Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again in the 45–60 age group , noticeably higher proportions of unmarried women were caring for someone in the same household , were the main carers of their disabled relatives and friends , and were caring for over twenty hours a week than were either their married or male counterparts ( Green , 1988 , pp. 9–10 ) . |
| 2 | Around 1.7 million of these were looking after someone in the same household ; 1.4 million were providing help or supervision for at least twenty hours a week ; and 3.7 million were carrying the main responsibility for providing that help ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | We were always out there looking for something new , trying to find any slight glimmer of someone with the same kind of ideas as us . |
| 4 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 5 | A six-footer behind some-one of the same size in the driver 's seat would have to sit in a splayed knees/bent neck posture . |
| 6 | Certainly , the only go , the only way I run a shift , the way she runs checkouts , is erm , by going , you , it 's the same thing every day , you 've got to run through everything on the same point order , because you know , you 've been doing it , it 's got to be done at the same time , like bread the last lot 's got to be on by four . |
| 7 | If you 're on a sailing or windsurf holiday you may still book without a supplement if you 're willing to share with someone on the same holiday . |
| 8 | In the absence of an analysis of heterosexism , heterosexuals can ( and do ) reduce our gayness or lesbianism to just living with someone of the same sex , thus enabling them to remove the possibility of challenge from our relationships with them . |
| 9 | I move away as I would prefer to talk with someone from the same planet . |
| 10 | Though Craig and Jo have a number of sexy scenes together in Home and Away , she says the advantage of her real-life relationship with someone in the same industry is that her partner fully understands that romantic clinches with an international heart-throb are just part of the job . |
| 11 | It is theoretically possible for a cow to jump over the moon with something like the same improbability . |
| 12 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
| 13 | E.D. Simon , Chairman of Manchester Housing Committee ( 1919–23 ) and Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Health ( 1931 ) was confident of being able to rebuild Britain within 20 years : ‘ If we can tackle the problems of peace with anything like the same sense of purpose , the same devotion , and the same efficiency as we have shown during the war , the Rebuilding of Britain will be child 's play ’ ( Simon , 1945 , p. 228 ) . |
| 14 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 15 | RICHMOND Golf Club produced a remarkable family double when Peter Hughes and his son both holed in one on the same day . |
| 16 | He was therefore as vital a figure as Salisbury , and in something of the same way : Salisbury was the link between the anti-coalition forces outside the government , and Law was the link between anti-coalitionists outside and critical Unionists within . |
| 17 | But the term could be extended , so that kangaroos might be said to represent deer in Australia because they live in something like the same way . |
| 18 | I would love to hear from anyone in the same situation . |
| 19 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 20 | Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’ |
| 21 | Her instinct is to relate to everyone in the same way . |
| 22 | Now these standards need to be visible , common to everyone in the same job , and fixed , er , like a yardstick , by which the employee can measure his activities for himself . |
| 23 | to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex . |
| 24 | She had reduced the voice to something on the same level of annoyance as a heavy breather . |
| 25 | Pennies and Singing Detective raised interest and expectation , but not on anything like the same scale . |
| 26 | His competitor , Barry O'Donovan of Carbrook Chemicals , does not export on anything like the same scale as himself , he says . |
| 27 | Women rowers ca n't take part on anything like the same scale as the men yet , but the feeling was they 're here to stay : |
| 28 | George V had found Lloyd George 's scattering of honours ‘ disagreeable and distasteful ’ , according to his private secretary , Lord Stamfordham , and while no subsequent prime minister has abused the system to anything like the same degree , they can not kick the habit . |
| 29 | Radio and television programmes of the high inquiring calibre of ‘ Today ’ , ‘ The World at One ’ or ‘ Newsnight ’ do not exist in France to anything like the same degree . |
| 30 | Quality control is not ‘ externalized ’ , nor is maintenance , to anything like the same degree as in more traditional modernist organizations . |