Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [to-vb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 2 | The beautiful eyes seemed to have the same dark depths as those of her brother but they did not have his sharp , probing gaze . |
| 3 | Utilisation can be twice as high and produces a double benefit : ( i ) lower costs per hour , and ( ii ) fewer aircraft needed to service the same sales volume . |
| 4 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 5 | I had suggested all cars would inevitably look the same , as rival designers struggled to meet the same constraints dictated by safety requirements and ever-better fuel economy . |
| 6 | This study aimed to use the same methods to examine anorectal function in 23 patients with complete supraconal spinal cord lesions and to determinate the relationship between the site of the lesion and the existence of inconsistent phenomena . |
| 7 | Whereas European countries tended to acquire public ownership of the assets of natural monopolies , the United States preferred to handle the same problems through public regulation of industries whose assets were left in private ownership . |
| 8 | Although many London pubs seemed to look the same when he first walked in , Dexter enjoyed collating the differences that set one apart from another . |
| 9 | Sukarno hoped to employ the same techniques as had broken Dutch resistance in New Guinea . |
| 10 | Ironically , Clough 's own kid Nigel had to undergo the same perpetual ultra-critical appraisal of his skills before the Forest manager would accept the striker as a player first and a member of the family second . |
| 11 | The bachelor wanted to ask the same question , but he said nothing . |
| 12 | A similar conclusion was reached by Gruenberg ( 1977 ) from a population study in Sweden , although further analysis of the same population failed to reach the same conclusion ( Rorsman et al . |
| 13 | He had already become dependent on Richard Arkwright [ q.v. ] for funds ( a loan of £10,000 in 1788 ) but the prosperity of muslins now evaporated , while Oldknow failed to achieve the same mastery of technical perfection in fine-cotton spinning . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles . |
| 16 | The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles . |
| 17 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 18 | The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God . |
| 19 | Dr Tim Bishop , for the ICRF in Leeds , added : ‘ We looked at dozens of case studies , from as far apart as America , Holland , Iceland , Germany , France , Sweden and the UK — in fact , almost all the known families with chromosome 17 linkage data and we were amazed to see that all of the families seemed to have the same genetic defect . ’ |
| 20 | In itself this was not so radical a departure from polling methods , and soon Gallup and other agencies began to adopt the same methods . |
| 21 | However , the classical writers tended to transfer the same principles of adjustment from the microeconomic to the macroeconomic plane , though their applicability at this level of aggregation is altogether more problematical , as Keynes was to point out . |
| 22 | Later on , positivists attempted to do the same by postulating a view of humans as determined in their actions by forces beyond their control . |
| 23 | However the front end of the Ballymena triple failed to produce the same consistency in the second half of the game , otherwise it may well have been a different story . |
| 24 | And yet Miles appeared to have the same complement of arms and legs as he did , the same disposition of eyes , nose and mouth . |
| 25 | Polgar resolved to do the same , although for years it resulted in severe poverty . |
| 26 | They , indeed , were the first animals to master flight and they did so some two hundred million years before birds managed to do the same thing . |
| 27 | The Brasserie was launched as a fully fledged operation expected to do the same level of business as L'Auberge from the start . |
| 28 | Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided . |
| 29 | In its turn , the government rejected FMLN accusations that it was misleading national and international opinion into believing that the Treasury Police and National Guard had been disbanded when , according to the guerrillas , these forces continued to occupy the same installations , with the same structures and weapons but wearing a different uniform . |
| 30 | As the war proceeded , Iraq attempted to do the same to Iran 's terminals and bring Iranian exports to a halt . |