Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Success Sunderland are adopting the same formation that brought Ipswich success in the 70s , and the results have been encouraging enough to persuade the 37-year-old boss to call off his search for a midfield playmaker .
2 They fought like wounded lions in the next game ; 20 ; 30 years on Swindon are showing the same spirit .
3 The dogs who attacked Becky were destroyed the same day .
4 Increasingly Hick is having the same problem at county level as bowlers realise a potential flaw .
5 Mixu Paatelainen was shown the same consideration earlier in the season and the word from the maternity unit at Pittodrie is that Mrs Duncan Shearer is next in the gynaecological line .
6 Borland is attacking the same problem with its WINDOS concept , under which the Windows and DOS versions of Quattro Pro are sold together in one box .
7 The Yorkshire is taking the same approach but also provides booster discounts that will cut the cost of a mortgage by 2.55 per cent for first-time buyers , but only for six months .
8 As a comparison , he pointed out that if the entire population of China were set the same task , it would take them more than four hours to complete it .
9 Brian Horton 's named the same side which took a point off top of the table Blackburn Rovers last week .
10 Half a century later the top-hatted , side-whiskered Stingy Uncle in Punch was giving the same advice .
11 ‘ The idiotic thing about the delay of Brel 's order is that BR is paying the same money to keep clapped out 30 year-old trains running that it would cost to lease the new rolling stock . ’
12 Now that Mr Kinnock is achieving the same effect , ought this not to attract the modest admiration of an opponent whose vision of British politics has , in any case , always seen Republicans and Democrats — capitalist parties both — as the model which a well-ordered , post-Thatcherite country should emulate ?
13 He was sure that McAllister was undergoing the same experience .
14 Of his playing partners , Greg Norman was fined the same amount , but Ken Brown , who had been punished the day before , had to fork out £100 for a second offence .
15 ‘ Although Chris and I had divorced , we still played together , standing three feet from each other , and Lindsey and Stevie were doing the same number .
16 She saw that Defries and Johannsen were attempting the same manoeuvre .
17 The other son 's converted to Mohammed and they say George is going the same way .
18 By staying away from Crathie Church , Diana is showing the same decency , dignity and consideration that the nation has come to expect from her .
19 Shakespeare is making the same point as Donne — ‘ Love 's not so pure , and abstract , as they use/To say , which have no mistress but their muse ’ — as he has done obliquely in Venus and Adonis with the picture of the horse exuding desire ( 259–324 ) .
20 William Hulbert offered Burghley 100 angels if he would get the post of customer at Bristol transferred to J. Dowlie , who had probably bought it from Hulbert ; Henry Goldingham promised £100 for the post of controller of the customs at Ipswich ; and Herbert Croft wrote that Richard Davis was offering the same amount for a judgeship in Wales .
21 Kemp was discharged the same day , but Raynsford — the more seriously injured — was kept in by doctors until Monday .
22 Cora-Beth was thinking the same thing as she watched Harry partner one of her former school friends on the dance floor .
23 Baden is undergoing the same transformation that is revitalising southern France .
24 Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s .
25 Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s .
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