Example sentences of "[vb past] to [art] same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It referred to the same matters as the Financial Secretary had stated to the Committee and concluded :
2 This effect did not depend on oesophageal acidification as it occurred to the same extent with both pH + and pH - common cavity episodes .
3 Hours later she woke to the same sensation of calm fulfilment .
4 Laidlaw was spun round and the Arab checked his rope then he was pushed aside and Graham subjected to the same treatment .
5 And again the Vice-Chancellor alluded to the same idea , at p. 104 :
6 Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself .
7 The Times , more restrained , came to the same conclusions : ‘ To most sensible , rational people , a verdict which depends on the evidence of a man like Mathews , in the circumstances in which he gave that evidence , can not be safe . ’
8 We soon came to the same decision , which was that having promised the boys we would help them , we could n't now let them down .
9 I looked at it afresh and came to the same conclusion . ’
10 Unknowingly Raistrick followed the same path as the St. Mary 's workers and came to the same conclusion : the instability of the antibacterial substance did not make further attempts worth while .
11 Both the vet and the keeper came to the same conclusion — that Sam had eaten something that did n't agree with him , as he had n't eaten much of his food from the day before .
12 At that precise moment , Delaney came to the same conclusion as Nell .
13 Robert Blatchford , Britain 's most popular socialist writer , came to the same conclusion , but went further , writing enthusiastic articles for the Daily Mail in support of military conscription .
14 Goff and Reasons , after analysing the period 1952–72 , came to the same conclusion : ‘ the Combines Branch has centred its attentions upon the investigations , prosecutions , and conviction of small-medium-sized companies and corporations , leaving the very largest corporations free to engage in their monopolistic practices ’ ( 1978 : 86 ) .
15 Darwin and Wallace came to the same conclusion about archipelago birds .
16 He came to the same conclusion as Duncan .
17 We all came to the same conclusion — the powers that be were determined to make an example of some poor regional company .
18 There is nothing new in that ; we came to the same conclusion earlier when studying the field of a line charge .
19 But no , it appeared not ; report after report , in many different learning tasks and in species as diverse as rats and goldfish , came to the same conclusion .
20 In the early 1970s , in the heyday of abstract philosophy of education , it was commonplace to draw a distinction between education ‘ in the true sense ’ and pseudo-education ; or , which came to the same thing , between education and training .
21 ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose .
22 But ten days later he returned to the same Thornaby service station , filled up with petrol and then paid by cheque .
23 The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona .
24 At the end of the conference Margaret Thatcher returned to the same theme .
25 He returned to the same theme in 1953 , but this time to counteract the ambitious European Political Community .
26 The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu .
27 He returned to the same matter during the Report stage and his amendment was carried , against the Government , on a division .
28 If you eat more on some days and less on others , you will shed weight just as successfully as if you stuck to the same number of calories each day .
29 ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character .
30 In the eighteenth century , as indeed for Aristotle , the best guide was fertility : a male and female belonged to the same species if they would mate and produce viable and fertile offspring .
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