Example sentences of "[vb pp] by the same [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Truman , lacking the experience of foreign affairs , was surrounded by the same advisers as Roosevelt and was willing to continue the same policy .
2 As for Freud , the clitoris continues to be surrounded by the same problems that it held for nineteenth-century medicine .
3 ‘ So far in our investigation we are aware of at least ten loyalist prisoners who have been interviewed by the same policemen .
4 Outside the TUC , individual trade unions have their own education programmes which are not always hampered by the same constraints .
5 Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) .
6 Communal arrangements tend to be very short-lived and are , ironically , often beset by the same problems as plague the cereal-packet family .
7 An important aspect of Piaget 's approach is his claim that , since children the world over are very similar physiologically and neurologically , and since the world they explore is regulated by the same laws of nature , progress , in terms of their ability to make sense of the world , will be broadly consistent across all children .
8 The salt we sprinkle on our food today is produced by the same methods our ancestors used , but we operate on a bigger scale .
9 The musical coherence produced by the same techniques in Arion is rare in the cantata , for its composers generally yielded to Italian influence in seeking vivid contrasts between movements .
10 Compare this with a ‘ puzzle ’ structure used by the same authors with a similar age group of children who had asked for a ‘ horror mystery ’ drama .
11 No clear distinction was made between the temporal and spiritual privileges of the Church ; they all stood on the same level , enforced by the same sanctions , guaranteed by the same authority , reflecting the same divine ordering of the world .
12 Adobe Illustrator , Motif version , already out for other Unix systems , will be offered by the same distributors later this year .
13 The refusal of timber-growing countries in temperate regions to be bound by the same rules that apply to tropical timber producers has led to the collapse of attempts at meetings in Geneva to renegotiate the International Tropical Timber Agreement ( ITTA ) .
14 Also , it is by no means a foregone conclusion that the ‘ expert ’ way is either ‘ correct ’ or ‘ more appropriate , ’ nor that the conclusions need always be reached by the same processes of thought and action .
15 He turned and left , ignoring the shouts and screams of the small wet attendant as — after the under-cook had gathered the other scullions round , pointed to the cauldron , the ladle and its own belly before nodding at the wet attendant — the kicking , howling creature was grabbed by the same scullions who had recently been comforting it , hoisted up the ladder still resting against the side of the great vat , and thrown back in .
16 The more valuable emergency aid was siphoned off by foreign ministry officials for their own use or re-sale ( just as many of the outpourings of Western sympathy for the orphans and destitute of Ceauşescu 's Romania were purloined by the same fat-cats in the ministries early in 1990 after the fall of their master ) .
17 The functions which can later be distinguished as those of ‘ priest ’ , ‘ prophet ’ or ‘ bard ’ — and in more modern terms ‘ historian ’ or even ‘ scientist ’ — were often originally exercised by the same individuals or groups of individuals .
18 Finally , the course and outcome of the disorder will be affected by the same kinds of events and environment , and by certain treatment and rehabilitation measures .
19 Some of the criticisms which are voiced by service planners and professionals when thinking about ordinary housing for long-term patients is that it is ‘ too expensive ’ , or that ‘ They ca n't cope on their own , ’ or that ‘ They 'll be affected by the same stresses and strains that put them in hospital in the first place . ’
20 Can prison diets and living conditions reasonably be judged by the same criteria as those in western countries , when the quality of life for the ‘ honest poor ’ outside is so much lower ?
21 As a general rule , rugs employing bolder , more overtly geometric compositions should be judged by the same criteria as nomadic rugs , particularly if they are also dyed in a limited palette of austere or primary shades .
22 But even when they are judged by the same criteria , the evidence does not support the contention that private institutions perform better ( Goodsell 1983 , pp. 48–55 ) .
23 In contrast , the finest and most prestigious village rugs should be judged by the same standards as workshop items .
24 If Scotland is to maintain the highest level of research capability to match that of universities south of the Border , then research money must follow quality as judged by the same standards throughout the UK ( however imperfect these measurements are ) .
25 Its post-history will be driven by the same fantasies and phobias as its wretched and ravaging history .
26 are banked by the same ancestors :
27 This would give you four separate pictures that together form a set , linked by the same frames and the colour pink .
28 DESPITE a disappointing tour of Pakistan , where they went down 1–4 in the one-day series , Sri Lanka have stuck by the same players for this competition .
29 Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district .
30 Administrative problems played their part in this story since the centres were not run by the same authorities as those managing the state hospitals .
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