Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [det] of the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual deterrence occurs when someone commits a crime , is punished for it , and finds the punishment so unpleasant or frightening that the offence is never repeated for fear of more of the same or worse . |
| 2 | Whilst it does not have the theological aims of the NVALA , the NFoL/CARE or the OCU , it still appears to have developed in response or opposition to many of the same social trends highlighted by those other groups . |
| 3 | Yet this image , allowing for exaggeration , is not totally removed from the reality of prewar Japanese society , and the persistence of some of the same characteristics in the post-1945 period therefore means that such categorization still contains a measure of truth . |
| 4 | ‘ You do n't mind ? ’ she asked , thinking it more than good of him to use his morning squiring her around , without him letting himself in for an afternoon of more of the same ! |
| 5 | With the help of many of the same printing presses , ink suppliers and distributors , Harlequin Enterprises , a Canadian firm which dominates the world 's romantic-fiction market , is doing a roaring business by expanding into Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | The body of a cat when hunting takes on a quite different demeanour to that of the same pussy when out for an idle stroll or with some other intention in mind . |
| 7 | Erm my next prezzie is sort of more of the same actually . |
| 8 | It was being driven by a very po-faced Englishman with another of the same ilk beside him and the car was spotlessly clean . |
| 9 | Having liquidated one in four employees during the past few years and having promised to treat its workforce to more of the same during 1993 , IBM should have surprised no one by investing some of the money it has presumably saved in an organisation formed by the people who produced the most recent Terminator film . |
| 10 | Because the winning of seats under the STV depends more often than not on the transfer of votes from one candidate to another of the same patty , it is particularly important that they should campaign unanimously . |
| 11 | ‘ We said far too much yesterday and I see no reason for more of the same . |
| 12 | Anyone who watched the drubbing poor Neil Lyndon received for his attack on extreme feminism , No More Sex War , and has a taste for more of the same will relish Not Guilty : In Defence of the Modern Man ( Weidenfeld , February , £8.99 , 0 297 81216 5 ) , in which David Thomas reveals the fruits of his researches into how The Guys have been Really Hurting because of their treatment at the hands of women lately . |
| 13 | There is a reversion to a concept of Biblical antiquity , that of the conjugal debt ; and , most significantly , in continuing the metamorphosing of sexual and monetary transactions , the wife presents the reader at the end with more of the same in the Shipman 's Tale , nothing new or refreshing . |
| 14 | In the spring , this need of young animals for the company of those of the same age is very obvious . |
| 15 | To the people of Northern Ireland the Prime Minister 's ’ no change ’ comment is simply a promise of more of the same . |
| 16 | Braque was dissatisfied with traditional perspective for many of the same reasons as Picasso . |
| 17 | Despite its undoubted success , IDG has lost parts of its core home market for many of the same reasons it has succeeded abroad . |
| 18 | Thus , before medieval drama went into the streets as part of a religious festival , less developed kinds of dramatization of several of the same events — key moments in the Christian history of the world — had been performed in churches , and some of the very earliest of these — the Quem quaeritis ? episodes of the encounters after the resurrection — had been performed within religious services . |
| 19 | Repeated non-availability or failures to show up after agreeing to an engagement are likely to result in a discontinuation of offers of work , and in this sense casual working requires an acceptance of many of the same disciplines as apply to working in a regular fashion . |
| 20 | He made another foray to the bar and was back in quick time with another of the same . |