Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 Again in the 45–60 age group , noticeably higher proportions of unmarried women were caring for someone in the same household , were the main carers of their disabled relatives and friends , and were caring for over twenty hours a week than were either their married or male counterparts ( Green , 1988 , pp. 9–10 ) .
2 Around 1.7 million of these were looking after someone in the same household ; 1.4 million were providing help or supervision for at least twenty hours a week ; and 3.7 million were carrying the main responsibility for providing that help ( Green , 1988 ) .
3 We were always out there looking for something new , trying to find any slight glimmer of someone with the same kind of ideas as us .
4 I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ .
5 A six-footer behind some-one of the same size in the driver 's seat would have to sit in a splayed knees/bent neck posture .
6 Certainly , the only go , the only way I run a shift , the way she runs checkouts , is erm , by going , you , it 's the same thing every day , you 've got to run through everything on the same point order , because you know , you 've been doing it , it 's got to be done at the same time , like bread the last lot 's got to be on by four .
7 If you 're on a sailing or windsurf holiday you may still book without a supplement if you 're willing to share with someone on the same holiday .
8 In the absence of an analysis of heterosexism , heterosexuals can ( and do ) reduce our gayness or lesbianism to just living with someone of the same sex , thus enabling them to remove the possibility of challenge from our relationships with them .
9 I move away as I would prefer to talk with someone from the same planet .
10 Though Craig and Jo have a number of sexy scenes together in Home and Away , she says the advantage of her real-life relationship with someone in the same industry is that her partner fully understands that romantic clinches with an international heart-throb are just part of the job .
11 When he gives evidence , sitting for the most part on two cushions , he leans forwards attentively like a headmaster , and with something of the same terrifying effect .
12 And she walked out of the room with something of the same wary insistence on normality .
13 It is theoretically possible for a cow to jump over the moon with something like the same improbability .
14 I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy .
15 E.D. Simon , Chairman of Manchester Housing Committee ( 1919–23 ) and Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Health ( 1931 ) was confident of being able to rebuild Britain within 20 years : ‘ If we can tackle the problems of peace with anything like the same sense of purpose , the same devotion , and the same efficiency as we have shown during the war , the Rebuilding of Britain will be child 's play ’ ( Simon , 1945 , p. 228 ) .
16 But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ .
17 GOLFING taxi driver Derek Funcks defied odds of several millions to one by hitting a hole in one … and then hitting another hole in one on the same round .
18 RICHMOND Golf Club produced a remarkable family double when Peter Hughes and his son both holed in one on the same day .
19 He was therefore as vital a figure as Salisbury , and in something of the same way : Salisbury was the link between the anti-coalition forces outside the government , and Law was the link between anti-coalitionists outside and critical Unionists within .
20 But the term could be extended , so that kangaroos might be said to represent deer in Australia because they live in something like the same way .
21 I would love to hear from anyone in the same situation .
22 In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries .
23 Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’
24 Her instinct is to relate to everyone in the same way .
25 Now these standards need to be visible , common to everyone in the same job , and fixed , er , like a yardstick , by which the employee can measure his activities for himself .
26 to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex .
27 She had reduced the voice to something on the same level of annoyance as a heavy breather .
28 Pennies and Singing Detective raised interest and expectation , but not on anything like the same scale .
29 His competitor , Barry O'Donovan of Carbrook Chemicals , does not export on anything like the same scale as himself , he says .
30 Women rowers ca n't take part on anything like the same scale as the men yet , but the feeling was they 're here to stay :
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