Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That cash aid is due to run out on March 31 and unit organiser Kate Harker said there were concerns that without the Government money it would not be possible to continue the same level of service . |
| 2 | It was possible to see the same sort of divide as at the commercial end : every second house had been restored and repainted , with extensions sprouting in the gaps between them . |
| 3 | Truman , lacking the experience of foreign affairs , was surrounded by the same advisers as Roosevelt and was willing to continue the same policy . |
| 4 | Below- the-line activity in the US now takes 60 per cent of marketers ' expenditure , and it would be foolish to exclude the same thing happening here . |
| 5 | It seems to us that these acts were sufficient to support a finding of possession and indeed on the material before us we would be disposed to reach the same conclusion … |
| 6 | But only one in 25 Vauxhalls sold last year was a diesel , so it would be unrealistic to expect the same level of stocks and enthusiasm from a Vauxhall dealer . |
| 7 | Many horses may do one thing , but others will do something quite different to express the same emotion . |
| 8 | It is acceptable to use the same name as someone else if it is used for a different class of goods or services to the ones for which the first mark is registered . |
| 9 | ( How duncical , by the way , for both French and English to retain the same phrase . |
| 10 | They are prepared to pay the same amount of rent as you are at present receiving from it . ’ |
| 11 | The salesmen were willing to follow the same line as it entailed no extra effort on their part and was not likely to interfere with their way of doing things . |
| 12 | If you all get on well and are prepared to make the same sacrifices to succeed , you might just be ‘ the right stuff ’ . |
| 13 | Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way . |
| 14 | As he put it , ‘ not until the habits of the rich are changed and they are again content to breathe the same air and walk the same streets as the poor will East London be ‘ saved ’ . |
| 15 | It 's easy to see the same thing happening today ; when the United States troops went to Somalia , earlier this year , their officers had hardly anything to do with the local experts , preferring to stick with their prejudices about the lack of intelligence of those whose skins were not the same colour as their own . |
| 16 | ‘ I in no way dissent from this reasoning , but I should myself have been content to derive the same conclusion from the broader consideration that Parliament must have intended rating authorities to act in the same high principled way expected by the court of its own officers and not to retain rates paid under a mistake of law , or in paragraph ( a ) upon an erroneous valuation , unless there were , as Parliament must have contemplated there might be in some cases , special circumstances in which a particular overpayment was made such as to justify retention of the whole or part of the amount overpaid . |
| 17 | Even if one thinks one 's own company will not reduce costs further , it is dangerous to make the same assumption for one 's rivals . |
| 18 | If an effective method can be found , then it may be possible to utilise the same information to aid the choice of candidate words in positions where no error has been found . |
| 19 | It may be helpful , when considering a precedent , to ask why a particular term has been included , and what it is intended to achieve , and then consider whether the same result can be achieved in any other way : for instance , it may be possible to express the same idea more clearly or concisely . |
| 20 | They are n't likely to wear the same garment for six years , as Granny might do ! |
| 21 | When Ruth climbed into her bed that night Miss Beard was packing for her next day 's departure and she was far more talkative than usual , regaling Ruth with the names and pedigrees of notables with whom she might be privileged to breathe the same air . |
| 22 | A fortnight later , on the plains of the Namoi , Gould was thrilled to see the same bird in such great numbers that , when Natty drove them up before him , ‘ eight fell to a single discharge' of his gun . |
| 23 | Perhaps the most fundamental was the great variation in the size and resources of units all supposed to perform the same tasks at roughly the same standards . |
| 24 | The DAF workers are less likely to attract the same sort of gritty sympathy that the miners have done . |
| 25 | Consequently , any measure which seeks to strengthen central influence on the curriculum and to weaken teachers ' autonomy in curriculum matters is still likely to evince the same suspicion and hostility with which teachers responded to ‘ payment by results ’ . |
| 26 | The difficulty is that we are quite likely to pick the same herd twice and if that were to happen we would have to sample it twice . |
| 27 | Parents who themselves behave in a responsible way towards their children , making it a habit to keep them informed of their whereabouts and accounting for their own actions , are more likely to receive the same consideration in return . |
| 28 | For example , it is a recognized fact that a child who has been regularly beaten by one or both of his parents is extremely likely to inflict the same violence on his own children . |
| 29 | First , on average , a better-educated person is likely to do the same job better than one who is less educated . |
| 30 | With their experienced hooker David Watkinson still struggling for fitness , Dewsbury are likely to retain the same side as Sunday . |