Example sentences of "same [noun sg] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But even between children brought up in the same home with the same advantages , one with another , at 7 there are still huge differences .
2 several streets all very like one another , and many more streets still more like one another , inhabited by people equally like one another , who all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow , and every year the counterpart of the last and the next .
3 Dickens likened the piston of the steam engine to " the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness " , but even by 1815 it was only a minority of the working population who had as yet been cast in the mould of his 1845 Coketowners who , " all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow " .
4 They all came from similar backgrounds and , as like minds , they were all congregating at the same place for the same reasons .
5 It often happens , you fish a particular swim and have a good catch , return a day or two later , fish in the same manner under the same conditions and score a blank .
6 Certain infallible rules have been established , and we carry on an unvarying routine in which we apply the same theory to the same cases . ’
7 I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other .
8 They glared at each other across the table , two people in early middle age who had had the same quarrel in the same words many times .
9 We found that for the same journey in the same conditions , our average mpg shot up to 52 .
10 Perpendicular without intermission , taking steps of the same length at the same intervals , their arms hanging useless and helpless they were no better than trussed chickens but for their faces which , even in repose , suggested movement no less than a bird 's wings … .
11 Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies .
12 With most sentences , particularly non-observational sentences , no clear answer will emerge because the natives will not all behave in the same way in the same conditions .
13 Would he care to address the fact that because these orders are being taken separately for Wales and England it is not possible to make the quota applicable in the same way in the same parts of the United Kingdom .
14 One may truly get the sense of the Reeve 's Tale being played by the same company with the same costumes on the same stage as the Miller 's Tale : Absolon 's red hose for the " " halyday " " ( 3319 – 40 ) re-appear early on ( 3952 – 5 ) , and the daughter has the same grey eyes as the delicate Absolon ( 3317 , 3974 ) .
15 At present English procedure only permits representative actions , whereby members of a group must have the same interest in the same proceedings ; the action can not seek damages , but only some other form of relief .
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