Example sentences of "[verb] [art] same [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Six weeks before the October general election , figures in mid-September showed that inflation had dropped sharply in August , rising only 0.2 per cent , while unemployment had fallen the same month to 16.6 per cent of the active workforce , the lowest level since 1982 . |
2 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
3 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
4 | ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year . |
5 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
8 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
9 | If you lose the same amount of money for a second year you 're down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency . |
10 | There is also an upgrade to the SuperSparc ( Viking ) chip for the Sparcserver 600MP Series of multiprocessing servers , doubling the performance ceiling of these systems while maintaining the same range of price points . |
11 | Both LEEL , which put up £75,000 , and the region , are understood to hold deep reservations about maintaining the same level of support . |
12 | Always to wear the same expression on one 's face whether one is going in or coming out ? ’ |
13 | They are n't likely to wear the same garment for six years , as Granny might do ! |
14 | Japanese plans to build an international airport on the Shiraho reef have been abandoned — in favour of building the same airport on the next reef along . |
15 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
16 | He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland . |
17 | Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited . |
18 | It is time we applied the same reasoning to all . |
19 | I suppose I was defending a monarchy that had in the past seen some unsuitable sovereigns , while he somewhat deftly applied the same argument to unsatisfactory prime ministers . |
20 | This section is concerned with the introduction and application of certain particularly useful types of equivalent circuit that display the same form of linear small-signal response as any nonlinear four-terminal network . |
21 | Anyway , what about Sam , who takes the Ring but hands it back with only momentary delay , Pippin and Merry , who show no desire for it at all , Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli , who display the same indifference without the excuse of ignorance , and Boromir 's brother Faramir , who realises the Ring is in his power but refuses to take it , with no more sign of mental turmoil than a ‘ strange smile ’ and a glint in the eye ? |
22 | His later artistic inventions display the same fascination with the possibilities of getting inside the skin of another era . |
23 | From Los Angeles came a report of a film theatre that shared the same building with an undertaker and where the hall itself was squalid and narrow with grease spots on the wall where ‘ delighted spectators have leaned their enraptured heads ’ . |
24 | They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism . |
25 | She was a fine person and he knew they related to each other , shared the same sense of humour . |
26 | Classes did not exist since all members of society shared the same relationship to the means of production . |
27 | Both were just 23 and shared the same love of horses , fresh air and country pursuits . |
28 | He and Richard clearly shared the same view of an overlord 's feudal rights . |
29 | He reached the milestone in just under three years — but his 109 matches were five more than it took Lewis Jones , of Leeds , to hit the same target in the 1950s . |
30 | If Vanilla Ice spouted the same sort of shit they did he 'd be pilloried . |