Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has been well said that to say the same thing in a different age is to say something different .
2 Hence a depressed person may well remember their childhood as considerably less happy than they would have done if asked the same questions before the onset of their current depressive symptoms .
3 The ordeal of repetition is a way to jumpstart the indecision of beginning again : not to repeat what has been done but to retrace the same path .
4 The same object may reflect different wavelengths at different times yet be seen as having the same colour .
5 Levi goes on to insist that the real witnesses are those who died in the camps , and that those prisoners who did not were mostly compromised people or privileged people : Solzhenitsyn is cited as making the same point about the pridurki — the ‘ prominents ’ of the Gulag system .
6 If the tube is defined as having the same length as the unperturbed chain , nl o , where l o is the bond length under θ conditions ( corrected for short range interactions ) , then the time required for the chain to reptate out of the tube is proportional to the square of the distance travelled , i.e.
7 The draftsman must , therefore , express himself consistently throughout the lease , for a word used in one part of the lease will probably be construed as having the same meaning if used in another part of the same document .
8 It is a bit like arguing that if the hypothesis that smoking causes lung cancer is to be believed , everybody who smokes must get cancer ; what is more nothing else ( such as asbestos ) can be admitted as having the same effect .
9 In the matter of contract , drunkenness is regarded as having the same effect as insanity .
10 So , for instance , a variation in ministerial statements on the legislative intention behind a provision in a Government Bill might be sufficient to characterize the statements as unclear , but a similar variation in the statements in the Commons and the Lords by the promoters of a private Members Bill might not be treated as having the same significance .
11 Marjorie Perloff has remarked that young American academics and students have a shared culture based on having read or studied the same books : ‘ they have , by and large , taken courses that expose them to writers like Freud , Nietzsche , and Marx , whereas the odds are that they have not taken a course in , say , the lyric poetry of Goethe , the fiction of Stendhal , or the theatre of Molière . ’
12 The knowledge world is seen as being equivalent to a population , and the spread of an idea through that population is described as following the same pattern as the spread of an infectious disease through that population .
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