Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [prep] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of the paradoxes of contemporary political thinking that at the same time as much conventional theory has tried to restrict the idea of democracy to that of choosing a government from competing elites , it is also widely admitted that the theoretical sovereignty of these democratic governments is not in fact matched by their actual powers over society , particularly in relation to the vast conglomerate firms and multi-national companies on whose policies and decisions the employment and livelihood of so many millions now depend . |
| 2 | Eliot may have experienced displeasure at racial mixing in After Strange Gods , which he later withdrew from print as ‘ a bad book ’ , but it was no coincidence that in the same year as the performance of The Rock he defended Frazer , but attacked Ezra Pound 's favourite , Leo Frobenius , whose anthropological doctrines of racial purity he found particularly distasteful . |
| 3 | It is a striking coincidence that in the same year that Aethelbald came to power among the Mercians , the assassination of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in Northumbria and the accession there of Coenred also broke the entrenched power of the family of Aethelfrith which had dominated the kingship of the northern Angles for more than seventy years ( see below , pp. 47 ff . ) . |
| 4 | It was a help that in the same year , 1977 , Robert Fellowes left Harvey & Ross , the discount brokers , to become the Queen 's assistant private secretary . |
| 5 | He will tell members of the county 's public protection committee that at the same time it has become increasingly difficult to man the main consumer advice centres in Durham , Darlington and Bishop Auckland . |
| 6 | It was part of the same southern European pattern that at the same time Greece shook off one more episode of military dictatorship , and with it the monarchy , and established a democratic republic . |
| 7 | Its supporters regarded it as a happy augury that on the same day the Soviet Union finally called off its blockade of Berlin . |
| 8 | Nothing , he found , was more effective — as he tried to devise an inner world that at the same time avoided the black hole of dejection — than work , solitary work , work in which one was gladly buried . |