Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have [vb pp] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That of course assumes that everything spent on transport in England is a national cost and that the policing of London is a national cost , but we say that once we settle down and allocate the nature of expenditure as between the two countries , disallowing the cost of running the southern region of the railways as a United Kingdom expense , it is perfectly clear , as the Scottish newspapers have often demonstrated under the heading ’ Scotching the Myth ’ — Scottish Television has demonstrated the same in a programme of the same name — that there is no question of Scotland being subsidised in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 3 | There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter . |
| 4 | The planners ' central analysis has remained the same throughout the controversy . |
| 5 | ( If overall expenditure had remained the same in real terms , a fall in pupil numbers of 17% would have led to a rise in unit costs of 20% ) ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.10 ) . |
| 6 | In successfully pressing for a referendum on the Common Market , he obliged Wilson to suspend the doctrine of collective Cabinet responsibility , an event without precedent since the National Government had done the same on the free-trade issue in the early thirties . |
| 7 | Notice here that although demand has risen from year 2 to year 3 , net investment has remained the same . |
| 8 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Newmarket man says : ‘ His father was a late developer and Bonny Scot has pro-gressed the same way . ’ |
| 11 | Her own mother had done the same . |
| 12 | The Roman Catholic wake has served the same purposes . |
| 13 | And I think the Catholic Church has stayed the same there ; it 's back in the 1950s whereas it 's collapsed healthily down here . |
| 14 | It seemed that Fen had made the same resolution . |