Example sentences of "same [noun sg] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A law which regulates the ability of a local authority to display venereal disease posters in public places is given the same weighting as a law which expands the welfare state substantially through the provision of free school education or establishes a free health service .
2 However , in 1932 a colleague of Rutherford 's at Cambridge , James Chadwick , discovered that the nucleus contained another particle , called the neutron , which had almost the same mass as a proton but no electrical charge .
3 A proportional tax levied at each date on consumption plus wealth transfers would therefore have the same base as a tax on lifetime income : and the same would not be true of a tax on current income ( ) , where A denotes assets held .
4 Thus , a child aged 8 years experiencing language difficulties might perform on a particular language test at the same level as a group of ordinary children of 6 years of age .
5 Then I got another job , the same kind as a machinist , and I put the baby in a nursery .
6 Ben and Viz received equal attention , while dear old Dickens was approached with the same enthusiasm as a postman views a front gate marked ‘ Beware Of The Large , Fierce And Probably Rabid Dog . ’
7 ( This is no doubt in some way concerned with the employee 's honesty. ) 2 The nature of the information itself Information will only be protected if it can properly be classed as a business secret or as material which , while not properly described as a business secret is , in all the circumstances , of such a highly confidential nature as to require the same protection as a business secret eo nomine .
8 In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed .
9 This is difficult to explain since when a fully saturated complex is half dissociated it will have the same occupancy as a complex generated at half saturation .
10 The Consumers ' Association said one in 10 people was unhappy with the running of current accounts , the same figure as a year ago when the association condemned high street banks for ‘ breathtaking arrogance ’ .
11 The Consumers ' Association said one in 10 people was unhappy with the running of current accounts , the same figure as a year ago when the association condemned high street banks for ‘ breathtaking arrogance ’ .
12 As the poets say — ’ he could not bring to mind a single line and so he stopped , and looked down on the lake as if in mourning , intuiting , correctly , that this would have the same effect as a couplet .
13 The fact that ‘ emergency cases ’ apart , no medical treatment of an adult patient of full capacity can be undertaken without his consent , creates a situation in which the absence of consent has much the same effect as a refusal .
14 That para states that as a result of the decision in Re Duomatic Ltd ( 1969 ) 1 All ER 161 , if , on some occasion other than the annual general meeting , the shareholders agree to remunerate the directors with certain sums , then that agreement has the same force as a resolution passed in a general meeting .
15 As a great admirer of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dresses , she often wore the long , British-made cotton dresses to Embassy functions — once she found she was clothed in the same fabric as a sofa — an embarrassment which she carried off with great panache .
16 An eight-year-old child does not learn the same thing at the same speed as a five-year-old child .
17 If a road sweeper kills the king he ca n't expect to get the same gratuity as a general .
18 In theory an excise on home production of tobacco could have produced the same revenue as a tax on imports but in practice it took a strong and efficient government to levy an excise , while almost any government could find private businessmen who would pay a lump sum of cash in return for the right to collect the official rates of customs duties at a port .
19 Let us first consider the impact of imposing a proportional income tax , that is , one that taxed a constant proportion of one 's income however high , and raising the same revenue as a tax on one particular product , or a narrow range of products .
20 The major reasons for a care order are that the children have themselves committed an offence , they are in need of care , protection and control , or they or another child of the same family have been victims of an offence or are in the same household as a person convicted of a serious offence such as manslaughter , cruelty or suchlike .
21 The human mind — which , from this viewpoint , is the brain — is said to work on the same plan as a computer , with operations being carried out on physical symbols .
22 Among soldiers , policemen and civilians there had been 267 deaths in the same period as a result of " terrorist incidents " .
23 She gently reminded me that on being in the same room as a baby , the same borough , I became about as relaxed and spontaneous as any old member of the royal family being introduced to Lech Walesa .
24 Julia Foster , who starred with Crawford in Two Left Feet , which was finally released during the play 's run , was cast as Brian 's prim girlfriend , Tricia , horrified by the idea of making love in the same room as a stranger .
25 He nodded and there followed an awkward silence where Julie and Nina must have become aware of the tension , for they glanced at each other at the same moment as a patient arrived in the centre .
26 As long as your amp is high enough to support your guitar properly then GuitaRest does exactly the same job as a guitar stand — except that it 's neater , lighter , takes up less space , costs less than most and also incorporates a recess to accommodate your armoury of assorted plectra .
27 Every MS-DOS computer has a clock that can be used to do the same job as a stop watch .
28 Previously only available in the Professional range , this multi-purpose variable-speed power saw , rated at 710 watts , does the same job as a range of hand saws : it will cut through hard or soft wood , fibre- and plasterboard , plastics and metals ( ferrous and non-ferrous ) , cutting through timbers or across boards with accuracy and ease .
29 The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er
30 It was er he had had it since my grandfather had had the same place as a blacksmith 's shop and then my father followed on with the garage with cycles first of all , and then when the motor trade came in , he started in motors repairing .
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