Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [prep] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry . |
| 2 | We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel that any threatened site , be it on land or not , should be looked at in the same way : that is , will excavating this site advance our knowledge of history in a significant way ? |
| 4 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 5 | Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world . |
| 6 | And in the same square stood the parish church of Santa Croce , built at about the same time as the castle . |
| 7 | And possibly it was just a coincidence that Cannistraro 's revelations , fully in keeping with the CIA 's tradition of conducting America 's secret business in public , were made at about the same time that his former colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to discredit Lester Coleman as an obstacle to general acceptance of the Libyan/Air Malta explanation of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 8 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 9 | Coun Hughes said the emergency services were called to Barnard Castle shortly before 2pm , while the nearby health centre was contacted at about the same time . |
| 10 | The p0·75 and p0·875 points are arrived at in the same way . |
| 11 | The p0.75 and p0.875 points are arrived at in the same way . |
| 12 | Three guerrillas were executed at about the same time for offences against civilians , according to the INPFL newspaper Scorpion on Aug. 2 . |
| 13 | Both Tom Rooney and Dan Brady realized that they were being followed at about the same time . |
| 14 | Births and abortion rates increased at about the same time . |
| 15 | The cost at the time the system was developed was estimated at about the same as the salary of one personnel officer — for one year — without the costs of an office , car or secretary that the officer would need . |
| 16 | Similar proposals for another single-lead junction near Yoker had been submitted at about the same time , the inquiry was told , but Dr Hill had insisted that ScotRail justify its use . |
| 17 | Down below , thieves , assassins , trolls and merchants all realised at about the same moment that they were in a room made treacherous of foothold by gold coins and containing something , among the suddenly menacing shapes in the semi-darkness , that was absolutely horrible . |
| 18 | A constituency operation in south-east London was begun at about the same time . |
| 19 | On 27 June the Attorney-General sent to Buckingham warrants for the sale of Neroche , Selwood and Feckenham Forests , and the disafforestment of Braydon was begun at about the same time . |
| 20 | Ideally , we should try to get our document circulated at around the same time to gain maximum interest . |
| 21 | In France , for example , the domestic CP market was launched at around the same time , but by the end of 1990 it had grown in size to FF165 billion , around four times the size of the UK market ( see Table 6.10 for a comparison of commercial paper markets in Europe , the ECP market and the US CP market ) . |
| 22 | A report published at about the same time as this scheme was being inaugurated suggests , however , that BES competition for limited funds may damage housing associations by raising the cost of borrowing . |
| 23 | Each cluster of features is acquired at about the same time , but not all speakers — now seen as " learners " — go through all five stages . |