Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it .
2 It would not be possible for the same midget ganglion cells to be optimized for both functions .
3 hence a larger sample is possible for the same expenditure
4 According to government figures in the first nine months of 1991 the number of immigrants of German origin ( Aussiedler ) fell to 166,786 from 337,394 for the same period of 1990 , but the number of asylum-seekers rose from 143,826 to 169,785 .
5 In spite of the decline in the number of average basic hours per week for manual workers from 46 in 1946 to 40 in 1970 , the number of average actual hours which include overtime , declined only by one hour from 47½ to 46½ during the same period .
6 The total was 109,373 compared with 101,107 for the same period last year , said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders .
7 This would require that for the same amount of light energy ( measured incident solar radiation has not varied by more than 0.5% since the beginning of the twentieth century ) more carbon is fixed per unit chlorophyll ( the quantum yield has changed ) .
8 Figure 7.3 illustrates this for the same capacitor as that in Figure 7.2 .
9 Figure 7.3 illustrates this for the same capacitor as that in Figure 7.2 .
10 While there are also a number of texts that claim to be fabliaux but which are not now considered to belong to the genre , the common characteristics of the type ( described below ) are sufficiently clear for the same number of texts again to be identified with and added to the self-proclaimed fabliaux .
11 s s several decades apart , had broken this about the same place you see .
12 When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there .
13 Chris Laidlaw , the All Black halfback , was another about the same time who , in fact , teamed with Mains ' brother Rick as the inside backs in an outstanding school team .
14 The shrew 's heart beats almost 1000 times a minute , while the elephant uses up only 30 during the same period .
15 At the same time , if two friends were running in opposition to one another for the same office , aid to one was sure to offend the other .
16 Economies of scope are likely to arise in ( i ) railways , between passenger and freight transport using the same lines and ( ii ) electricity generation , between peak and off-peak periods , some of the same equipment being used .
17 The 1920s in Europe , at least , had seen some of the same romanticism about leaving technically advanced civilization as occurred again in the 1960s and 1970s .
18 Rail users have been subjected to annual fare increases well above inflation for several years now , so it is quite justified for motorists to receive some of the same treatment .
19 So they have some of the same kind of problems that we have , but in a rather different form .
20 Tolkien and Lewis , in some of the same spirit , decided to make a party issue out of the election to the Oxford Chair of Poetry in 1938 .
21 PAHs are some of the same group of cancer-causing substances that are found in cigarette smoke , oil and vehicle exhaust fumes .
22 Another study , by Mintel , a market-research company , covers some of the same ground as the academics ' book ( but costs £795 ) .
23 There followed such extravagant follies as Bonnie Prince Charlie ( 1948 ) and an Anna Karenina ( 1947 ) in which Vivien Leigh vainly tried to bring some of the same magic to the role as Greta Garbo had 12 years earlier .
24 Bowled over by the originality and assurance of Joyce 's Ulysses , which was being sent to him by the author in typescript section by section , Pound was between 1920 and 1922 dismantling the several hundred lines of The Cantos that he had written and published , and recasting them radically , using some of the same material but trying for a less personalized presentation .
25 Certainly anyone who has ever had a severe , immediate reaction to a food is likely to react in the same way if they are told that they have consumed some of the same food .
26 There has been some of the same controversy over the role of the mental handicap hospitals as over the psychiatric hospitals , but on the whole the issue is clearer : they ought to be replaced by smaller units , ranging from hostels and homes to specialist hospital units able to provide intensive nursing for the severely handicapped minority .
27 Some of the same thinking that led Balcon to MGM persuaded Hitchcock , in 1939 , to sign a deal with David O. Selznick and emigrate to Hollywood .
28 In contemporary British society this link is accepted to a greater degree so far as the care of children and motherhood is concerned , though social attitudes still reveal some of the same ambivalence .
29 It is exactly the same tension that made The Smiths a success , and in their low-key way I suspect that Felt will keep some of the same cult appeal now they are gone .
30 The speed reductions would be achieved , by applying at critical points in the network , some of the same sort of Verkehrsberuhigung measures as those which were at that time being installed in the new rest and play areas .
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