Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] the same " in BNC.

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1 In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated .
2 The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents .
3 These designs involve slipping the same needle for between two and four rows .
4 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 .
5 One of the sad things about history is that nations keep making the same mistakes .
6 There is some repetition as the authors backtrack to report the same developments from different points of view and new characters are introduced ; the detailed mathematical discussions do become daunting for the non-specialist reader .
7 For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) .
8 The Pilot Survey showed some monitoring , further standardisation of the equipment was essential , mainly though , I 'm going to make sure all schools have got the same pipes and connector and I 'm going to give them some solutions to test because there was a bit of variation between schools , and there will be variation geographically , so I want to be able to have a measure of any error that will be involved as well .
9 The so-called modern values bring about a convergence of culture through improved mass communications , the elites of Third World countries come to share the same culture as those in the industrialised world .
10 Many people confronted with a crash have done the same thing .
11 And the tame descendants have kept the same views on this matter .
12 Given the fundamental importance of demography for any assessment of a pre-industrial economy , it is not surprising that economic historians have pressed the surveys into service ( historians of medieval England have done the same sort of thing with Domesday Book ) as sources of demographic data .
13 Notice that throughout the 1980s , the objectives of the MTFS have remained the same : that is , to control inflation , to reduce the government 's budget deficit and to lay down the foundation for sustainable economic growth .
14 But with the other companies that have been established , and all water companies have done the same , the way to increase profits is to go into er a business which you 're in competition with other businesses and you stand or fail as to how well you do on that .
15 By comparable mechanisms , an animal ( or human ) will find a task easier to learn if others of the same type have learned the same task before .
16 So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner .
17 Adjectives seem to need the same rule , to produce stress patterns such
18 It can only be hoped that the newly aggressive financial players of the Thatcher era manage to avoid the same errors .
19 Wild animals tend to hide away when they fall ill or are injured , and those in captivity try to do the same , but it 's almost impossible for them .
20 But , I mean Rover have done the same I know for a fact that Rover have done the same to some of their blokes ,
21 But , I mean Rover have done the same I know for a fact that Rover have done the same to some of their blokes ,
22 Composers have followed the same pattern . )
23 The trouble is that many other firms want to do the same , so the profits of the business will probably be lower by then .
24 But both firms happen to have the same dividends and the same share price , so that the net and gross dividend yields are the same at 5.31 and 7.08 per cent respectively .
25 Most importantly , the people who will have to implement the community care reforms seem to share the same vision and , despite certain reservations , the same enthusiasm .
26 Charts of asking questions , if people come to you and ask questions keep referring the same things similar things to you all the time .
27 Kate and Diane have booked the same venue with its easy access just minutes off the M5 motorway and superb views across the Somerset countryside .
28 Latvia , Lithuania and now Kirgizstan have done the same .
29 Later writers have voiced the same view .
30 W. Lancaster 's 13/0 stainless steel cutlery : some customers have used the same set for 20 years
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