Example sentences of "same [noun sg] as [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Harman also claimed the Conservatives had ‘ ruthlessly fiddled the NHS waiting list figures with the same ruthlessness as they fiddled the unemployment figures , ’ and had created a two-tier health service . |
| 2 | In the same issue as you lament the trials of staff facing disciplinary procedures ( leading article and ‘ Guilty until proven innocent ’ , 4 March ) , you publish another article which tells us : ‘ sexual abuse of children by care staff seems disturbingly common ’ ( Gender politics ’ ) . |
| 3 | She had the feeling that at any second he might get up and walk around her , judging her from all angles in much the same manner as one assessed the points of a horse , and she lifted her chin , staring at him coolly . |
| 4 | she took that out in the , in the same year as we started the mortgage , she thought it was a good idea to take some extra saving . |
| 5 | But as well as that Leonard has an even bigger incentive — to win an outdoor national title in the same year as he lifted the prestigious Irish Indoor Bowling Association crown at the Antrim Forum . |
| 6 | Some cultures make extensive use of learned gestures and they do indeed have to be learned in the same way as one learns the word for " station " or how to refuse politely . |
| 7 | Unfortunately it would appear , or perhaps fortunately , depending on , on one 's views , erm , the policy has always been quite clear , that we should treat them in exactly the same way as we treat the independent sector , and that there would be an arm 's length independent inspection , that has now been made explicitly clear that that is the requirement , and therefore you would have to withdraw that and say that if there is a requirement to find a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of savings , we will have to go and identify another area rather than that . |
| 8 | Blessed are you when you suffer insults and persecution and cowardliness of every kind from my face exult and be glad for you have a rich reward in heaven in the same way as they persecuted the prophets who bore you . |
| 9 | However , the IBA would not run Channel Four as a franchise in the same way as it ran the other regional companies , but would instead own it . |
| 10 | The Fund would review the Soviet economy in the same way as it did the economies of members , would provide the Soviet Union with technical assistance on agreed projects , would invite a Soviet representative to appropriate IMF executive board and other meetings and would " give favourable consideration " to requests from union republics for the extension to them of similar undertakings . |
| 11 | When I was anorexic I postponed the idea of myself-as-mortal in the same way as I postponed the idea of myself-as-sexual-being . |
| 12 | It was a big step to take , but there was no way I could contemplate settling down to bring up my family in London , and I knew my wife felt the same way as she loved the sea and country . |
| 13 | Outlets for the lottery — which could include post offices as well as small shops and newsagents — will sell scratch-off cards for the minor games at the same time as they take the money for the lottery . |
| 14 | Indeed , at the same time as they debated the general strike , leaders of the Second International became increasingly interested in the implications of modern capitalist developments for the elimination of war . |
| 15 | But because of their concern they made a direction at the same time as they made the care order . |
| 16 | Advice workers need the chance to consult with colleagues at the same time as they consult the information files . |
| 17 | 1 The fact that those on the right and in the Establishment have become increasingly critical of the British constitution ( critical that is of party politics , pressure-group politics , parliamentary sovereignty and unlimited democracy itself ) at the same time as they defend the integrity of capitalism and attack socialism , has rather disturbed the orthodoxy as to the close fit and supporting connection between liberal-democracy and capitalism . |
| 18 | Erm , the simulator will be developed er for this aircraft starting at the same time as we enter the production investment phase . |
| 19 | Oh , well she bought the house same time as we bought the house you see |
| 20 | Immacolata said it glowed prettily , the light was flattering , and this recollection passed across his mind at the same time as he registered the woman 's contorted face , her blotched cheeks and veined eyes , and began to hear what she was saying : |
| 21 | He seemed , indeed , to have become much more decisive altogether , for at exactly the same time as he signed the rescript , he created a new governmental body under his own chairmanship , the Council of Ministers , whose purpose was apparently to strengthen his grip on the central administration . |
| 22 | He condemns the monk : at the same time as he acknowledges the monk 's ingenuity that has provided him with his sexual reward : This monk does not suffer the retributive poetic justice that is so frequently met with by lecherous clerics in the French fabliaux . |
| 23 | At the same time as he announced the establishment of the committee , Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine also called on Britain 's top 1,000 companies to form a " green club " committed to cutting pollution and producing environmentally sound products . |
| 24 | One could attempt to limit the " period of difficulty " to the two years by having a declaration of solvency ( if applicable ) sworn by the husband at the same time as he makes the conveyance ( see Chapter 10 , Precedent 81 ) and hope that that is acceptable to a prospective purchaser from the wife between the expiry of the two years and five year period . |
| 25 | Behind the garden were several acres of rough pasture , which Mr Coleby had bought at the same time as he bought the strip of wasteland that linked the pasture to Champney Road . |
| 26 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |
| 27 | This was the era of competitive capitalism and the laisser-faire state which simply sought to guarantee freedom of contract and trade at the same time as it dismantled the restrictive apparatus of the feudal economy and secured public order at home and defence from abroad . |
| 28 | One can hardly say the same about the Post Office which busts a gut licking the boots of its business users at the same time as it cuts the quality of service to residential customers . |
| 29 | This multiplies the humour for those in the know , at the same time as it enhances the potentially shocking behaviour of the poet-narrator . |
| 30 | At the same time as you fill the aquarium , put some tap-water into a clean shallow dish to stand overnight . |