Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some of the work auditory sequences are presented to investigate the question of whether auditory and visual temporal patterns mean the same thing to the infant . |
| 2 | ‘ Compulsive spenders suffer the same urge to go on a binge as compulsive drinkers , eaters or non-eaters , ’ declares Dr Christopher Cook of London 's Middlesex Hospital Psychiatry Unit . |
| 3 | As both the active and the passive sentence mean the same thing , it is reasonable to ask why we need both . |
| 4 | His later artistic inventions display the same fascination with the possibilities of getting inside the skin of another era . |
| 5 | Flagstad gave the songs their première , so it 's intriguing to hear her successor bring the same kind of broad sweep , sincerity of purpose and rewarding breath-control to them . |
| 6 | The following graphs suggest the same behaviour as for the intensity — roughly linear over an interval , possibly a power or exponential . |
| 7 | Both strategies involve the same cost and have the same risk ( resulting from the unknown value of the cash index at the end of the year ) . |
| 8 | So for many of us , our preferences in particular cases pose the same puzzle as our more comprehensive rejection of the checkerboard solution as a general strategy for resolving differences over principle . |
| 9 | South Korea has committed $5 billion over ten years to investing in new technologies , Ward reminded his audience , and Singapore and Taiwan attach the same importance to staying at the cutting edge . |
| 10 | The two pictures show the same flow at different instants , at which respectively an ‘ eruption ’ and an ‘ inrush ’ were occurring . |
| 11 | Although Landsats 4 and 5 have a lower orbital altitude ( 705 km ) than Landsats 1–3 , their orbits cover the same proportion of the Earth 's surface — that between 82°N and S latitude . |
| 12 | And in their relations with each other , Libyans show the same rejectionist spirit : the taunt , ‘ We killed Pasha Naiz ’ , means that Magharba were irremediably tainted by their submission to Turkish government ; Zuwaya had been , and continued to be , irreconcilable . |
| 13 | Even in some cases where two or three of the Evangelists record the same event , their accounts differ considerably ( for example , the resurrection narratives ) . |
| 14 | I do n't think modern drivers get the same sense of fun as we had . |
| 15 | ‘ That is how my mother said it was and the history books tell the same story . |
| 16 | Mark needed a chance to realize that his parents understood how he felt and that lots of other older brothers feel the same way towards their young sisters . |
| 17 | I feel that the water company should do something constructive to solve the problem they have engineered , and perhaps other readers feel the same way as we do . |
| 18 | Obviously a given thickness of sediment could not simply by weight produce the same amount of subsidence of a much denser crust . |
| 19 | Many readers ask the same question , and the fact is you DO have to pay the correct price for goods , even if the shop has mistakenly put a lower price on the label . |
| 20 | Take the component case : suppose both cars use the same gearbox , purchased from an outside source . |
| 21 | As in the Hare mosaic , the outer frame of the pavement and the interlaced squares share the same kind of decoration ( simple guilloche ) . |
| 22 | Successive summonses bear the same number and date as the original and are deemed to be a continuance of the original fixed date summons ( Ord 7 , r 19(3) ) . |
| 23 | This list was compiled into a discrimination tree in which , working from left to right , phonemic entries with identical phoneme sequences share the same branch . |
| 24 | Although in some instances the sex/style differences are very slight , they are quite consistent in that they usually tend in the same direction , much as Labov ( 1966 : 7 ) found for social class and style : ‘ Native New Yorkers differ in their usage in terms of absolute values of the variables , but the shifts between contrasting styles follow the same pattern in almost every case . ’ |
| 25 | Political parties retain the same name over long periods , implying sameness of identity . |
| 26 | Since all the schools follow the same teaching plan and since the content of the programme followed by children in the early years is less demanding academically than that followed by adolescents , it is easy to argue that teachers in the lower grades require less training . |
| 27 | Computers follow the same strategy that General Grant followed against the South : do nothing fancy , stay out of trouble , take no risks and just grind the opponent bit by bit , piece by piece and square by square , into the dust . |
| 28 | It is sometimes easier to hear that two words have the same pattern . |
| 29 | This occurs when two words have the same vowel sounds in conjunction with different consonantal sounds : A stitch in time saves nine . |
| 30 | Both elements of the total rent have the same VAT treatment . |