Example sentences of "[noun sg] did [adv] [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several chances fell to Wright before the visiting defence settled , but again Hibs ' leading scorer did not show the same sharpness as he did earlier in the season . |
| 2 | Federalism did not prevent the same trends occurring in the United States , especially under Roosevelt 's New Deal — demonstrating the increasing irrelevance of the distinction between federal and unitary states in an era which generates overwhelming pressures towards a more centralized state . |
| 3 | For even if the setting did not have the same grandeur and the leading characters did not have the same epic cast as twenty years earlier , the role that de Gaulle himself had to play was at least as arduous as that which he had played in the Second World War . |
| 4 | The 1952 Works Constitution Law spread workers ' powers more widely across German industry , although this act did not give the same degree of influence as was provided in the coal and steel industries . |
| 5 | Born the same year as Joseph Conrad [ q.v. ] , his reputation became established earlier , though his work did not retain the same general literary esteem . |
| 6 | A former Minister of the Republic of Ireland told me recently that sovereignty did not mean the same for the people of Ireland as it did for us . |
| 7 | For Elizabeth Gould , however , this ornithological cornucopia right on the doorstep did not hold the same all-encompassing fascination . |
| 8 | Television did not provide the same variety of stations as the radio : in Ajdabiya and Kufra the only accessible signals were broadcast from the state television station . |
| 9 | Times were hard , and society did not take the same enlightened view of illegitimate children that it does today . |
| 10 | They aim to capture the same market — small to medium-sized businesses that in the past did not have the same buying power as blue-chip companies . |
| 11 | However , a subject did not see the same material in more than one of its forms . |
| 12 | An official ‘ democracy wall ’ in another part of the city did not have the same appeal as the original and even that was closed down in September 1980 . |
| 13 | ‘ I … ’ she began , bewildered , the pain in her lip did not send the same honeyed message to her body , ‘ I do n't know … . ’ |