Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( Note , though , that once prices have risen , people will need more money to conduct the same amount of transactions . )
2 Waited 2 ½ hours to see the same official .
3 This will give people the opportunity to see the same actors play three different parts , and it will give me that essential ingredient of a good farce : strong ensemble acting . ’
4 I suppose it 's too much to expect a senior Queen 's Counsel to work the same hours as ordinary folk , ’ Bragg said grumpily .
5 Yesterday Sudbury chairman Iain Hook said the club 's case was based on the fact the division four clubs had a greater need for support as a result of their geographical locations and inability to attract the same amount of outside backing as top clubs .
6 Both the phosphorylation of receptors and their absence means that it takes more of the drug to obtain the same effect .
7 more money to provide the same level of service .
8 It is for schools to embrace the same approach for disruptive pupils .
9 This enables organizations to continue the same system with salary increases , titles , superior offices and furnishings , cars , expense allowances , stock options , etc. , which are , after all , only more sophisticated examples of the process which began with the child 's first jellybean .
10 Manufacturers do n't want computers to suffer the same fate as educational TV — a lot of promise but precious little worthwhile application .
11 Where two tractors are of equal power , the heavier will probably need to be in a lower gear to pull the same weight .
12 The question before me today is whether Parliament , in using similar language in section 265 , intended those words to bear the same meaning as those given to them by the House of Lords under the Act of 1914 .
13 ( make ) Both in the same script : the difference in the attempt to spell the same word indicates fairly clearly a weak visual memory .
14 Promotional activity stresses safety , speed and comfort ( by direct comparison with the use of cars to cover the same type of journey ) , and the central location of termini ( compared with the relative isolation of airports ) .
15 The Japanese know only too well of the dangers that can be posed by Hong Kong 's ‘ expatriate ’ rugby community in their bid to tread the same path for the next World Cup .
16 He admires the work of the PFA and wants his association to win the same respect .
17 So anglers need larger weights to do the same job — which could distract the fish .
18 I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea .
19 The Cambridge based project forms the ‘ umbrella ’ to wider collaborative research in which several independently financed groups will work in other countries using a similar methodology to address the same issues .
20 Accell/SQL allows both Unix and Windows clients to share the same database , with Unix clients supporting Motif , Open Look , or just plain character interfaces , and the Windows version supports Microsoft Corp 's Dynamic Data Exchange mechanism for applications integration .
21 Thus , he claims IBM 's act of tearing up its price list was a purely symbolic gesture , simply an attempt to keep the same situation going .
22 I think members of our beleaguered police force would be thrilled if they could find seven parties to witness the same event . ’
23 Other researchers have used different labels to describe the same distinction , for example , control , manoeuvring and strategical levels ( e.g. Janssen , 1979 ; Verwey , 1990 ) .
24 Scientists have been holding a one-day strike in an attempt to get the same pay as their European colleagues .
25 MP Kevin McNamara wants wild animals to have the same protection as domestic pets but pro-hunters say if the sport 's outlawed it will affect rural jobs and the conservation of the countryside.LLewela Bailey reports .
26 As we shall see , the attempt to employ the same concepts to describe quite different tasks was a common phenomenon among young nationalists .
27 When Alison had pushed him he 'd started to gather the momentum to ask the same questions that were obsessing Forester — apparently not the reaction she 'd expected , judging from the way that she seemed to have slammed the lid back on the mixture before it could boil over .
28 However welcome Bourdieu 's analysis of consumers may be when contrasted to the more common attempt to explain the same material as a simple expression of business interests , the book 's impact is not enhanced by its entirely ignoring the sphere of production .
29 A more adventurous statesman , or one less determined to hang on to power , might have acted more quickly or taken more radical steps to achieve the same goal .
30 Do all parties use the same words to mean the same thing ( eg do management accounts include a balance sheet or cash flow statement ) ?
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