Example sentences of "[prep] [art] same [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 As it was , a few years later another similar boat , a Fairy Swordfish , was purchased for the same purpose which in my opinion was a much inferior seaboat .
2 And then you can also for the same money which by the way I think is er No I 'll let me come to that later .
3 The Sigmar representatives are very influential , and because they cast their votes for the same candidate they wield influence out of proportion to their numbers .
4 For the same reason they have focused on the groups who seemed most likely to be needy : the working class in the inner city , the isolated and the institutionalized .
5 For the same reason they understand why Gandalf tells Frodo not to use the Ring ( use always causes addiction ) ; why Sam , Bilbo and Frodo nevertheless survive their use of it ( addiction in early stages is curable ) ; why Boromir succumbs to the Ring without handling it ( use has to be preceded by desire ) ; and why Faramir can shrug it off ( a wise person is capable of stifling the desire to become addicted , though no wisdom will stifle addiction once contracted ) .
6 For the same reason they have been known to treat surrounding farmland as though it were a vast municipal park across which their dogs can roam or their children can ride their ponies without much thought for the consequences .
7 ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA .
8 For the same reason we feel that it is important to determine ICAM-1 expression in tissues and serum samples of patients with colonic cancer , because ICAM-1 expression on melanoma was shown to be an important pathophysiological parameter .
9 For the same reason it has been successfully refined and modified to accept communism .
10 For the same reason it is also an effective device for constructing a ‘ common enemy ’ or ‘ system ’ for people to unite against .
11 For the same reason you should place any edge stitches that are selected back to B position — the selector level will select the pattern of needles in working position , regardless of where they fall on the needlebed .
12 For the same reason you should not make any comment other than innocuous ones until the microphone has been removed .
13 For the same reason you called tonight .
14 For the same reason you came to your grandfather 's defence , I could never have taken the jade ! ’ she insisted passionately .
15 I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to .
16 For the same reason I dictate my memoirs in the centre of a maze .
17 ‘ Perhaps for the same reason I foolishly asked you to stay with Anna in the first place , ’ he snarled .
18 We 've got out back , it 's all sheltered , next door 's got more for years to put them down the front , my wife wo n't let me for the same reason she says if you blind yourself then any bugger can come in .
19 For the same reason she has , with regret , resigned from the committee .
20 He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago .
21 By the time there are 95 different budget projections on disk for the same period it may be difficult to remember who contributed what .
22 For the same outlay he could have hired 120 childminders at £2 an hour or ten secretaries at £25 an hour .
23 Controls comprised 21 patients with ileal pouches constructed during the same period who had been followed up for a mean duration of 43 months ( range 15–119 months ) and who had had endoscopies that showed no evidence of active inflammation .
24 During the same period there has been a significant overall fall in employment and rise in unemployment , among 16–18-year-olds .
25 Although Nizan 's writings of the period are suffused with acerbic communist ideology , although he was chosen as communist party candidate in Bourg-en-Bresse for the general election of 1932 , although he participated fully in the Universite Ouvriere from its opening in 1932 , during the same period he was also involved in finalising his bourgeois education ( 1927–9 ) , he was also a philosophy teacher at the Lycee Lalande in Bourg-en-Bresse ( 1931–2 ) .
26 During the same period he clearly became involved in royal service , for in 1250 he acted for Henry III at the papal curia in securing the confirmation of the highly controversial election to the bishopric of Winchester of Aymer de Valence [ q.v. ] , the king 's half-brother , and then , in the next year , he was appointed the king 's proctor at the papal curia .
27 During the same period it was also alleged that there was a trade-off between unemployment and inflation , which came to be known as the Phillips curve .
28 Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ .
29 Were we talking about the same sister I wondered .
30 A. If your Temporales are still about the same size they I am afraid it is extremely likely that you have two of the same sex , as size is a major sexual difference in this species , with males around 50 per cent bigger in all directions than females .
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