Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] same [noun] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If these are mixed in the same diagram the distinctions between categories should be indicated by using differently shaped blocks .
2 And these roles are are occupied by the same people every year ?
3 In a linked announcement made at the same time the company unveiled a low-end addition to its 6611 multi-protocol router family — designed to tackle the burgeoning and lucrative branch-office market .
4 Net profits slumped by 41% to $12.3m compared with the same period a year ago .
5 Third-quarter net profits at News Corp more than doubled to A$191m ( $140m ) , compared with the same period a year ago ; net profit for the nine months to the end of March increased to A$144m .
6 The Treasury 's forecast , indicates gross domestic product in Britain this year will increase by 1 p.c. , rising to 3 p.c. in the first six months of 1993 , compared with the same period the previous year .
7 He noted , in his journal in October 1919 , that there had been an increase of 37 vagrants attending the institution as ‘ casuals ’ in the previous two weeks compared with the same period the previous year ; six of them were discharged soldiers .
8 Thailand increased its rubber exports by 31 per cent in the first half of 1985 compared with the same period the year before — yet its rubber revenues fell by eight per cent1 .
9 Britain 's non-oil exports to France were up by 12 per cent last December , compared to the same month the year before .
10 One member of the defence team estimated that Newall 's brother , Mark , a broker based in Paris who was arrested on the same charges a few days ago and now faces extradition from France , has paid more than £100,000 so far in legal costs in Gibraltar .
11 My answer again is practical and comes from a further eight 30 min lessons given to the same children a year later .
12 It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified .
13 , Abraham ( c. 1793–1860 ) , bricklayer and the last man subjected to an ‘ appeal of murder ’ , by which a person acquitted of murder could be tried for the same offence a second time , was born c .1793 , the son of a Castle Bromwich builder .
14 Fought in the same regiment-in the Civil War .
15 Hong Kong 's partially elected Legislative Council passed on the same day a motion calling for amendments , particularly to increase provisions for democratic representation and to limit the circumstances in which emergency powers could be assumed by the Chinese authorities .
16 A dépot des archives was set up in 1688 ; while the Marquis de Torcy ( Louis 's last Foreign Minister ) had begun about the same time the creation of a rudimentary Press bureau .
17 When faced with the same problem the compilers of the LOB corpus opted for a statistical approach .
18 Do n't assume that questions will be worded in the same way every year .
19 If the fish are obtained from the same area the chances are that they all came from the same parents .
20 Hitler 's massive personal popularity enhanced at the same time the readiness to accept uncritically his proclaimed struggle against the immense ( but anonymous ) power of world Jewry , and to welcome the increasing levels of ‘ legal ’ discrimination against Jews which he publicly advocated .
21 Jekyll 's servant had received by the same post a letter similar to mine , and he was waiting for me with the locksmith .
22 When paid from the same age the difference in capital value is 10 per cent .
23 Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time .
24 At the inquest held on the same day the jury found that he had been in a deranged state of mind , his friend Wilshere having given evidence to that effect .
25 The State Council and the Council of Ministers , acting upon a recommendation made by the central committee of the ruling Bulgarian Communist party ( BCP ) on Dec. 29 , had published on the same day a joint resolution " condemning all actions which curtail the right to a free choice of name , to freedom of religion , and also the right of everyone — while formally recognizing and using the Bulgarian language as the official language — to speak other languages in their day-to-day communication and to observe their customs " .
26 In legislative elections held at the same time the PLN won 29 of the 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly .
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