Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 've asked him to meet us with regard to the footpaths , so we could use it for that at the same time , |
| 2 | Sectarianism and intimidation in the workplace have not been taken into account either , when we asked about this at the same meeting we were told you had to prove you were being intimidated . |
| 3 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |
| 4 | Towards the end of the 3-day FFA meeting , the Japanese , ‘ in a spirit of goodwill and co-operation' ’ , offered to hold the drift-net fleet for 1989–90 to the same level as the previous season — 60 vessels . |
| 5 | It should be sent ( or preferably taken ) as soon as possible , together with the free death certificate ( Form BD8 ) which you will have been given by the Registrar of Births and Deaths , to the local Social Security Office , and as in most cases there is an entitlement to a National Insurance death grant , application can be made for this at the same time . |
| 6 | The crime rate was reported on July 6 , 1990 , to have risen by 11.9 per cent over the previous year , and on Oct. 25 , 1991 , to have risen by 10.9 per cent in the first nine months of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 7 | A Home Office statistical bulletin said nationally police recorded an 11pc increase in offences in the last quarter of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 8 | Thus in so far as the provisions of the Act of 1987 are ambiguous , guidance can be sought from the Order of 1991 in the same way as guidance can be sought from a later enactment for the construction of an earlier one : Kirkness v. John Hudson & Co . Ltd . |
| 9 | It was one of six in the same building , but because the conversion had been done without planning permission , it did n't officially exist , and they 're saddled with a mortgage of £39,000 . |
| 10 | Well course , there 's gon na be a certain amount of all in the same day is n't there ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the spring , this need of young animals for the company of those of the same age is very obvious . |
| 13 | Stronger than expected demand is the main reason : the International Energy Agency reckons that OECD oil consumption climbed by more than 5% from the last quarter of 1987 to the same period of 1988 . |
| 14 | It is worth comparing a text of Papinian in the same title which deals with the same question , but which employs the perfectly acceptable expression per fideicommissum relicti . |
| 15 | More than 1,750,000 crimes were reported to the Interior Ministry during January-September 1989 ( with 58 per cent committed by 14-29-year-olds ) — an increase of one-third on the same period in 1988 [ see p. 36855 ] ; by the year-end the figure was 2,500,000 , with one-third of cases unsolved . |
| 16 | This block is widely considered the most important item in US philately ; a second block of four from the same sheet made $528,000 ( £338,462 ) , in line with estimate . |
| 17 | The defendants are also charged with abduction and attempting to abduct another boy of two on the same day . |
| 18 | Against Yorkshire that year he had match figures of 15 for 75 and three years later claimed an even more remarkable 15 for 31 against the same side . |
| 19 | And since one partial theory can be played off against another in the same way that sentences can , we have eventually to hold , with Quine , that ‘ the unit of empirical significance is the whole of science ’ . |
| 20 | According to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures , the IoS averaged 374,084 for July to December against 352,335 for the same period in 1990 . |
| 21 | Darlington Victim Support had 1,139 referrals between January and March compared with 654 in the same period last year . |
| 22 | The similarity of the central flower in mosaic 7 with that in the same position in mosaic C is more compelling . |
| 23 | The total was 109,373 compared with 101,107 for the same period last year , said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 24 | FSO sold just 99 cars compared with 480 in the same month last year . |
| 25 | It was being driven by a very po-faced Englishman with another of the same ilk beside him and the car was spotlessly clean . |
| 26 | Even if you are replacing a basin with another in the same position , it is unlikely that you will be able to use the existing tap connectors . |
| 27 | And , if you want to press the architectural simile a little , the many variations on a helical theme ( with their emphasis on a set of rules of proportion ) represent a style that is unmistakably classical , with much of the same appeal . |
| 28 | Due to your efforts sales are ‘ just ’ above those for the same period last year . |
| 29 | SEVEN sendings-off made it the season 's worst day for discipline and took the total to 50 , compared with 64 at the same stage last season . |
| 30 | Children quarrelled most often with those of the same sex . |