Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] the same [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feminists assume , for instance , that observational and interview methods mean the same to all women . |
| 2 | His achievements to date were listed : charges laid on the railway in the Tobruk area on the night of 14 October ; a failed attempt to do the same near Sidi Barani which resulted in the death of the patrol commander , Lieutenant Shorten ; two further breaks in the railway on 24 October ; nine breaks on 29 October , and finally another attack on the track on 31 October . |
| 3 | However , the discovery that the speed of light appeared the same to every observer , no matter how he was moving , led to the theory of relativity — and in that one had to abandon the idea that there was a unique absolute time . |
| 4 | ( The same critic said the same of Little Big Man . ) |
| 5 | If traditional metaphor brings together two semantic fields by means of a similarity of signifieds , then the pun does the same by virtue of a homonymy or similarity of signifiers . |
| 6 | Graeme Souness said that Bruce Grobbelaar is the best sweeper , but Don Howe says the same about me . |
| 7 | The assumption that the universe looks the same in every direction is clearly not true in reality . |
| 8 | They respond to changes in gate potential , not absolute levels — switching between 0 and 3V looks the same to an igfet as switching between — 3 and 0V . |
| 9 | ‘ We have a big interest in Russia and Russia has the same in Lithuania — they need access to the Baltic and to ( the Russian enclave of ) Kaliningrad , ’ he said after casting his vote on Sunday . |
| 10 | I recall some of the chaps doing the same at Oundle . ’ |
| 11 | We believe it only on grounds of modesty : it would be most remarkable if the universe looked the same in every direction around us , but not around other points in the universe ! |
| 12 | The Egyptian magicians did the same through their secret arts . |
| 13 | With a flat-rate charge , each household pays the same for its water , whatever its size . |
| 14 | When England did the same in 1752 we lost 11 days . |
| 15 | Nick Polkinhorne ( using less sophisticated software than Mr Ferris : an overhead projector ) offered a demonstration of how to use TeleOrdering ; Kevin Allard did the same with First Edition , the EDI service for the book trade set up last year by Book Data and Vista . |
| 16 | Superstars in search of role models ; Bette Midler is developing a biography of Berlin chanteuse and Kurt Weill wife/collaborator Lotte Lenya , Barbra Streisand does the same for pioneer Time photographer Margaret Bourke-White , and one-time Billie Holliday Diana Ross produces and stars in one of three current versions of Naked At The Feast , '20s Folies Bergere legend Josephine Baker 's biography . |
| 17 | Gedge has standing orders with Greenpeace and the Anti-Apartheid Movement and Solowka has the same with the African National Congress and Oxfam . |
| 18 | What must be hurting him today is that others did not have the courage to do the same to him . |
| 19 | It is our aim to do the same on the draft treaty on political union . |
| 20 | The first culprit had been Paul Azinger an hour or so before but his slip had gone unpunished when Seve Ballesteros did the same with his approach to the green . |
| 21 | ‘ I babysit for them about once a fortnight while Graham stays at home with our own children , and she or her husband do the same for us , ’ explains Sally . |
| 22 | British actors Glen Murphy , Sean Blowers and Richard Walsh did the same for London 's Burning . |
| 23 | As everyone feasted themselves Mum went round with the drink , pouring out gin and whisky or stout as they preferred , making sure to test them all as she did so , while Dad and Fred did the same with the ale . |
| 24 | Smaller animals on the grasslands prefer to hide away when they are not feeding ; so the prairie dogs , which are rodents , live in vast , colonial underground burrows in North America ( with burrowing owls for occasional company ) , and the sousliks do the same in Asia . |
| 25 | Thomas fitzBernard as Chief Justice of the Forest heard Forest pleas in twenty-nine counties between 1178 and 1180 , and his successor Geoffrey fitzPeter did the same between 1184 and 1185 . |
| 26 | Thus Moses passes on the Spirit of the Lord to Joshua ( Deut. 34:9 ) and Elijah does the same to Elisha ( 2 Kgs. 2:9,10,15 ) . |
| 27 | In the presence of calmodulin , its K m increased to 33μM , but its Hill coefficient remained the same at 3.8 . |
| 28 | Only a noise directly ahead at eye level sounds the same to both ears . |
| 29 | Basically this involves using the right foot to draw the ball into the post from the left side of the field and the left foot to do the same from the right side . |
| 30 | Silent Scream attempts to do the same for Larry Winters , a Glaswegian murderer who waxed poetic behind bars before topping himself . |