Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God . |
| 4 | In itself this was not so radical a departure from polling methods , and soon Gallup and other agencies began to adopt the same methods . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ) |
| 9 | Licensed deposit-takers had to meet the same requirements , but did not need to offer as wide a range of services . |
| 10 | And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did . |