Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His eyes had turned the same colour and I caught a whiff of that strange perfume which sometimes emanated from him , sweet but sickly . |
| 3 | LOOKING back , Offshore Europe 93 may be remembered as the event at which the oil industry and its contractors started playing the same tune . |
| 4 | Two promoters had obtained the same A G ( all mutations are indicated for the upper strand ) substitution at position -65 , two promoters had obtained an A G substitution at -72 , three promoters had obtained double mutations : A G at -65 together with C T at -1 , A G at -65 with C T at +4 and A G at -65 together with A G at -33 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God . |
| 7 | In itself this was not so radical a departure from polling methods , and soon Gallup and other agencies began to adopt the same methods . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Many of the teachers began acting the same way , believing the Headmaster might punish them too if they did n't follow his example . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He told his fellow prisoners of an attack on a colonial settlement where the creatures had made the same noises just before they raided and massacred the colonists . |
| 13 | According to reliable sources , but unknown to Jack , at least three other signalmen had experienced the same chain of events , but all had kept their frightening experiences to themselves to avoid the ridicule of their workmates . |
| 14 | Most of the new members had held the same portfolios in the Council of Ministers , including Marshal Dmitry Yazov as Defence Minister , Sergei Lushchikov as Justice Minister , and Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov as chair of the State Security Committee ( KGB ) . |
| 15 | 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 . ) |
| 16 | Licensed deposit-takers had to meet the same requirements , but did not need to offer as wide a range of services . |
| 17 | And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did . |
| 18 | Others had had the same idea . |
| 19 | Others had tried the same demolition job when Ian Hislop took over at Private Eye , but the continued involvement of icons Ingrams and Cook helped him survive . |
| 20 | My soldiers had inherited the same genes from the present queen as those old soldiers had inherited from the ancestral queens . |
| 21 | Every piece of their household effects had been sold to buy bread , and in many cases the tiles of the roofs had shared the same fate … |
| 22 | On this question all social grades had taken the same line — the need to seize local gentry estates . |