Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can also happen due to build-up of tolerance , when you need more and more of a drug to get the same effect . |
| 2 | There seems no reason why an express provision could not be included in a contract to achieve the same result ; for instance : It is agreed that if any of the goods included in the Buyer 's order have been delivered before the formation of this contract , the provisions of this agreement shall apply to those goods and govern the rights and liabilities of the parties in relation to those goods . |
| 3 | Now ask a friend to do the same analysis of your attitudes , preferences and prejudices . |
| 4 | Detective Inspector Frank Wilkinson of Skelmersdale CID said : ‘ We want to find this man before he has a chance to do the same thing again . |
| 5 | Now that two hundred pound will only pay one man for a for a week to do the same thing . |
| 6 | Among the peers identified by the parliamentary writer Andrew Roth as voting in favour of a measure which would oblige a labourer to pay the same amount of tax as a millionaire were the Duke of Buccleuch , the biggest landowner in Europe , the beef magnate Lord Vestey , another of the richest men in Britain , and the eighty-three-year-old Marquis of Bath , of the Longleat Estate . |
| 7 | Once we have achieved the result we want we can then decide whether laser printed output is suitable or use the services of a bureau to get the same file photoset on the higher resolution equipment . |
| 8 | To modify the standard where D is very young ( Camplin was 15 ) is understandable : it is not fair to expect a youth to show the same level of self-restraint as an adult . |
| 9 | Zenith had seen Acme 's program in use and decided to write a program to fulfil the same purpose , that is , to monitor drug dosages . |
| 10 | It follows that it is possible for a member to have the same problem raised by both bodies more or less at the same time . |
| 11 | While I accept that , I have to say that we expect those undertaking the review to have complete power to look into all areas and , specifically , to consider whether safety representatives who are not backed by a trade union are in a position to give the same kind of expert advice as would be expected from safety representatives appointed by a trade union . |
| 12 | A person without the use of his sense of sight would certainly not be in a position to make the same use of colour words as the rest of us . |
| 13 | In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed . |
| 14 | There was n't any reason why he 'd want her out of the way , but when you get to be big in his business , the only exit is usually from a prone position , and guys like him develop a tendency to think the same way about people playing the smaller parts . |
| 15 | It will have been noticed that it was common for more than one child in a family to enter the same trade , and our sample very strikingly demonstrates the importance of sisterhood . |
| 16 | Asking him to deliver is like expected a chameleon to stay the same colour whatever its environment . |
| 17 | Thus , he claims IBM 's act of tearing up its price list was a purely symbolic gesture , simply an attempt to keep the same situation going . |
| 18 | Scientists have been holding a one-day strike in an attempt to get the same pay as their European colleagues . |