Example sentences of "[to-vb] the same [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is pleasant to see the same easy charm , quiet confidence and obliging manner re-establish itself in the new generation of ownership . |
| 2 | My officers find it frustrating to see the same persistant thieves out and about . |
| 3 | When they met under similar circumstances five years ago , to debate the same contentious issue , of whether or not to maintain playing links with South Africa , there was overwhelming support for the Springboks . |
| 4 | In his turn , Tran Van Hieu knelt to perform the same silent acts of obeisance as the older man , but after prostrating himself for the third time , he remained on his knees and to his children 's surprise began to pray aloud . |
| 5 | Although Gaumont-British also declared a loss in 1937 , of £98,000 , Balcon 's departure from the company was precipitated by the prospect of Maxwell , a man whose production philosophy he abhorred , taking a stake in the company , and a general sense that he was n't going to be able to continue the same broad-based production policy as before . |
| 6 | By this time solar illumination was sufficient even in high latitudes to drive the same catalytic ozone destruction cycle involving the ClO dimer that is responsible for the Antarctic ozone hole . |
| 7 | The fact that three of these families had been moderately wealthy in Palestine and had managed to acquire the same social status in their exile — that they behaved and looked like millions of middle-class couples in Europe , or indeed in Israel — only compounded my error . |
| 8 | ‘ But I think the average employee in the public sector , who has a job , knows perfectly well that , in the public services nowadays , you have to accept the same sensible level of settlements that people do outside , where things are going hard . |
| 9 | Besides City work , Norman Broadbent has continued to attract the same high-powered assignments which came its way when it was with Russell Reynolds : 40% of its assignments were at CEO and MD level in 1987 , compared with 24% in 1986 . |
| 10 | Now she had arrived in East Africa only to find the same grim process being repeated — but with one significant difference . |
| 11 | The mixture of adulation and censure with which seamen were regarded continued to provide the same rich harvest for the sentimental and the censorious . |
| 12 | At the top end there are the programs that seek to reproduce the environment found within a traditional art studio ; PageMaker , XPress and the now defunct Harvard Professional Publisher most closely fit this category , while products such as Ventura seek to provide the same typographic quality through a stylesheet and coded tags so appealing to the business user who needs an easily produced document which follows a common format . |
| 13 | On the other hand , it can be validly argued that it would be asking too much from a private entity to provide the same public notice that public registries have provided . |
| 14 | It is but a short step to relate the same topographical analysis to village plans and to suggest , from their regularity and consistency , that they may also have been planned . |
| 15 | Firstly , as you perceive your old fears welling up within you , as you try to tackle the same old problem and are paralysed by the thought of failure , look at the screen of your mind . |
| 16 | At present , a council has to set the same standard charge for all unoccupied second homes . |
| 17 | The m-derived section is arranged to exhibit the same characteristic impedance and critical frequency or frequencies as the prototype . |
| 18 | He has also agreed , following the practice adopted in previous years and as specifically requested by the employers and the teachers ' unions , to consult the same interested parties on the details of the draft pay document giving effect to the Government 's recommendations . |
| 19 | To state the same single fact of connection in the world by way of a different conditional Statement , the contrapositive of the first , if the wipers did start to work , then the switch was flipped . |
| 20 | When he moved to inflict the same beautiful torture on the twin globe she cried out , drowning in a riot of sensation . |
| 21 | We can predict it simply from our reasoning that both the beetle genes and the bacterial genes will take whatever steps lie in their power to engineer the same future events — events favourable to the propagation of beetle eggs . |
| 22 | However , it had not been realised that we process speech as much by our expectations as by our sensations : it is easy for us to hear the same acoustic signal as ‘ It 's easy to recognise speech ’ or ‘ It 's easy to wreck a nice beach ’ according to context . |
| 23 | The star would , however , continue to exert the same gravitational force on the spaceship , which would continue to orbit the black hole . |
| 24 | The next time you will be much more on your guard to avoid the same interviewing fault . |
| 25 | What however he did seek to do , starting from about nineteen-hundred erm and ten , or nineteen-twelve , was to apply the same methodological procedures which he 'd applied in mathematics , to a range of philosophical problems . |
| 26 | Fortunately nobody was , and the Greenpeace boat returned in successive years to play the same dangerous game of cat and mouse on the ocean waves . |
| 27 | ‘ David gives us that little bit extra , though we wanted to play the same tight 4–4-2 formation . |
| 28 | Even in a system dominated by the class cleavage , there is no necessity for people on the same side of the cleavage living in different places to favour the same political party . |
| 29 | Perhaps it was asking too much of Oxford , who have not won a game for a month , to exercise the same shrewd control at half-back demonstrated by Farr-Jones and Porta . |
| 30 | He encouraged her to explore his body in turn , to use the same delicate , sensual curiosity he had shown her . |