Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated .
2 The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents .
3 Why How did your brothers manage to do the same job as he did ?
4 I had suggested all cars would inevitably look the same , as rival designers struggled to meet the same constraints dictated by safety requirements and ever-better fuel economy .
5 There is some repetition as the authors backtrack to report the same developments from different points of view and new characters are introduced ; the detailed mathematical discussions do become daunting for the non-specialist reader .
6 the design of policy in the presence of rival models purporting to represent the same economy ;
7 The so-called modern values bring about a convergence of culture through improved mass communications , the elites of Third World countries come to share the same culture as those in the industrialised world .
8 Adjectives seem to need the same rule , to produce stress patterns such
9 The village rector asked the mourners to try to show the same love that brought them to the service …
10 ‘ America is so big that bands are n't surrounded by other bands trying to do the same thing .
11 I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream .
12 The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God .
13 But both firms happen to have the same dividends and the same share price , so that the net and gross dividend yields are the same at 5.31 and 7.08 per cent respectively .
14 Most importantly , the people who will have to implement the community care reforms seem to share the same vision and , despite certain reservations , the same enthusiasm .
15 In itself this was not so radical a departure from polling methods , and soon Gallup and other agencies began to adopt the same methods .
16 However , the classical writers tended to transfer the same principles of adjustment from the microeconomic to the macroeconomic plane , though their applicability at this level of aggregation is altogether more problematical , as Keynes was to point out .
17 I would be far happier seeing 15,000 kilograms of grapes in a fine , ripe and healthy year yielding 86.66 hectolitres of juice , than 13,000 kilograms stretched to supply the same volume of juice , leaving 2,000 kilograms of grapes of the same quality to rot on the vine .
18 Crews and sponsors tend to frequent the same restaurants , pubs and hotels .
19 He now realized that specialization for a particular way of life was an advantage even in a stable environment , because it allowed a species to escape from the pressure of rivals seeking to exploit the same resource .
20 They , indeed , were the first animals to master flight and they did so some two hundred million years before birds managed to do the same thing .
21 However , evidence of different structures in other programs designed to perform the same function would assist the plaintiff who argued that the structure of his program was protectable expression and not unprotectable idea .
22 In its turn , the government rejected FMLN accusations that it was misleading national and international opinion into believing that the Treasury Police and National Guard had been disbanded when , according to the guerrillas , these forces continued to occupy the same installations , with the same structures and weapons but wearing a different uniform .
23 In each lexical domain , children appear to make the same assumption : newly acquired words contrast with those already known .
24 Children learned to make the same response ( X ) to the visual stimuli A and B , and a different response ( Y ) to stimulus C. ( for some subjects X and Y were different verbal labels , for others they were different hand movements . )
25 Licensed deposit-takers had to meet the same requirements , but did not need to offer as wide a range of services .
26 Users of desktop publishing systems looking to provide the same interconnectivity generally find that , at best , the software will only recognise the network as a path for transferring files and , more usually , that it simply wo n't work at all .
27 And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did .
28 Most patterns need to go the same way on all pieces joined , so this must be taken into account when ordering .
29 Now , unemployment among unskilled black people is six times higher than among whites , because employers have to pay the same rate to both , and they express their prefence by choosing white employees .
30 Some of the tense/aspect distinctions of American Black English which have attracted the attention of sociolinguists seem to introduce the same problems of underlying structural non-identity as the Irish English perfect — an example is perfective done , illustrated by 19–21 .
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