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

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1 Finally , an important aspect of administering legislation is the application of the same provisions to a variety of people with different characteristics and the consequent need to use ‘ discretion ’ .
2 I have sat on the opposite bank of a river to where a match was being fished and seen barbel breaking line time after time , and the reaction has always been the same : the tying on of a hook of the same size to the same line that barbel had already treated with the contempt it deserved .
3 By combining information on ships and shipowners found in the Liverpool Plantation Registers with material on the voyages of the same ships to Africa and the Americas gleaned from other trade and shipping records , it is possible to reconstruct in considerable depth a major port 's involvement in the Atlantic trades at this time , and to begin to assess their impact on economic change in its hinterland .
4 On 4 June , the day the Dunkirk evacuation ended , he wrote to the Chiefs of Staff : ‘ if it is so easy for the Germans to invade us … why should it be … impossible for us to do anything of the same kind to him ? ’
5 It is not uncommon for different members of the same court to be in agreement as to the contents of the procedural duty , but to differ as to whether they describe this as resulting from natural justice or fairness .
6 By allowing a number of copies of the same document to be produced on request from the microfilmed back-up copy , branches would be likely to establish their own duplicate files .
7 A squat Nuremberg bowl for the centrepiece and eight or ten specimen glasses of the same ware to be filled with orange carnations and silver grasses , each guest 's place was to have a boutonnière to match and each finger bowl a floating full-blown orange carnation plus a few drops of orange flower water .
8 The mutual recognition provisions apply where applications are made simultaneously or within a short interval of one another for admission of the same securities to official listing on stock exchanges in two or more member states .
9 But , however many skills we possess , not all are of the same value to us .
10 There followed such extravagant follies as Bonnie Prince Charlie ( 1948 ) and an Anna Karenina ( 1947 ) in which Vivien Leigh vainly tried to bring some of the same magic to the role as Greta Garbo had 12 years earlier .
11 On reading several of these research reports , it is apparent that the role of the researcher varies from one study to another , and indeed often varies from one stage of the same study to another .
12 Women of 60 can expect to live to 80 , men of the same age to 75 ( Victor , 1987 , p. 109 ) .
13 In the case of off-market transactions questions may also arise in determining the priority of purported transfers of the same shares to different people .
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