Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When night fell we were appalled to find that the same principle had been carried over to the highway .
2 When was the last time you bought an item at one shop , only to find that the same item was much cheaper in another shop ?
3 The law against sex discrimination was strengthened by the Sex Discrimination Act of 1986 which removed the restrictions on the hours women could work , allowing both night work and shift work , and gave women the right to work until the same age as their male colleagues .
4 In the second example , the comma is used to signal that the same clause represents new information .
5 Children will begin to see that the same amount of water will fill containers that appear to be of different capacity .
6 took longer to sort than a same meaning pair like :
7 As soon as the back marking algorithm finds a proof that some state N does not lead to a goal , it tests to see if the same proof applies to ancestors A of N. When the same proof works for A , it prunes A and all its other descendants too .
8 It will be interesting to see if the same thing will happen in Japan ; the Japanese manufacturers belief in the preference of the client for service over a cheaper product is already being tested in the marketplace — to their chagrin , according to contacts within the Japanese manufacturers .
9 It is tempting to suggest that the same kind of jigsaw process will explain the shape of an elephant , but almost certainly it is not true .
10 The right has had the cheek to suggest that the same iron discipline should apply in the aftermath of defeat as in the anticipation of victory .
11 It is tempting to assume that the same rule applies , but quasar redshifts are , in some cases , very much bigger than any measured galaxy redshift , so the assumption involves considerable extrapolation .
12 The Windows for Workgroups beta included software to permit a DOS machine to hook up to a Windows for Workgroups network , although only as a client , so it 's safe to assume that the same Workgroup Connection software will find its way into version 6 .
13 When a module name is first entered into LIFESPAN , it is checked to ensure that the same name has not already been chosen for another module .
14 Because the lumen of the same crypt is visible within a maximal range of 50 µm , every 15th section was stained and counted to ensure that the same crypt was not counted twice .
15 There seemed to be no way to ensure that the same tragedy would not be replayed . ’
16 Regan is right to the extent that to talk of recognition in such circumstances does have a purpose , as it would of a dog 's staccato barks and tail-waving on hearing its master 's voice , but he fails to realise that the same form of words now features in a related , but different , language-game .
17 This obviously is n't to say that the same response would not have been achieved with a centesimal potency , it merely demonstrates the applicability of LM 's in an acute and the simplicity of repetition .
18 Thus , while we follow with interest the supposedly dramatic variation from 2 feet to 10 feet to 39 feet of a certain zone along the English outcrop , we hardly bother with a footnote to say that the same zone in western Scotland is nearly 134 feet thick .
19 Is the concept of sensation involved in these sentences such that it makes sense to say that the same sensation is excited by the presence to our organs of numerous objects , or is it such that numerous objects ( and , indeed , the same object at different times ) can not but excite different , though possibly exactly similar sensations ?
20 From this it is easy to go one step further and to say that the same thing happens in fictional discourse , except that it is a postulated or imagined model of reality — in short , a fiction — that is transferred to the addressee .
21 Prof Carter described the laboratory evidence as really dramatic but said it is too early to say whether the same effect can be produced in patients .
22 Juliet did n't like to admit that the same thought had crossed her own mind .
23 If equal treatment is defined to mean that the same level of contribution must earn the same level of weekly or monthly pension , and if the notion of survivors ' pensions is re-tained , then in these circumstances women are likely to get more in total from their own contributions than men and more out of their husband 's contributions as their survivors .
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