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

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1 It referred to the same matters as the Financial Secretary had stated to the Committee and concluded :
2 This effect did not depend on oesophageal acidification as it occurred to the same extent with both pH + and pH - common cavity episodes .
3 Hours later she woke to the same sensation of calm fulfilment .
4 Laidlaw was spun round and the Arab checked his rope then he was pushed aside and Graham subjected to the same treatment .
5 And again the Vice-Chancellor alluded to the same idea , at p. 104 :
6 I looked at it afresh and came to the same conclusion . ’
7 Unknowingly Raistrick followed the same path as the St. Mary 's workers and came to the same conclusion : the instability of the antibacterial substance did not make further attempts worth while .
8 In the early 1970s , in the heyday of abstract philosophy of education , it was commonplace to draw a distinction between education ‘ in the true sense ’ and pseudo-education ; or , which came to the same thing , between education and training .
9 Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself .
10 Both the vet and the keeper came to the same conclusion — that Sam had eaten something that did n't agree with him , as he had n't eaten much of his food from the day before .
11 At that precise moment , Delaney came to the same conclusion as Nell .
12 The Times , more restrained , came to the same conclusions : ‘ To most sensible , rational people , a verdict which depends on the evidence of a man like Mathews , in the circumstances in which he gave that evidence , can not be safe . ’
13 Robert Blatchford , Britain 's most popular socialist writer , came to the same conclusion , but went further , writing enthusiastic articles for the Daily Mail in support of military conscription .
14 Goff and Reasons , after analysing the period 1952–72 , came to the same conclusion : ‘ the Combines Branch has centred its attentions upon the investigations , prosecutions , and conviction of small-medium-sized companies and corporations , leaving the very largest corporations free to engage in their monopolistic practices ’ ( 1978 : 86 ) .
15 Darwin and Wallace came to the same conclusion about archipelago birds .
16 He came to the same conclusion as Duncan .
17 In the course of the 1970s various ‘ summary ’ analyses of large numbers of ‘ effectiveness ’ studies — Lipton , Martinson and Wilks ( 1975 ) and Brody ( 1976 ) being perhaps the best known — came to the same negative conclusion .
18 We all came to the same conclusion — the powers that be were determined to make an example of some poor regional company .
19 There is nothing new in that ; we came to the same conclusion earlier when studying the field of a line charge .
20 Brilliant and that came to the same as one quarter .
21 And four twelfths came to the same as ?
22 But no , it appeared not ; report after report , in many different learning tasks and in species as diverse as rats and goldfish , came to the same conclusion .
23 We soon came to the same decision , which was that having promised the boys we would help them , we could n't now let them down .
24 ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose .
25 Twenty years later Channel Four , originally conceived as a publishing house for independent producers , succumbed to the same institutional pressures .
26 These incidents are rare not only because national emergencies are mercifully infrequent , but because for much of the time there is an instinctive understanding between the governors of the broadcasting organization and the government of the nation , as the corporation 's behaviour on issues like appeasement demonstrates ; Reith succumbed to the same collective delusion that had seized Chamberlain , his foreign secretary , Halifax , and most of the population .
27 The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona .
28 At the end of the conference Margaret Thatcher returned to the same theme .
29 The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu .
30 He returned to the same theme in 1953 , but this time to counteract the ambitious European Political Community .
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