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

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1 A proportionate tax distributes these burdens as a ratio of income : each taxpayer contributes the same proportion of income in tax .
2 Carbon dioxide generation for the Tertiary coals follows the same trend as that for the Palaeozoic coals , though the yield is only about half .
3 GTE Corp 's GTE Telecommunication Services and Digital Equipment Corp have joined forces to develop the CloneDetector , a knowledge-based system to reduce clone fraud in the cellular industry : the system will automatically detect simultaneous calls using the same cellular telephone number but originating from multiple locations , or calls originating outside the normal geographic area used for a particular cellular telephone ; it will build a case for each instance of fraudulent use , prioritise the cases , and recommend the actions to be taken .
4 A number of Labour authorities did the same , believing it could help them plan service development more effectively .
5 It does not follow that Parliament had the same intention when , whatever criteria are adopted , all spaces in the school will be filled in any event .
6 What would happen if other advanced nations did the same ?
7 The fact that both these forms of aphasia are frequently observed suggests that there are separate systems for perceiving and producing speech ; and we have already seen in Chapter 6 that research on normal subjects suggests the same conclusion .
8 Whether the issue is education or health , pollution or overseas aid , one sees the same mishmash of self-righteous resentment , sentimentality and wishful thinking providing the same simple answers to every problem , without the slightest reference to the real world .
9 Both elements of the total rent have the same VAT treatment .
10 Where two tractors are of equal power , the heavier will probably need to be in a lower gear to pull the same weight .
11 Since the nucleus of each cell contains the same genetic information , it is the reciprocal communication between nucleus and cytoplasm during development that determines which proteins are made .
12 This results from the nature of the elongation conditions which ensures that each transcript contains the same amount of radiolabel incorporated into the nascent RNA during initiation of the ternary transcription complex , and no further label is incorporated during the elongation phase .
13 The drug distamycin-A is known to bind in the minor groove of d(A-T) rich sequences using the same hydrogen bond acceptor sites ( O -2 and N -3 ) as water , although other stabilising effects including electrostatic and van der Waals interactions are also important ( 18 ) .
14 How many pears can I buy for £1.08 if 70 almonds cost the same as 50 chestnuts , 48 chestnuts cost the same as one pomegranate , 18 pomegranates cost the same as 28 lemons , 10 lemons cost the same as 25 pears , and 108 almonds cost 9p ?
15 His achievements to date were listed : charges laid on the railway in the Tobruk area on the night of 14 October ; a failed attempt to do the same near Sidi Barani which resulted in the death of the patrol commander , Lieutenant Shorten ; two further breaks in the railway on 24 October ; nine breaks on 29 October , and finally another attack on the track on 31 October .
16 Political parties retain the same name over long periods , implying sameness of identity .
17 Another response suggested the same limit : '70 — this allows recently retired people to use their experience but after this age their experience becomes dated . ’
18 Compulsive spenders suffer the same urge to go on a binge as compulsive drinkers , eaters or non-eaters , ’ declares Dr Christopher Cook of London 's Middlesex Hospital Psychiatry Unit .
19 She sweetly punctuated every pause with ‘ Actually , we have had quite a few calls saying the same thing , ’ and ‘ Actually , I must say , I do rather agree with you . ’
20 Nonetheless , very considerable experience of using groups for this kind of research shows that they do tend to produce very consistent results , even where different researchers cover the same problem .
21 It is a good idea to practise this technique using the same piece of music each time and the length of one side of a cassette or record ( usually about twenty minutes ) is just about right for this exercise .
22 The decision to drop the case against him was made by Director of Public Prosecutions Barbara Mills , after the collapse of another trial involving the same company , Plasser Railway Machinery .
23 However , this category shows the same statistical occurrence as ‘ cusp ’ ( with electron energy flux exceeding 6x10eVcm r-2 s r-1 sr r-1 ) ( ref. 12 ) .
24 Can I reiterate what he he actually said in a meeting with Calum er Carole Degucht er last year er he said I do y the honourable , my honourable friend said I do not see that uniformity means adopting a system of proportional representation and I 've yet to see a good case as to the merits of different states adopting the same procedure .
25 Such communities may tolerate a wide range of different forms to express the same item .
26 R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities .
27 These Lasius fuliginosus are walking along two experimental trails : the bottom trail has constant concentration ; the concentration of the top trail starts the same as the bottom one but gradually decreases .
28 Other researchers have used different labels to describe the same distinction , for example , control , manoeuvring and strategical levels ( e.g. Janssen , 1979 ; Verwey , 1990 ) .
29 The fact that a growing proportion of diplomats were now laymen whose fluency in Latin was often limited helped to accelerate this process , as did the fact that different nations pronounced the same Latin words in markedly different ways ; but as the language of treaties , especially those which involved a large number of states or in which the German states were concerned , Latin survived longer than as the language of negotiation .
30 Although in some instances the sex/style differences are very slight , they are quite consistent in that they usually tend in the same direction , much as Labov ( 1966 : 7 ) found for social class and style : ‘ Native New Yorkers differ in their usage in terms of absolute values of the variables , but the shifts between contrasting styles follow the same pattern in almost every case . ’
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