Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] the same " in BNC.

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1 In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated .
2 The aim of our study is to identify among subjects treated using the same endoscopic protocol — that is , urgent sclerotherapy , those dying within the first six weeks of their first variceal haemorrhage .
3 It is widely believed that the conservatism of the farm worker and his attachment to traditional styles obliged manufacturers to continue to produce the same wide range of designs as had been produced by local smiths in the pre-industrial period .
4 The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents .
5 These designs involve slipping the same needle for between two and four rows .
6 The beautiful eyes seemed to have the same dark depths as those of her brother but they did not have his sharp , probing gaze .
7 Why How did your brothers manage to do the same job as he did ?
8 One of the sad things about history is that nations keep making the same mistakes .
9 I had suggested all cars would inevitably look the same , as rival designers struggled to meet the same constraints dictated by safety requirements and ever-better fuel economy .
10 There is some repetition as the authors backtrack to report the same developments from different points of view and new characters are introduced ; the detailed mathematical discussions do become daunting for the non-specialist reader .
11 His eyes had turned the same colour and I caught a whiff of that strange perfume which sometimes emanated from him , sweet but sickly .
12 For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) .
13 The Pilot Survey showed some monitoring , further standardisation of the equipment was essential , mainly though , I 'm going to make sure all schools have got the same pipes and connector and I 'm going to give them some solutions to test because there was a bit of variation between schools , and there will be variation geographically , so I want to be able to have a measure of any error that will be involved as well .
14 Although many London pubs seemed to look the same when he first walked in , Dexter enjoyed collating the differences that set one apart from another .
15 LOOKING back , Offshore Europe 93 may be remembered as the event at which the oil industry and its contractors started playing the same tune .
16 the design of policy in the presence of rival models purporting to represent the same economy ;
17 The so-called modern values bring about a convergence of culture through improved mass communications , the elites of Third World countries come to share the same culture as those in the industrialised world .
18 Two promoters had obtained the same A G ( all mutations are indicated for the upper strand ) substitution at position -65 , two promoters had obtained an A G substitution at -72 , three promoters had obtained double mutations : A G at -65 together with C T at -1 , A G at -65 with C T at +4 and A G at -65 together with A G at -33 .
19 And the tame descendants have kept the same views on this matter .
20 But with the other companies that have been established , and all water companies have done the same , the way to increase profits is to go into er a business which you 're in competition with other businesses and you stand or fail as to how well you do on that .
21 So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner .
22 Many fonts supplied have the same names as famous typographic faces but unless the typographer 's width tables have been provided for the target device all sorts of trouble can occur .
23 Adjectives seem to need the same rule , to produce stress patterns such
24 The village rector asked the mourners to try to show the same love that brought them to the service …
25 ‘ America is so big that bands are n't surrounded by other bands trying to do the same thing .
26 Composers have followed the same pattern . )
27 I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream .
28 The trouble is that many other firms want to do the same , so the profits of the business will probably be lower by then .
29 The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God .
30 Dr Tim Bishop , for the ICRF in Leeds , added : ‘ We looked at dozens of case studies , from as far apart as America , Holland , Iceland , Germany , France , Sweden and the UK — in fact , almost all the known families with chromosome 17 linkage data and we were amazed to see that all of the families seemed to have the same genetic defect . ’
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