Example sentences of "[verb] to the same [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Group directors and national directors were committed to the same goals .
2 Recognition that the members of organizations share group identities and have interests which may not coincide with others who are contributing to the same goals began with the Human Relations movement and its founder George Elton Mayo ( 1933 ) .
3 Secondly , the total amount of damages awarded are reduced by any amounts that the defendant is obliged to disgorge under a Commission disgorgement order relating to the same transaction(s) .
4 The requirement is equally complied with if he receives a document of title from his seller and then transfers to the innocent sub-purchaser a different document of title relating to the same goods , Mount v. Jay ( 1960 Q.B. ) .
5 It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people .
6 The plan is canonical , and the carved metopes confined to the same positions as those on the contemporary temple of Zeus at Olympia ( below , pp. 79ff. ) , within the colonnade , six above each porch , though only four survive relatively complete .
7 It referred to the same matters as the Financial Secretary had stated to the Committee and concluded :
8 It seemed louder , more raucous than usual , and she sighed at the prospect of another evening spent listening to the same arguments and bitter reproaches .
9 The questions in the checklist are related to the same concepts as in the full SCAN event-by-event analysis , but the pace is more relaxed ( see 6A and 6E ) .
10 Formerly the domicile of a wife was necessarily the same as that of her husband , but under the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 the wife 's dependent domicile was abolished : now her domicile is determined according to the same rules as for a single person .
11 To give you useful comparisons , every machine is tested according to the same criteria :
12 To give you useful comparisons , every machine is tested according to the same criteria :
13 Reappraisal of Planning Permission — all existing permissions should be reassessed according to the same criteria as above , and authorities would have the power to rescind or modify them .
14 Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination .
15 He wanted his prose to be objective , scientific , devoid of personal presence , devoid of opinions ; so he decided that poetry ought to be written according to the same principles .
16 Skinner ( 1948 ) states that " verbal behaviour is emitted behaviour which is reinforced by a listener and develops according to the same principles as other operant behaviour .
17 On the other hand , it did not necessarily contradict the public service principles , especially as the new Act of Parliament obliged ITV to ‘ inform , educate and entertain' according to the same standards .
18 In 1958 , according to the same calculations , the Soviet Union influenced 31 per cent of the world 's population and 9 per cent of the world 's GNP ( excluding the USSR itself ) ; by 1979 the USSR influenced only 6 per cent of the world 's population and only 5 per cent of the world 's GNP , again excluding the USSR itself .
19 The Times , more restrained , came to the same conclusions : ‘ To most sensible , rational people , a verdict which depends on the evidence of a man like Mathews , in the circumstances in which he gave that evidence , can not be safe . ’
20 Though they crunch the same numbers and speak to the same executives , the agencies ' analysts have reached markedly different conclusions .
21 The antiprotons would follow the same path through the magnets — but in the opposite direction to the protons — and would be accelerated to the same energies .
22 Having to repeat things constantly , as well as to listen to the same comments over and over again , can tax the patience of all but a saint .
23 The terms ‘ old age ’ and ‘ retirement ’ are often used interchangeably , but they do not necessarily refer to the same things .
24 The vertical ramp will be made to the same dimensions as Southsea 's , as long as they can come up with the money to make it .
25 No underhand tactics as then , everything out in the open , everyone operating to the same rules .
26 This occurred , he believed , despite the household 's ‘ sufficiency of income ’ and therefore could not be attributed to the same causes as ‘ primary poverty ’ .
27 So we 're looking for North Yorkshire to play to the same rules basically .
28 Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you .
29 No , no , it does n't work to the same standards does it ?
30 Linking girls in with the characters of Lord of the Flies , I am sure that there would be many Ralphs , a Jack of a different nature but leading to the same results , and eventually one or two Rogers .
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