Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country .
2 On South Georgia reindeer , introduced from Scandinavia by whalers early in the twentieth century , flourish and appear to be spreading ; horses and sheep introduced to the same island did not survive .
3 A critical appraisal of the existing facilities , together with redesign proposals and plans relating to the same
4 A critical appraisal of the existing facilities , together with redesign proposals and plans relating to the same
5 With the narrow lanes around Bentworth , any approaching traffic would have had to give way and cars travelling in the same direction could have been held up .
6 But he and Eleanor moved in the same set socially .
7 This requires that capital and labour grow at the same rate ; i.e. , and .
8 Will we ever see Volvos and Renaults made in the same factory ?
9 In conclusion , Italy and Sicily suffered from the same divisions and neighbourly jealousies as Old Greece , jealousies made more dangerous by racial friction and the threat of native risings ( cranky philosophical activists did not help ) .
10 Institute president Ian Plaistowe , after reading a newspaper report of Mr Damant 's views , wrote to the Financial Times saying that : ‘ The reduction of differences in the accounting treatment of events and transactions arising in the same circumstances must surely remain as the standard-setters ’ prime objective' .
11 I found Miss Havisham and Estella sitting in the same room , with candles burning as usual .
12 As subject , Edmund acts for himself , doing anything that will advance him : Goneril and Regan live by the same principle .
13 A third balloon inflation and deflation resulted in the same events .
14 In the terms of our earlier discussion , it is as if an external ‘ banker ’ had magically appeared , making it possible for both Bristol and Coventry to benefit from the same outcome , a draw .
15 Alliance councillor Larry Thompson warned that if such a motion was passed and implemented it would act as a catalyst encouraging other groups and organisations to apply for the same free waste collection .
16 In Southampton seamen aboard the Olympic jumped the gun by walking off the liner on 9 June following a stoppage by coal bunkerers and trimmers working on the same ship some days earlier .
17 Syl and Robert arrived at the same time and my mother poured them drinks .
18 Manufacturing techniques and finish are the same ; nuts and bolts come from the same vendors .
19 If this is not diagnosed and recurrences occur at the same site , the patient will be labelled as a refractory case of non-specific urethritis and may be subjected to prolonged courses of antibiotic treatment , which , of course , will have no effect on the course of the disease .
20 A declaration of 19 September 1693 by Anne Mauger , wife of Nicolas , makes clear that her husband and three sons , Nicolas aîń , Nicolas ( dit Colin ) and Louis shared in the same instrument business .
21 When he next spoke it was about something trivial , and Alyssia replied in the same vein , stifling the burning curiosity to find out what dark secrets he was keeping behind that controlled face of his .
22 Bearing in mind that it takes approximately 12 weeks from planting to flowering , it is possible to grow bulbs of many species and varieties to flower at the same time for a spectacular display , and also plant for a succession of flowers if potting up is carefully timed .
23 Laidlaw was spun round and the Arab checked his rope then he was pushed aside and Graham subjected to the same treatment .
24 Beside him , Philippa made strange gestures with her fingers and Rastani replied in the same sign language .
25 In physics this is a simple matter because when the efficiency of a system is measured , both input and output consist of the same quantity : energy .
26 Warnod noted in Comoedia that ‘ Cubism and Orphism belong to the same family .
27 We can tell that the primary visual areas in rats and monkeys come from the same primordial tissue in the embryonic nervous system , but this is n't surprising since all of the cortex arises from this same region .
28 In New Zealand , it formerly applied only where husband and wife lived in the same residence at the time of the rape .
29 The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers .
30 Cholera epidemics happened regularly in my early years , when the filth from one village would be thrown into the river and water drawn from the same river for the villages downstream .
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