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

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1 A borough might not have covered the same area as a township , and a parish might have been something completely different .
2 A study on the conventions of medieval warfare , from the pen of a woman , would not have commanded the same confidence .
3 Certainly , an oil engine and clutch system would not have had the same degree of flexibility as a steam engine , even if a suitable engine had been available .
4 To have just lost and not been so dreadful might not have had the same impact .
5 Be careful about contemporary words that seem familiar but may not have had the same meaning or implication in the modern period .
6 This would not have had the same meaning as it has today for the term park originally meant land enclosed to keep beasts for hunting or ornamental purposes .
7 Without this " attraction " it was hardly to be expected that rural labour markets could clear themselves through falling wages , since they were already so close to the level of subsistence that a further lowering would have reduced the productivity of labour via its depressing effect on the calorific value of workers ' diets which would no longer have sustained the same work effort .
8 Their attitude was part of an exaggerated respect for the English class system , and they did not seem to realize that an open-minded person like Horsley could easily have had the same sort of meeting at , for example , a CND conference .
9 Therefore the woman , not having had the same training as a man can not possibly demand the same wage ; also not being physically as strong , she can not compete with him where heavy lifting is required .
10 Would the ballerinas named above have reached the same eminence without the personal attention of a choreographer of genius ?
11 But erm quite frankly I ca n't see myself ever getting given the same sort of circumstances .
12 You will still have turned the same amount as before , that is 180° .
13 Tom Cotter , the little fat station master who had gawked unashamedly at the beautiful girl on his platform , could still have had the same shirt on .
14 One of the most rewarding things about being a lawyer in local government [ and a striking contract with private practice ] is that you rarely get asked the same question twice and usually the problems require imaginative legal thinking .
15 If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark .
16 Although there was an express clause in the employment contract by which the employee was under a duty " to promote , extend and develop the interests of the company " the court would clearly have reached the same conclusion on the basis of the implied duty of fidelity .
17 A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning .
18 Local tradition may indicate where cottages stood until recently , but the fieldworker should be aware that much earlier structures may also have occupied the same sites .
19 But that 's been the pattern of our lives , we often get offered the same part and I can honestly say there 's been no professional jealousy or rivalry at all .
20 But why should n't staff put the same process into operation lower down the school ?
21 Just two days later , at a party attended by a particularly ‘ old ’ ( and tarty ) flame of his , the expression on my face as I watched the two of them exchange meaningful glances would surely have revealed the same disgust and disdain that Diana displays whenever she encounters one of her husband 's confidantes .
22 If Shostakovich was writing now , he would n't have had the same material .
23 I could n't have got the same effect if I 'd fictionalised them . ’
24 Some choreographers today have adopted the same habit .
25 ‘ . You 'd all at least have seen the same thing and not getting one person 's narrative of what happened across the school last week .
26 It was not difficult to detect that his government was anxious and , if this word could ever be used about the placid Sir Alec Douglas-Home , was passionately anxious to obtain an agreement , just as Harold Wilson previously had had the same anxiety .
27 ‘ Well , ’ said Sendei , ‘ it looked like just about everybody else had had the same idea .
28 Never having shown the same propensity as the French for violent revolution , the dispossessed have entered into a complex ritual of action within the processes of the criminal justice system , and in doing so have encouraged those tasked with their containment to consider them as being less than human and therefore needing further control and discipline .
29 Each entry was scrutinised over the following eight weeks both by the dampness group and a panel of academic experts — who unknowingly had chosen the same winners .
30 We replaced them by closed stoves or by central heating boilers , which were so much more efficient that they essentially have used the same amount of fuel and we have simply become more comfortable in the process .
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