Example sentences of "[prep] the same [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 In 1695 and 1708 Parliament , stung to action by the clamours of the London merchants , passed legislation which compelled the Admiralty to allocate specified numbers of ships to the task of protecting commerce ; an unsuccessful Bill for the same purpose was introduced in 1742 .
2 Nine healthy , well nourished ( mean weight for height 89% of the NCHS median value ) , age matched children ( age 6–19 m ) for the same location were included as controls .
3 There must have been a good reason for the same method was also in use at other coach works .
4 Sotheby 's figures for the same period were close to Christie 's but registered a drop in dollar terms on last year 's autumn period : worldwide auction sales for 1992 of $1.125 billion ( £674 million ) with September to December sales at $495.4 million ( £318 million ) .
5 So she watched television and erm Princess Diana erm said something shocking at lunchtime at a luncheon party or lunch party and erm maybe just erm ten days before that Princess Diana 's announcement we were told by the Register Teacher that we will have an assignment of in February and we will compare some newspapers articles and maybe she did n't explain very erm specifically but she just gave us erm the brief information about er register assignment in February and she told us that we should er we should collect some newspapers about the same title was about the same topic and ho we should compare how each newspaper treated , treats the er news or what do you call that ?
6 A dispute in Hungary at about the same time was not resolved so amicably , at least in part because Hungary occupied a far more important strategic position in terms of Soviet security than did Yugoslavia .
7 Occasionally the inner and outer cases of the same watch were made of silver of different standards .
8 The town was burnt in June 1646 by the Irish and in October of the same year was occupied by a garrison of English troops .
9 It was also true that the renewed Triple Alliance of the same year was soon buttressed so as to isolate France and Russia still more .
10 ( The average British holding of the same date was 66 acres . )
11 Inside the ancestral home of the de Tracy family , a more serious discussion of the same subject was under way .
12 The Federal Assembly had accepted a compromise only on March 29 , whereby different versions of the same title were to be used in the Czech Lands and in Slovakia [ see p. 37326 ] .
13 Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past .
14 The doctor who attended him , Guillaume de Harselly , was evidently experienced in cases of mental illness , and warned the royal counsellors that other attacks of the same kind were to be expected .
15 Other stars of the same kind were found , and by now many are known .
16 Criticisms of the same kind were also to be made by such as Philippe de Mézières , whose long reflective work on the state of French society , the Songe du vieil pèlerin , was written towards the end of the fourteenth century .
17 Four days later , after the saddle had been replaced , the front wheel of the same bike was stolen .
18 The only other countries in Western Europe which were able to achieve reductions of the same magnitude were those where the nuclear share of electricity were 50 per cent or more .
19 Separate unspiked aliquots of the same dialysate were also assayed .
20 The original film , with Henry Fonda , James Cagney and Jack Lemmon based on Thomas Heggen 's novel of the same name was applauded worldwide .
21 The Sleeping Saloons of the same era were of the same dimensions and weighed about 40 tons .
22 The Pictish succession was not by primogeniture but by tanistry , a system in which the senior and fittest member of the same blood was appointed heir , frequently from the matrilineal side .
23 A combination of the use of total DNA restriction digest patterns ( Fig 1 ) and ribopatterns ( Fig 2 ) showed that the same strain of H pylori or subtype of the same strain was present in more than one member of three out of four families tested .
24 An equally famous expression of the same view was given by Kant 's pupil , the philosopher Fichte ( 1762–1814 ) , ‘ The metaphysical only , and not the historical , can give us blessedness . ’
25 As we shall see in a later chapter , much of the same reasoning was to recur towards the end of the 1980s in the search for ways of implementing punishment in the community .
26 683 were whether ( a ) the fact that the Bar Council , which was the accusatorial body , formed part of the Senate , which was the judicial body , meant that fair-minded people would regard the proceedings of the Senate 's disciplinary tribunal as tainted with the appearance of bias and ( b ) the fact that members of the same profession were both the accusers and the majority of the disciplinary tribunal could give rise to the same objection .
27 ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads .
28 THREE members of the same family were injured when two cars crashed on a busy Northumberland road .
29 ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads .
30 Tuttle stopped short of saying that the Laetoli footprints were Homo — fossil remains of the same age were needed at Laetoli , he said .
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