 26.6 per cent to 32.5 per cent .
29 The only year where they coincide is nineteen twenty , the great erm influenza epidemic actually killed more people than the first world war , and er as you 'll see , despite increasing trends in health care which have reduced the overall rate , the difference in death rate between males and females has remained in the same or , if anything , widened slightly in recent years .
30 Thus Chambers explains the similarities between Old and New World monkeys as due to life having advanced to the same level of organization from quite independent origins of life in the two hemispheres ( Hodge , 1972 ) .
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