Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 2 | In the form here , the inner surfaces of the outer petals are the most perfect white , the whole of the three inner petals the same colour . |
| 3 | In an important way casual working demands the same disciplines of the worker as more traditional working . |
| 4 | I can therefore find no ground for drawing the narrow distinction and would hold that in the case of all in-house benefits the same test applies , viz. the cost of the benefit to the employer is the additional or marginal cost only . |
| 5 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 6 | Eleven suspects were rounded up for questioning in other Basque towns the same day . |