Example sentences of "[prep] [art] same [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Abraham ( c. 1793–1860 ) , bricklayer and the last man subjected to an ‘ appeal of murder ’ , by which a person acquitted of murder could be tried for the same offence a second time , was born c .1793 , the son of a Castle Bromwich builder . |
| 2 | Chevron 's net profits for the first quarter of this year ( adjusted for changes in accounting ) were $101m , 47% higher than for the same period a year earlier . |
| 3 | The pupil understands the following : 1a measurement is repeated covering by a unit ; 1b different sized units will give different numerical values whet , the same measurement is made ; 1 c for the same measurement a larger unit will give a smaller numerical value than will a smaller unit ; 1d the transitivity of the relationships " larger than " and " smaller than " . |
| 4 | During the same period a Mr. Bowes & Co. paid £75 in 1762 and £129 in 1766 , although there is no indication who Bowes , in fact , was . |
| 5 | During the same period a much less exclusively analytical approach was being developed by an enterprising young couple , David and Jane Shields , who based their tiny ecological engineering company , Living Water , at Edinburgh University . |
| 6 | About the same time a series of unsolved murders of prostitutes in that city came to an end . |
| 7 | At the end of 1777 de Broglie submitted to King Louis XVI an improved version of the proposals he had drafted 12 years before while at about the same time a new figure appeared on the scene , the 39-year-old Edward Dumouriez , an able army officer who had caught the eye of the king and been appointed Commandant of Cherbourg . |
| 8 | And about the same time a mystery blaze broke out at Madame Tussaud 's , another of the capitals major tourist attractions . |
| 9 | ‘ Round about the same time a Panamanian registered cargo ship by the name of the Ramsland , chartered by the same gang who had organized the Valhalla , put into Boston harbour and was promptly seized by the United States Coast Guard . |
| 10 | At about the same time a consortium of West European banks refused to grant Cuba the credits it had requested , apparently as a result of US pressure . |
| 11 | About the same time a papal envoy , Egidius , was despatched to gain news , followed by Cardinal Guido of Preneste , the pope 's personal representative . |
| 12 | Thus in 1506 the Spanish representative in Venice was succeeded by his son , who presented to the doge on the day after his father 's death credentials prepared in advance ; and when about the same time a French ambassador to Hungary died , his duties immediately passed to his nephew , who completed the work of the embassy . |
| 13 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 14 | It is not advisable to indulge in elegant variation ; repetition of the same word a dozen times to convey the same meaning in the same paragraph is better than risking ambiguity . |
| 15 | The respondent , without authority , keyed commands into a computer and thereby obtained by means of the same computer a discount , to which he was not entitled , on goods being purchased at a supplier . |
| 16 | Plotted on double logarithmic graph paper this emerges as a straight line making forecasting of costs for projected future batches of the same product a simple exercise as long as conditions are not seriously altered . |
| 17 | The remainder is a retrograde of the same series a semitone lower . |
| 18 | Net profits slumped by 41% to $12.3m compared with the same period a year ago . |
| 19 | Third-quarter net profits at News Corp more than doubled to A$191m ( $140m ) , compared with the same period a year ago ; net profit for the nine months to the end of March increased to A$144m . |
| 20 | Sitting on stones under the same rhododendron a small bird spread her wings and dozed . |
| 21 | When under the same conditions a saturated fatty acid ( stearic ) replaced the arachiodonic acid in sn-2 position almost all biliary cholesterol was in the vesicular fraction . |
| 22 | The society always received and still receives from the same surveyor a basic valuation containing a summary of some but not all the matters contained in the report to the borrower . |
| 23 | Two were out of contact because of physical distance : the fate of a Berwickshire couple who had emigrated to Australia was ‘ a mystery ’ , while even within the same county a Norfolk farm labourer 's parents were too far away to visit on foot , so the family ‘ hardly ever saw them . ’ |
| 24 | In the same way a horse may want to touch a person that it likes . |
| 25 | In the same way a late Roman coin might have the mint mark LON standing for Londinium , the short-lived Roman mint at London which operated between AD286 and 326 . |
| 26 | In the same way a temple which was situated at the top of a flight of steps might be shown on top of steps , though the number of steps on the coin would normally be fewer than in reality . |
| 27 | After flushing out food residues they may be brushed with hot alkali degreaser solution in the same way a chest freezer is tackled . |
| 28 | And , of course , in the same way a student going on to university or polytechnic may immediately make use of some of the Wissenschaft , the actual knowledge , he has acquired at school . |
| 29 | Speedbird make holidays in the same way a great artist creates a painting : 10% inspiration , 90% perspiration . |
| 30 | People could speak English before there was universal literacy , and in the same way a child learns to speak long before he learns to read and write . |