Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all intend to continue the same sort of programme for the next couple of years and I have said I would like to call in next term and on a periodic basis until our responsibility ceases . |
| 2 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 3 | The years 1961 – 63 were undoubtedly one of the peaks in the special relationship , and the successors of Kennedy and Macmillan in the 1960s failed to establish the same rapport . |
| 4 | Section 20(1) ( iv ) was the model for the definition of theft and ‘ appropriate ’ was intended to bear the same meaning . |
| 5 | Yasmin 's brother brought her to London from their home in Bradford for the day , but meeting at the tube station proved nearly impossible , as we each had only a telephone description of the other and had unfortunately arranged to meet the same Saturday as a huge poll tax march . |
| 6 | However , Hirsch and Leff 's attempt to replicate this study , also reported in their book ( 1975 ) , failed to find the same degree of gross communication disorder as that claimed by Singer and Wynne . |
| 7 | However , evidence of different structures in other programs designed to perform the same function would assist the plaintiff who argued that the structure of his program was protectable expression and not unprotectable idea . |
| 8 | There are many and varied versions of the link-leger designed to combat the same problem . |
| 9 | ‘ Still , I have seven mediums who appear to see the same thing , with variations , of course — seven people will always see an event differently . |
| 10 | With a traditional spreadsheet , if you 've got 5,000 product types , and you want to perform the same calculation on each — for instance subtract the costs from the sale price — you have to duplicate the formula 5,000 times . |
| 11 | Somehow local authorities are expected to perform the same range of duties more cheaply . |
| 12 | and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase . |
| 13 | I want to catch the same train out you see |
| 14 | Those who broke into the inn tonight want to find the same treasure . |
| 15 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 16 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 17 | It occurred to National Certificate staff that instead of programming say twenty subject assessors to different centres all over the country on a particular day , all twenty could be programmed to visit the same centre on the same day . |
| 18 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |
| 19 | Then someone else wants to buy the same book — what do you do ? |
| 20 | Q. Blanket weed caused me tremendous problems in my Koi pond last summer , and I want to avoid the same thing happening this year . |
| 21 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
| 22 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 23 | who comes two years later when he has to do the same price again and it costs him money or her . |
| 24 | Lyn de Alwis now proposed to use the same technique to persuade captured wild elephants to walk quietly into the back of a truck . |
| 25 | And she wants to do the same things as us . |
| 26 | AutoDesk Inc 's multimedia revenues , which grew by 76% last year , are expected to duplicate the same success this year , president and chief executive Carol Bartz told the Hambrecht & Quist technology conference . |
| 27 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 28 | The Czechoslovak voucher scheme , which will apportion shares in state enterprises to the general public , was received with scepticism by the Poles ( who want to do the same thing a different way ) and with disdain by the Hungarians ( who think state enterprises should simply be sold ) . |
| 29 | You will then also need to drill the same contrast in all other positions in which it occurs . |
| 30 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |