Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] the same " in BNC.

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1 ( Note , though , that once prices have risen , people will need more money to conduct the same amount of transactions . )
2 Waited 2 ½ hours to see the same official .
3 This will give people the opportunity to see the same actors play three different parts , and it will give me that essential ingredient of a good farce : strong ensemble acting . ’
4 I suppose it 's too much to expect a senior Queen 's Counsel to work the same hours as ordinary folk , ’ Bragg said grumpily .
5 Yesterday Sudbury chairman Iain Hook said the club 's case was based on the fact the division four clubs had a greater need for support as a result of their geographical locations and inability to attract the same amount of outside backing as top clubs .
6 Both the phosphorylation of receptors and their absence means that it takes more of the drug to obtain the same effect .
7 more money to provide the same level of service .
8 It is for schools to embrace the same approach for disruptive pupils .
9 This enables organizations to continue the same system with salary increases , titles , superior offices and furnishings , cars , expense allowances , stock options , etc. , which are , after all , only more sophisticated examples of the process which began with the child 's first jellybean .
10 Manufacturers do n't want computers to suffer the same fate as educational TV — a lot of promise but precious little worthwhile application .
11 Where two tractors are of equal power , the heavier will probably need to be in a lower gear to pull the same weight .
12 The question before me today is whether Parliament , in using similar language in section 265 , intended those words to bear the same meaning as those given to them by the House of Lords under the Act of 1914 .
13 ( make ) Both in the same script : the difference in the attempt to spell the same word indicates fairly clearly a weak visual memory .
14 Promotional activity stresses safety , speed and comfort ( by direct comparison with the use of cars to cover the same type of journey ) , and the central location of termini ( compared with the relative isolation of airports ) .
15 The Japanese know only too well of the dangers that can be posed by Hong Kong 's ‘ expatriate ’ rugby community in their bid to tread the same path for the next World Cup .
16 He admires the work of the PFA and wants his association to win the same respect .
17 In the evening they constructed a bonfire outside , where they drank the healths of James II and his son , forcing passers-by to do the same , and offering insults to those who refused .
18 So anglers need larger weights to do the same job — which could distract the fish .
19 His achievements to date were listed : charges laid on the railway in the Tobruk area on the night of 14 October ; a failed attempt to do the same near Sidi Barani which resulted in the death of the patrol commander , Lieutenant Shorten ; two further breaks in the railway on 24 October ; nine breaks on 29 October , and finally another attack on the track on 31 October .
20 ‘ We will continue … to pursue steadily the path of co-operation with China and we look to the Chinese side to do the same .
21 there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) .
22 Whereas I had seen the doctor who used the charity format as something of a villain , Bulgakov portrays himself as a hero in these stories and plainly expects his Soviet readership to do the same .
23 Thomas stopped and gestured Corbett to do the same .
24 I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea .
25 Tim Moulds will ask Leo Bashyam to do the same .
26 The Cambridge based project forms the ‘ umbrella ’ to wider collaborative research in which several independently financed groups will work in other countries using a similar methodology to address the same issues .
27 Accell/SQL allows both Unix and Windows clients to share the same database , with Unix clients supporting Motif , Open Look , or just plain character interfaces , and the Windows version supports Microsoft Corp 's Dynamic Data Exchange mechanism for applications integration .
28 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 .
29 Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ .
30 Er okay , different words to describe the same and indeed they did n't take out of any fund , but they achieved the same end result .
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