Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 For example , it is a recognized fact that a child who has been regularly beaten by one or both of his parents is extremely likely to inflict the same violence on his own children .
2 The DAF workers are less likely to attract the same sort of gritty sympathy that the miners have done .
3 Actuaries often break down populations for analysis by sex so it is only fair to apply the same process to ourselves .
4 Despite this application of man power , it was not possible to achieve the same rate of progress as had been made in the Lowlands .
5 We 're not likely to make the same mistakes again .
6 Branson was not able to inspire the same sense of esprit de corps among the hastily assembled team of Event journalists as he had always done among the staff at Virgin , and the magazine quickly became rife with internecine dispute and conspiracy theories .
7 Almost simultaneously de Gasperi died ; his successors were not able to stamp the same authority on Italian foreign policy .
8 And I am told that it is not advisable to use the same batch of acid for etching copper as has been used for etching zinc because the deposits of two metals in the acid creates erm an unpleasant , noxious , possibly poisonous gas and I do n't know what that would do .
9 The committee has accused the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) of failing to impose adequate regulations on the bottled water industry , which at present is not obliged to maintain the same standards as the public water supply .
10 Consequently , any measure which seeks to strengthen central influence on the curriculum and to weaken teachers ' autonomy in curriculum matters is still likely to evince the same suspicion and hostility with which teachers responded to ‘ payment by results ’ .
11 Parents who themselves behave in a responsible way towards their children , making it a habit to keep them informed of their whereabouts and accounting for their own actions , are more likely to receive the same consideration in return .
12 Thirdly , the debates over how far to forge a strategy either for winning power or for promoting economic development in a post-revolutionary society have not been satisfactorily resolved , and indeed perhaps can not be , given that counter-revolutionary response to any successful formula will ensure that it will be that much more difficult to apply the same tactics in another situation .
13 On the other hand , it may be more efficient to make the same investment to acquire additional taxable profits to absorb the ACT .
14 EC grain traders say consumption is unlikely to rise , and the amount sold on the export market is also likely to remain the same .
15 The management team is also likely to remain the same .
16 In order to comply with Community law , it was now necessary to agree the same date of retirement for both sexes .
17 He says he is equally willing to do the same for any other operating system .
18 They are n't likely to wear the same garment for six years , as Granny might do !
19 It is indeed possible to say the same about the social world ; but it is also possible to deny it .
20 Many horses may do one thing , but others will do something quite different to express the same emotion .
21 The difficulty is that we are quite likely to pick the same herd twice and if that were to happen we would have to sample it twice .
22 Dawn was then able to continue the same line of treatment with the physiotherapist locally .
23 She is then able to cover the same ground , using the objectives set by the ward .
24 As he put it , ‘ not until the habits of the rich are changed and they are again content to breathe the same air and walk the same streets as the poor will East London be ‘ saved ’ .
25 However , I feel that there is one line which virtually sums Mycetes up , and that is when he says : ‘ Yet insufficient to express the same ’ .
26 The French and Arabic translators of the above extract are therefore able to follow the same method of thematic development by placing the temporal adjuncts in theme position .
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