Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I was defending a monarchy that had in the past seen some unsuitable sovereigns , while he somewhat deftly applied the same argument to unsatisfactory prime ministers . |
| 2 | Trams and buses henceforward shared the same Body and Paint shops , while a new Fitting shop was created in an adjacent building fronting on to the Coliseum . |
| 3 | You only got the same amount of money end of the week . |
| 4 | ‘ On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should . |
| 5 | On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should |
| 6 | Looking around for his wingman , who had lost him in the manoeuvre and headed for base , he saw another Messerschmitt about to attack him , so repeated the same trick . |
| 7 | Who all chose the same colour . |
| 8 | He obviously felt the same way , too , as we suddenly flung our arms around each other — we have n't stopped hugging since ! ’ |
| 9 | Indeed , his account of their interests gives the impression — and perhaps gave the same impression to Lanfranc — that they were a lot of old gossips chattering about wonders and miracles and gifts of relics , when they should have been engaged on more serious religious observances , or on the studies laid down in the Rule . |
| 10 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 11 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 12 | The recruitment of migrant labour has also had what one might refer to as a series of indirect benefits , especially in the earlier phase of immigration , because Britain and the other importing countries were able to avoid the costs involved in actually producing the immigrant labour power , from the birth to the maturation of the workers concerned , and because of the lower demands on the welfare state of economically active , healthy , single , young men and women who nevertheless paid the same rate of taxation as other workers ( Gorz , 1970 ) . |
| 13 | The Scots thus faced the same challenge that Edward II had faced in 1314 , and the outcome was the same . |
| 14 | Ho separately reached the same conclusion . |
| 15 | Even so , that wave of philanthropically inspired work among boys and girls which began in the 1880s had exhausted itself a decade or more later , and despite the opening of new clubs and the formation of the Scouts , youth work no longer inspired the same missionary zeal . |
| 16 | Time no longer had the same meaning down in the basement of the TV company , windowless and illuminated only by artificial light . |
| 17 | The gang always used the same procedure when they wanted to make contact . |
| 18 | At home , whenever I visited , he always seemed the same docile , attractive child sitting silently watching TV in the impeccably tidy and attractive furnished living room of the very small , terraced house . |
| 19 | I have always had reasonable live-in accommodation ( having inspected it before accepting a position ) and , although on certain days I have worked non-stop , on others I have been very quiet and still received the same salary . |
| 20 | Nana always chose the same place to sit in the congregation . |
| 21 | Ruth loved him as much as ever , and hoped against hope that he still felt the same way about her , but somehow , something had been lost . |
| 22 | Navigation by the sun and stars almost always took the same course as the tyre-tracks . |
| 23 | He was hardly ever gloomy , but when he was , it always took the same form . |
| 24 | She always wore the same coat , to feed the hens , to go out , to go to church even . |
| 25 | If we could do this for a number of stars in the same galaxy , and our calculations always gave the same distance , we could be fairly confident of our estimate . |
| 26 | The female detective always gave the same answer . |
| 27 | He always drank the same brand . |
| 28 | egalitarianism and that how that increased production was seen as the you know , priority , and so perhaps they would want to just I mean it might seem appear that they were changing their policy to a more moderate land reform but this was not an end in itself it was a means to an end in order to increase production which would benefit the population as a whole , so it 's , they still had the same goal |
| 29 | The masthead still carried the same title , meaning ‘ People 's Freedom ’ but the phrase ‘ Workers of the world unite ’ had been dropped . |
| 30 | It always had the same objective , its range was accurate , it never varied laterally or went beyond or fell short of the mark … |