Example sentences of "[verb] the same [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when he went on teaching practice , Liang Heng found himself transmitting the same old dogma : ‘ The blind obedience that made the Cultural Revolution possible was being fostered still . |
| 2 | We have to wait patiently a little while longer yet to determine whether the new generation Alpha RISC machines have turned Digital Equipment Corp around or whether the company is pursuing the same downward curve as IBM Corp , because the company has still scarcely started shipping the machines in real numbers — but it does not make it clear whether that is a function of supply or demand . |
| 3 | In the meantime , oxygen could not have accumulated at this early stage ( without biological help ) because it would absorb the same ultraviolet rays . |
| 4 | Both rooms had received the same brutal searching treatment . |
| 5 | Security 's being tightened up around the breeding pens … but staff are committed to maintaining the same easy access to the birds for visitors to the trust . |
| 6 | If we strip it of the insulation apparently provided by its appeal to the technology of literacy , we will expose the same ethnocentric claims and uncritical faith in the observer 's own ways of thinking . |
| 7 | The change also raises important theoretical questions because reading by touch involves the same cognitive and linguistic skills as visual reading but uses a system which differs physically and in modality . |
| 8 | The system involves the same military satellites used in the Gulf war by the Allies to keep track of vehicle movements . |
| 9 | Even if these animals eat the same restricted amount every day , they still grow more rapidly in the summer than in the winter . |
| 10 | Scientists believe human laughter has an evolutionary origin and is linked with monkeys who grin and display the same shoulder-shaking signs . |
| 11 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 12 | The countries that were under the control of ruling Marxist-Leninist parties represented , for the USSR , the ‘ world socialist system ’ , a community of nations that shared the same political , social and economic interests . |
| 13 | At the first hotel I worked in , I had shared an ‘ office , with one other cleaner — a taciturn alcoholic who taught me how to keep my head down — but in my new job , there were five of us who shared the same poky little room . |
| 14 | The pair became good friends and shared the same haughty view of their futures . |
| 15 | Raybestos and the IDA shared the same legal representation at the hearing . |
| 16 | Kirsten proved a fine role model for the impressionable Rhodes throughout the tour , and while on the surface the pair could n't be more contrasting in appearance or temperament , there is no doubting that they shared the same total commitment to their game and country . |
| 17 | The land scorpions were not direct descendants , but belonged to the same broad group and certainly shared the same savage habits . |
| 18 | Both documents shared the same basic principles : education should divide at eleven ; it should be free in both primary and secondary stages ; and that the secondary stage should reflect the variety of abilities and aptitudes of the adolescent in institutional form . |
| 19 | The Scholtz Twins , a brother and sister musical act , was also on the bill and Rose and Bernie shared the same theatrical lodgings with Noreen and Maria at the Benson Theatre Home from Home off Vine Street . |
| 20 | They shared the same social defect — seasonal unemployment — and the same natural hazards — extreme variability in yield between bad and normal years . |
| 21 | A decade or so previously , Nizan had been taught the same bitter lesson . |
| 22 | The constancy of the aggregate parameters rests either on the assumption that individual wealth shares are constant or on the assumption that all investors perceive the same expected returns and variance covariance matrix of returns and exhibit the same degree of absolute risk aversion . |
| 23 | One of the most obvious examples of this principle of ‘ statement and change ’ is the old concerto grosso form , where the main orchestra , or ‘ tutti ’ , always plays the same musical substance , each statement being separated by the solo ‘ concertino ’ group playing something different , usually of a virtuoso character . |
| 24 | It was a lucid dream , with him walking down infinite identical corridors , all painted the same pale blue , all leading to endless identical doors . |
| 25 | The walls and ceilings were all painted the same insipid magnolia and there was rush matting on the floor which trapped bits of food and stuff and hurt if you walked on it with bare feet . |
| 26 | The boredom was broken only by bayoneting rats , bailing more water out of the trench or having to listen to Tommy repeat the same old melodies on a now rusty mouth-organ . |
| 27 | There is a tacit acceptance that , because men are generally more successful in material terms than women , women could become more successful if they made the same educational choices as men . |
| 28 | made the same silly mistake I made before , go the wrong way . |
| 29 | However , after his stepfather 's death in 1859 , when he came into a comfortable inheritance , Wallis never again made the same artistic impact , though he remained an Academy exhibitor until 1877 . |
| 30 | Afterwards he dipped his own thumb into the bowl and made the same yellow mark on Chola 's forehead . |