Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] do the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of Labour authorities did the same , believing it could help them plan service development more effectively . |
| 2 | What would happen if other advanced nations did the same ? |
| 3 | He proposed to draw up what could be learned of the history of this area , and hoped that the Earl of Northumbria would ask his old men to do the same , when a meeting might be called to their mutual benefit . |
| 4 | Now each employee at British Steel needs only 4.8 hours to do the same job . |
| 5 | Olive baboons in Gabon defaecate in their home areas , thereby concentrating edible-fruited species , and the Liebermans speculate that the early hominids did the same because there is evidence that there were proto-gardens around occupation sites and that animals were unaware how edible plants came to be there ; a phenomenon known as the ‘ Eden Syndrome ’ . |
| 6 | Conspiratorial imagery was used : ‘ The Zionists continue to attack and criticize Mialster Farrakhan and they pull the strings of their Black and White political marionettes to do the same . ’ |
| 7 | So anglers need larger weights to do the same job — which could distract the fish . |
| 8 | But essentially all these tests do the same thing because they 're seeing whether the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample are robust over all sub-samples , right , we ca n't , we would n't bother testing over all sub-samples though we can do , it 's just if we have good reason to believe that behaviour in one sub-sample different for behaviour in another E G use er Chow test or equivalently a dummy variable on the intercept to see whether there was any change . |
| 9 | She asked for identification and we 'd urge all parents to do the same . |
| 10 | The Egyptian magicians did the same through their secret arts . |
| 11 | A large , excellent doctors ' practice proceeded — how many doctors did the same ? — and made a claim for the reimbursement that they expected . |
| 12 | Such a taboo breaker is dangerous to the rest of the members of the society because they have strong unconscious desires to do the same thing . |
| 13 | Other foster children with happy memories did the same , though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic . |
| 14 | Three days later , three more officers did the same thing . |
| 15 | ( Associated Newspapers did the same , and both groups thereby had a useful cushion when the oil price rises and economic crises of the early 1970s saw newsprint prices quadruple . ) |
| 16 | there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) . |
| 17 | NBT audiences are ‘ not content to look at rows and rows of identical girls doing the same thing , ’ he maintains . |
| 18 | If , on the other hand , a pragmatist judge almost invariably applies his new rules retrospectively and encourages other judges to do the same , this will achieve a further , very great benefit for their community . |
| 19 | ‘ No , that 's actually two guitars doing the same part , but very tight and panned left and right . |
| 20 | And in a relatively small way , but when you think of the other universities doing the same sort of thing , in a larger way , we are offering this kind of opportunity to people . |
| 21 | I have found over the years that it is immensely helpful to take time out and try to think things through , and I would imagine that most other managers do the same , even though all of us are heavily action-orientated . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm willing to abide by all laws — and I 'll try to persuade other Romanies to do the same , but I 'm not likely to succeed until my people can see these laws protecting as well as persecuting them . ’ |
| 23 | These two men did the same sort of job . |
| 24 | I was n't too happy about getting down the rock-climb , but luckily there were two other fellows doing the same thing so we egged each other on . |
| 25 | She counselled other women to do the same : ‘ You can make your womanhood a sort of external conscience to them . |
| 26 | We look to the British car manufacturing industry and its European counterparts to do the same as quickly as possible . |
| 27 | most women do the same . |