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

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1 Without such explanation , of course , it makes it difficult to accept that the same things really are taking place in the different spheres .
2 When night fell we were appalled to find that the same principle had been carried over to the highway .
3 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 ?
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 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 .
7 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 .
8 But that should not lead us to assume that the same holds for the externalities identified here .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 When looking at how to develop and improve the management of its electronic information resources , a local authority needs to ensure that the same questions are asked about the electronic environment as are asked about the traditional ubiquitous paper record .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 There seemed to be no way to ensure that the same tragedy would not be replayed . ’
15 Jack is in overall charge of the LDP sales company and the reason for that is to ensure that the same standards and disciplines of product development , point of sale and , most important , profitability are applied to LDP as to Stoddard Templeton .
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 When the product is the supplier it is naive to suppose that the same rules apply .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 ?
21 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 .
22 Juliet did n't like to admit that the same thought had crossed her own mind .
23 All the discussion seems to show that the same attitudes are coming through in society .
24 It also enabled them to show that the same processes had governed history from the earliest time and that a science of history was therefore possible .
25 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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