Example sentences of "[verb] [art] same [noun] [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 A simple reason why the younger activists are not seen as often on the picket line as their elders were , is that they are too busy pursuing the same goals by other means .
5 ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years !
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Both LEEL , which put up £75,000 , and the region , are understood to hold deep reservations about maintaining the same level of support .
13 Always to wear the same expression on one 's face whether one is going in or coming out ? ’
14 They are n't likely to wear the same garment for six years , as Granny might do !
15 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 .
16 Slim people generally eat the same kinds of food that fatter people like to eat .
17 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 .
18 He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland .
19 Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited .
20 It is time we applied the same reasoning to all .
21 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 .
22 This does not mean that we all display the same feelings about God or become the same temperamental type .
23 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 .
24 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 ?
25 His later artistic inventions display the same fascination with the possibilities of getting inside the skin of another era .
26 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 ’ .
27 They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism .
28 She was a fine person and he knew they related to each other , shared the same sense of humour .
29 Classes did not exist since all members of society shared the same relationship to the means of production .
30 Both were just 23 and shared the same love of horses , fresh air and country pursuits .
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