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

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1 The Stick has got the same range as the piano and I can jump four octaves with one hand .
2 It can be seen that the committee continues to recognise the difference between obtaining possession by a trick ( that is , ‘ by deception ’ in its new wide sense ) and obtaining ownership by false pretences ( again , ‘ by deception ’ ) but the committee intended , and it seems that Parliament has adopted the same approach in section 15 , that , for the purpose of finding the accused guilty , it would cease to matter whether the victim was deceived into transferring ownership or into handing over possession .
3 Where tiger numbers have increased and the size of the reserve has stayed the same , there has been an overspill of tigers into areas of human occupation .
4 er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate .
5 I suppose I am plump — according to the ‘ Height and Weight ’ charts I am on the heavy side of OK , but my weight has stayed the same since I was fourteen , so I know it 's not true that I 'm overeating , or greedy .
6 Notice here that although demand has risen from year 2 to year 3 , net investment has remained the same .
7 I have never known a situation where a doe has used the same breeding stop twice .
8 At present , a council has to set the same standard charge for all unoccupied second homes .
9 The Draft Directive has adopted the same 50 mg/litre nitrate standard as the Drinking Water Directive and proposes the designation of ‘ zones ’ that are ‘ vulnerable ’ to being polluted with nitrate up to 50 mg/litre , either directly or indirectly .
10 To be equivalent to this , an investment in a two-year bond has to yield the same amount , implying that the current two-year rate is rs 2 = 7 per cent : 100(1.07) 2 = 114.49 .
11 That of course assumes that everything spent on transport in England is a national cost and that the policing of London is a national cost , but we say that once we settle down and allocate the nature of expenditure as between the two countries , disallowing the cost of running the southern region of the railways as a United Kingdom expense , it is perfectly clear , as the Scottish newspapers have often demonstrated under the heading ’ Scotching the Myth ’ — Scottish Television has demonstrated the same in a programme of the same name — that there is no question of Scotland being subsidised in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests .
12 More recently in Cinnamond v. British Airports Authority his Lordship has invoked the same type of reasoning , stating that operators of cabs at an airport had no legitimate expectation which would warrant granting them a hearing .
13 So much in Kirtana 's life has stayed the same .
14 And I think the Catholic Church has stayed the same there ; it 's back in the 1950s whereas it 's collapsed healthily down here .
15 The Roman Catholic wake has served the same purposes .
16 But since 1987 the message has remained the same : ‘ Drinking and driving wrecks lives . ’
17 But basically , my thing has stayed the same because I 've got really used to it , although it 's not even all that efficient .
18 The Newmarket man says : ‘ His father was a late developer and Bonny Scot has pro-gressed the same way . ’
19 Where the causes are successive and the second defendant 's breach of duty has caused the same damage as that of the first defendant , the but for test will exonerate the second defendant .
20 One in four men in this country has been a scout , but the camp site image has remained the same ; despite the fact that the short trousers and wide hats went out 20 years ago .
21 The planners ' central analysis has remained the same throughout the controversy .
22 Progress since then has been slow but the principle has remained the same .
23 One fundamental assumption is that the atmosphere has had the same 14 C concentration in the past as now , and this in turn assumes , amongst other things , that the production rate of 14 C has remained constant .
24 There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter .
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