Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Stick has got the same range as the piano and I can jump four octaves with one hand .
2 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 .
3 This study aimed to use the same methods to examine anorectal function in 23 patients with complete supraconal spinal cord lesions and to determinate the relationship between the site of the lesion and the existence of inconsistent phenomena .
4 The new instrument seeks to skin the same cat but in a slightly different way .
5 The social groups C2DE still make up 57 per cent of the electorate ; if Labour had enjoyed the same dominance among these voters as do the Tories in social groups ABC1 , they would have swept to power with a big majority .
6 He told us that " if only the car industry had achieved the same improvements in price performance since the war as the electronics industry , a 1980 Rolls Royce would only cost 2 pence . "
7 In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said .
8 He was reminded of something he had read somewhere : that it was seldom wise to return to any former haunt hoping to recapture the same pleasure it had first given , because it was sure to be different and disappointing .
9 Other MIPS RISC-based systems in Olivetti 's stable such as the M700–10 look destined to go the same way .
10 I have never known a situation where a doe has used the same breeding stop twice .
11 When the slider potential moves towards R21 the output voltage rises to maintain the same state of equilibrium .
12 Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 .
13 Many people confronted with a crash have done the same thing .
14 The bachelor wanted to ask the same question , but he said nothing .
15 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 .
16 A similar conclusion was reached by Gruenberg ( 1977 ) from a population study in Sweden , although further analysis of the same population failed to reach the same conclusion ( Rorsman et al .
17 The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles .
18 The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles .
19 It can only be hoped that the newly aggressive financial players of the Thatcher era manage to avoid the same errors .
20 The superiority of this latter group on a test task which involved choice between A and B could well depend on their having learned different labels ( and on the control group having learned the same label ) for these stimuli .
21 ‘ We have sites in France and the UK and now we have a strong presence in Germany — a cohesive team fighting to achieve the same objective . ’
22 To be equivalent to this , an investment in a two-year bond has to yield the same amount , implying that the current two-year rate is rs 2 = 7 per cent : 100(1.07) 2 = 114.49 .
23 Hawthorn and oak had colonised the same embankment .
24 Whatever the nature of their relationship , it was clear that husband and wife had shared the same flat .
25 same sort of direction continue to do the same sort of things .
26 However the front end of the Ballymena triple failed to produce the same consistency in the second half of the game , otherwise it may well have been a different story .
27 More recently in Cinnamond v. British Airports Authority his Lordship has invoked the same type of reasoning , stating that operators of cabs at an airport had no legitimate expectation which would warrant granting them a hearing .
28 Now the government is trying another policy designed to achieve the same end .
29 Theoretically , we might expect this to be so , since the same environment tends to support the same kind of organisms , but in fact the persistence of some fossils appears to go far beyond what we know at the present day .
30 Since transmission is largely on a foal-to-foal basis it is good policy to avoid using the same paddocks for nursing mares and their foals in successive years .
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