Example sentences of "same [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) Not more than four occasional permissions may be granted by a licensing board in any one year on behalf of the same voluntary organisation or the same branch of a voluntary organisation . |
| 2 | Wishing for ‘ much the same unity on a higher plane ’ , he presents himself as a kind of agriculturalist , concerned with ‘ our relation to the spiritual soil ’ . |
| 3 | In this way , the polyps synchronise the release of their sexual cells so precisely that the event occurs at the same hour on a particular night each year , turning the sea into a multi-coloured reproductive soup . |
| 4 | BSL therefore provides a great deal of aspectual information directly for the receiver , while English sets out the same story in a different way , allowing alteration of event structure without destroying meaning . |
| 5 | If the employer pays the salary but refuses the services of the worker and this refusal offends his/her personality ( e.g. , lowers his/her reputation amongst fellow workers , prevents his/her professional development etc. ) , the worker can claim that the employer be condemned to pay him/her compensation and/or to really employ him/her ; in the second case , the employer will also be condemned by the same judgement to a pecuniary sanction and to detention in case he does not employ the worker . |
| 6 | Since the 1978 UN Conference on Health at Alma Ata it has become a universal wisdom that it is much more effective to build a primary health care network than to spend the same money on a few prestige hospitals which could only ever be used by an urban elite . |
| 7 | Put into operational terms this means that , at some point , there are likely to be cells that respond in one way to one wavelength at one point in the receptive field and differently to the same wavelength in a different part of the field . |
| 8 | Trivers argues that the chances of selection favouring altruistic behaviour in which individuals dispense a benefit to another greater than the cost of the act will be improved when many potentially altruistic situations arise in the population , when there are repetitive interactions of the same kind within a small group of individuals , and where symmetrical situations favouring the return of benefits are common . |
| 9 | In order to observe a primordial black hole one would have to detect several gamma ray quanta coming from the same direction within a reasonable space of time , such as a week . |
| 10 | Charging principal repayments in lieu of depreciation does not perform the same function in a local authority . |
| 11 | The State of the World 1989 put the same case in a different form : |
| 12 | You 'd have thought that re-creating it on stage would have the same effect on a modern-day director . |
| 13 | He kept pestering the others about what is known as " account trading " ( where one can buy and sell the same stock within a two week period , hoping that the stock price will have risen ) . |
| 14 | The danger here is that , although things may be pleasant for the workers , the incentive to work very hard is not so direct and it may not be possible to maintain a competitive position in comparison with the same industry in a developing country . |
| 15 | You should reassess the case and choose another remedy , though it may first be worth trying a dose of the same remedy in a higher potency if you have it . |
| 16 | Figure 22.10 shows another space-time representation of the same type at a higher Rayleigh number . |
| 17 | However , this implicitly assumes that the investor may be able to reinvest the dividend for the same return at a lower risk than the firm ( or for a higher return for the same risk ) which , given the asymmetry of information , can not be the case unless the firm itself has an inferior investment policy , in which case the investor would be advised to withdraw his or her investment from the firm completely . |
| 18 | Other investigations have addressed the same question in a clinical context . |
| 19 | 2 weeks before the big game , he broke his ankle and then suffered the same fate in a Sevens tournament last April . |
| 20 | However , it seemed a shame to be able to design the forms using the computer and not be able to complete them on the same machine at a later point . |
| 21 | However , it seemed a shame to be able to design the forms using the computer and not be able to complete them on the same machine at a later point . |
| 22 | We sum vertically at a given quantity because everyone consumes the same quantity of a public good by definition . |
| 23 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 24 | Mr McNeil said the region had tried but failed to persuade the CRE to conduct the same inquiry on a nationwide basis , and regretted its decision to proceed . |
| 25 | The ‘ heavies ’ all carried more or less the same picture of a statuesque blonde , at first sight naked , standing on the rostrum , her arm outstretched in the direction of Sir Charles Webb-Bowen , whose incredulous , even leery expression , was later to be the cause of much hilarity . |
| 26 | Figure 15–3 makes the same point in a simple diagram . |
| 27 | The development of 19C painting in Czechoslovakia follows that elsewhere in Europe , but here it is imbued with the same emergence of a national consciousness which can also be seen in literature and architecture . |
| 28 | High wages , they feel , will affect the final cost of their product , and if their product is too expensive there is always another entrepreneur who will sell the same product at a cheaper price . |
| 29 | Products in one country might not serve the same function as the same product in a different country . |
| 30 | The latter accepts shelf-life [ i.e. that books will be available in the same place for a reasonable period of time ] as part of the process , the librarian-disposer wants quick clearance . |