Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the materials have been changing the industry has stayed in the same places . |
| 2 | It is difficult to quantify buying patterns , but I can say that American buying has dipped in the same way that European and non-European buying has dipped . |
| 3 | It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people . |
| 4 | 4 Pulling his left fist back , the defender prepares to strike to the same target area with his right arm . |
| 5 | By contrast , palaeontology had increased over the same periods , from 14 to 25 , not quite doubling . |
| 6 | Still the stitch continued to drop in the same area . |
| 7 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 8 | As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes . |
| 9 | But it is far from certain that all the fish in every corporate shoal want to swim in the same direction . |
| 10 | But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen . |
| 11 | Wimpey Construction Canada , now part of International Operations , and McNamara Construction , processed an increased level of enquiries in 1992 , but the value of work awarded remained at the same level as 1991 . |
| 12 | Nolan J said that the committee had to consist of the same people throughout . |
| 13 | His home had burned with the same anger that the men responsible had felt , the anger which Carrefour had striven to purge himself of . |
| 14 | Nearly all of the changes made by the Conservatives during the 1980s with respect to wages , benefits , taxation and the treatment of wealth have worked in the same direction . |
| 15 | There half an inch of rain has fallen in the same period . |
| 16 | The difficulty appears to me to be that there are too many people in the business seeking to compete in the same areas of demand , without any very great clarity about the sources of their own competitive advantages . |
| 17 | Auxiliary need tends to occur in the same syntactic environments as at all , ever and any , which are typically found in so-called non-assertive sentences . |
| 18 | It seemed louder , more raucous than usual , and she sighed at the prospect of another evening spent listening to the same arguments and bitter reproaches . |
| 19 | However , if all members of a group went swimming at the same time and left valuables unattended , that would be an unnecessary risk where no real precautions had been taken and would be a breach of the duty of care . |
| 20 | Familiarity bred business so it seemed , as established dealers with a limited clientele continued to deal with the same few people day after day , generating sometimes fantastic commissions for themselves , as well as token fines for the overtrading habits that ironically were tacitly encouraged . |
| 21 | More recent authority has come to the same conclusion : see Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent [ 1965 ] 1 QB 623 per Pearson LJ and Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 per Megaw LJ . |
| 22 | In linking the resourcing of the school library to specific curriculum developments , and in making grants only to those schools whose plans comply with specified criteria , the local authority has acted in the same way as such central government agencies as the Department of Education and Science ( DES ) and the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) . |
| 23 | Her father has to sleep in the same room since he has to attend to her during the night when she may need a bed pan up to four times . |
| 24 | The value transferred is to be reduced by the value of any other interest in possession in the property to which the beneficiary becomes entitled at the same time or by the amount of any consideration in money or money 's worth which he has received in respect of the determination or disposal . |
| 25 | For the past year or so , all hon. Members except my hon. Friends on the Front Bench have sung from the same hymn book about decommissioning . |
| 26 | The walls of the craft began to buckle under the same kind of sideways force that was pressing in on her body . |
| 27 | Thus Chambers explains the similarities between Old and New World monkeys as due to life having advanced to the same level of organization from quite independent origins of life in the two hemispheres ( Hodge , 1972 ) . |
| 28 | ( His view of sex seems to suffer from the same ‘ Pharisaical ’ , constraints that ben Eliezer fought against , when he condemns ‘ Celebration ’ as ‘ a failure of tone , ’ ‘ portentous … imagery and the reality of the blow-job . ’ |
| 29 | The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ . |
| 30 | The way he had misled her , Blanche thought , was heinous enough if his loyalty had lain with the same country . |