Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Carter had advocated deregulation , but he approached reform via legislation whereas his successor sought the same end primarily through administrative action .
2 ( Initial results on both infants reported in the text used the same procedure but with non-competition trials only and a target contrast of 88% ) .
3 A second visit to the agent produced the same guidance of £50000 .
4 I imagine many a western pioneer got the same sort of surprise as I did when the bride eventually arrived ; except that I did n't marry the dog — there 's nothing peculiar about me .
5 A young Arsenal fan made the same point after having listened rather contemptuously to a discussion by academics about working-class ‘ resistance ’ to increasing middle-class infiltration of football .
6 The administration demonstrated the same speed and foresight in recognising that those who control the monopoly of the means of destruction can translate into the monopoly of gain .
7 This time potential risks were only coded if at least one subject from the other condition described the same information from the five second section of film .
8 In Dynmouth the antiquated and inadequately heated Essoldo showed the same film for seven days at a time and the shops were totally uninteresting .
9 The other side showed the same ear of barley , in reverse , a template to cast the image ; if you pressed candle wax into this side of the coin , you would get an impression of the other face .
10 It has been shown that a potency of a homoeopathic remedy has a higher viscosity than a straight dilution , without succussion , of the same remedy repeated the same number of times , suggesting that large molecules are present in the potency which do not occur in the straight dilution .
11 Later , when the car crossed the same crossing , police followed it and after about half-a-mile put on their blue flashing light .
12 The last time they were in office Labour said the same thing , those earning less than a certain amount would not pay tax , however , in reality everybody paid out more and remember Harold Wilson 's pound in your pocket speech ?
13 A lost love or family tragedy had the same impact on a Ukrainian living 300 years ago as it does today on a 30-year-old singer living in Leeds .
14 And why , if his enemy had the same thought in mind , should he toss it back to him so carelessly ?
15 For two full days , Hawk and the horseman travelled the same course , just out of each other 's sight , but then , one evening , the presence was gone .
16 Impressed by their studiousness , we carefully counted out some coins , making sure each boy got the same amount .
17 If Vanilla Ice spouted the same sort of shit they did he 'd be pilloried .
18 Due to wartime conditions the peasantry got the same amount of agricultural machinery over the years 1915–21 that they had been able to buy in a single year prior to the World War .
19 The resistance of Ulster was also linked to its business roots with such slogans as " Industrial Ulster is united " or " They mean business " , and Law made the same point when he described in Norwich a recent meeting that he had addressed in the Ulster Hall :
20 In the Seven Years War over 30 per cent of the Letters of Marque vessels from Bristol were lost , while a third of Bristol privateers during the American War of Independence met the same fate .
21 The Institute , along with several other respondents , suggested that the OFR should be a Stock Exchange requirement the Scottish Institute made the same suggestion , but advised a five-year trial first .
22 Again , the TUC General Council made the same accusation when it met the Beveridge Committee seventeen years later : F.H .
23 An arm of the law arrived the same day to take Sam away from him , and also demanded to see what the man called ‘ the place of lodging ’ .
24 The first 20 minutes of the second half followed the same pattern before the deadlock was broken .
25 In 1893 Nonconformist MPs formed a Committee for Religious Equality under the chairmanship of Sir Osborne Morgan to challenge the Church Defence Committee formed the same year .
26 Liberal Theology went the same way , though it substituted the categories of Ritschl 's system for those of Hegel 's .
27 The Shannon Development Company had a ‘ Matchmaker ’ service to match up the capacities of local suppliers with the needs of industrial purchasers , the Irish Development Authority ‘ Project Identification Unit ’ supplied local firms with information on the purchasing requirements of the multinationals , and the Irish Goods Council did the same thing .
28 Mowbray had met such men before ; some of his commanders in the knights hospitaller had the same gift as Athelstan of sensing every thought .
29 The boy had the same urge to better himself .
30 ( Ballet dancers of the same period used the same argument about applause during their performances . )
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