Example sentences of "[vb past] that the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it .
2 They found that the same pattern of results was obtained even when only one eye fixation per slide was allowed , always on the central detail .
3 By studying a series of successively younger embryos he found that the same cells at the tip of the limbs always contacted the central nervous system first , and that subsequent connections were always made along pathways established by the axon processes extended by these pioneer cells .
4 Pearlin and his colleagues ( 1981 ) found that the same sorts of cognitive strategies which were commonly successfully employed by people adapting to chronic role strains were also effective in helping to neutralise the threat of severe events .
5 Augustine added that the same story is seldom repeated in precisely the same words by a single person .
6 The ordinance of 26 August 1944 stipulated that the same person could not direct more than one publication .
7 This assumed that the same rewards ( salaries ) would be sufficiently important to all individuals to motivate them .
8 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 .
9 He had heard about the lack of hospitals , the lack of schools ; heard that the same conditions exist throughout the Third World .
10 The Head Girl warned that the same fate would happen to me .
11 Tai Hing Cotton Mill Ltd. v. Kamsing Knitting Factory ( 1978 P.C. ) established that the same principle applies where the innocent party immediately accepts the anticipatory breach as a repudiation of the contract .
12 Then , inconsistent test methods meant that the same cooker could be rated as 800W by one manufacturer , and 650W by another — little help when trying to follow instructions for heating convenience foods .
13 They knew that the same power he used to move them moved him .
14 But when he insisted that the same warnings should be used on advertisements , and be bigger than at present , he got them furious .
15 But erm , I woul what , erm , I also , the Hotel , we bought that the same way , they were selling that back and making quite a fair bit of profit , investing the money in arable land .
16 The Hindus asserted that the same rhythm must of necessity be mirrored at all stages of creation and in all domains .
17 Last night it emerged that the same hospital was involved in another baby mix-up .
18 As I recall , the French poets of the late 19th century said that the same motivation lay behind their startling verse : they wanted to epater la bourgeoisie .
19 Many of us wished that the same breadth of opportunity had been on offer in our own day .
20 The majority of the Court of Appeal concluded that the same principle should not apply in the case of such public authorities .
21 The Council 's decision to scrap the tradition in regard to the diaconate suggested that the same tradition in regard to the priesthood could equally well be abandoned if it was pastorally desirable .
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