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

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1 More children ( 90 per cent ) have pre-school education in the GDR than in the Federal Republic ( about 80 per cent ) , but overall about the same proportion go to school .
2 Couples are also older than lone mothers , tend to have larger families , but about the same proportion have a youngest child of under school age .
3 By comparable mechanisms , an animal ( or human ) will find a task easier to learn if others of the same type have learned the same task before .
4 Do n't people at the top of the same tree try to knock each other down ?
5 For example , Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 produces pyoluteorin ( 3 ) , which is effective in controlling damping-off in cotton caused by Pythium ultimum ( this disease prevents or retards the establishment of seedlings ) ; other strains of the same bacterium produce pyrrolnitrin ( 4 ) , which is active against a range of fungal pathogens of cotton , whereas phenazine-1-carboxylic acid ( 5 ) is active against take-all or ‘ whiteheads ’ of wheat caused by Gaeumannomyces graminis var tritici , which infects roots .
6 But while some things in one document may be manifestly weighty , other parts of the same document appear platitudinous , verbose or banal , a stringing together of old-fashioned cliches gilded with a little rhetoric drawn from the often superficial optimism of the early 1960s .
7 Eight lattices of the same text have been created of varying quality .
8 McTaggart can not accept this Humean view because he can discover no relation between mental states which could determine the bundle to which they belong other than one through the self : ‘ We must say that those states , and those only , which are states of the same self form the bundle of parts of that self . ’
9 Sociological explanations of the same condition draw attention to the hospital environment in which mothers have their babies , and to the debilitating effects of medical procedures and technology during labour and delivery .
10 ( The retention of the single ground-line for the Centauromachy is probably due to its adaptation to the narrow field of the vase-neck ; other reminiscences of the same picture do show broken ground . )
11 Whether two different surfaces of the same area have the same radiation signature was generalised to the point where mathematicians asked if drums of the same perimeter and area , but different shape , had different sounds : could one hear the shape of a drum ?
12 Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered .
13 This means that not only must all shareholders of the same class receive the same offer but , for instance , if the offeror subsequently buys shares in the market at a higher price he must increase his offer generally to that higher price .
14 Members of the same family tend to resemble each other ; if one were warningly coloured , many others would be as well .
15 The major reasons for a care order are that the children have themselves committed an offence , they are in need of care , protection and control , or they or another child of the same family have been victims of an offence or are in the same household as a person convicted of a serious offence such as manslaughter , cruelty or suchlike .
16 Welcome back:Three generations of the same family have helped doctors make a pioneering discovery in the battle against diabetes .
17 Three members of the same family have been killed , and two others injured in a collision between an articulated lorry and two cars .
18 Three members of the same family have been found murdered in Oxford .
19 left hand right hand Only helices of the same hand entwine together .
20 Clustered together , branches of the same bank help each other to generate and retain more business than they would do independently .
21 ‘ Men of 45 or 50 have the opportunity of a second summer , having children by a second partner ; women of the same age do n't have that .
22 To view this situation as ‘ normal ’ is unacceptable , especially when other people of the same age do not suffer in this way , and when there is considerable evidence that much can be done to overcome or alleviate the handicap .
23 Some women who come from exactly the same culture with the same intent go through absolute hell .
24 If you are planning major changes to your kitchen , it is worth finding out how neighbours with the same layout have solved the problem .
25 Yet union activists will read into the same policy review an endorsement of the main thrust of Conservative legislation .
26 Well we usually change them into the same thing do n't we if we 're going to add them .
27 An adjoining pizzeria and restaurant under the same management offer indoor or al fresco dining .
28 John Coles , Bryony Orme , and members of the Somerset Levels Project have estimated that this must have involved the exploitation of extensive woodland from which materials were taken out to be fitted into the track planks from the same tree occur in different parts of the track .
29 from the same source come such diverse creatures as Massine 's poodles in La Boutique Fantasque , a delicious pair of goats in Ashton 's Sylvia and of course the squawking Cock and Hens in La Fille Mal Gardée .
30 From the same source come innovations which keep the company in the lead within the industry and form the cutting edge of competition .
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