Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [art] same [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a road sweeper kills the king he ca n't expect to get the same gratuity as a general . |
| 2 | Cynthia Cockburn calls this " studied hypocrisy " , arguing that as things stood no woman could expect to earn the same wage as a man , because of the Factory Acts among other things , and links it with the undoubtedly fiercely held view among many compositors that women really had no right to " leave the home " anyway . |
| 3 | You might like to stay the same weight but change your shape . |
| 4 | As for advising someone else who might want to do the same thing as myself , I do n't know what to say . |
| 5 | Otherwise he might have suffered the same fate as Sheila Brayford . |
| 6 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 7 | You will still have turned the same amount as before , that is 180° . |
| 8 | Where which probably the parents when I was doing midwifery would have said the same thing but there was nothing they could do about it . |
| 9 | ‘ . 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ In a subsequent editorial the newspaper fiercely attacked the CPS decision … and questioned whether the CPS would have made the same decision if the woman had been a black girl caught in exactly the same way on Broadwater Farm . |
| 12 | She realized that she might have made the same mistake as Joan Durbeyfield . |
| 13 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 14 | In theory an excise on home production of tobacco could have produced the same revenue as a tax on imports but in practice it took a strong and efficient government to levy an excise , while almost any government could find private businessmen who would pay a lump sum of cash in return for the right to collect the official rates of customs duties at a port . |
| 15 | He should have had the same chance as them , Church or no Church . ’ |
| 16 | All the same , I doubt very much that when I was in a comparable situation I would have had the same faith and determination that Tom did . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Be careful about contemporary words that seem familiar but may not have had the same meaning or implication in the modern period . |
| 19 | I could n't have got the same effect if I 'd fictionalised them . ’ |
| 20 | Lord Taylor , the Lord Chief Justice , sitting with Mr Justice Judge and Mr Justice Hidden , said they could not be sure that the original trial jury would have reached the same verdict if it had heard evidence which had since come to light . |
| 21 | I fear it may have gone the same way as Honest John 's other great idea , the hard ecu . |
| 22 | He would have posed the same question if he had been sitting in her position . |
| 23 | If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark . |
| 24 | Any traveller would have taken the same route as I did . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all . |
| 26 | ‘ We would have taken the same action and taken a prosecution if it had been any other film which had been shown without the consent of the licence-holder . ’ |
| 27 | A borough might not have covered the same area as a township , and a parish might have been something completely different . |
| 28 | The newsreader would have achieved the same effect if he had suddenly broke into song . |
| 29 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 30 | He would have to make the same improvement as his stable-companion Forest Sun did from Chepstow to Ascot to be given a sporting chance here . |