Example sentences of "have [verb] the same [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | At present , a council has to set the same standard charge for all unoccupied second homes . |
2 | This latter comparison and its continuing memory in the culture unquestionably has had the same tranquillising effect on the American underclass as it has on that in Europe . |
3 | The team , coached by national coach Ian ‘ Bucky ’ Buchanan , has displayed the same hard running , no-nonsense tackling as the Namibians . |
4 | And when she 'd got the same blank response to two further letters she 'd sent him , Laura had sorrowfully realised that her marriage was indeed at an end . |
5 | She might be but er she 'd got the same red skirt on as she had she were wearing when we were there ! |
6 | Organic chemists had been troubled and had had to overcome the same semantic problems a century earlier ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
7 | And the teacher , too , might have made the same terrible mistake that she had made back in Teheran all those years before . |
8 | Even so , many succeeded in establishing a relationship similar to a heterosexual marriage , and Hanns Ebensten believes that ‘ had he not been a homosexual , John would have had the same occasional hours of despair and misery , and maybe had a succession of failing marriages and affairs . |
9 | ‘ Chastity ’ may not have had the same social meaning for a working-class girl , accustomed to different courtship and marriage patterns , as for a middle-class young lady . |
10 | ‘ Among them were rich aristocrats who would have had the same fine dental work with gold fillings seen in these so-called remains of the Imperial family . |
11 | He was mentioned in despatches , for having displayed the same casual courage his companions had remarked on before the war as he pursued his favourite pastime of mountaineering ( he had neither the time nor patience for golf and was reckoned by devotees to be only a fair-weather fisherman ) . |
12 | Investors there would nevertheless be permitted to write off against tax 50 per cent of costs entailed in a one-year period , while employees there would have their tax allowances increased , and companies would not have to pay the same local property and capital taxes as in western Germany . |
13 | ‘ I suppose he did n't have to face the same fierce bowling that we get today — I mean , West Indies and all that ? ’ commented Mis Mack 's Solicitor innocently . |
14 | The names of Robert Graves , W.H. Auden , and Christopher Isherwood may serve to remind us of English writers who seem to have reached the same dismaying conclusion over the years since . |
15 | In view of the competition for places , all applicants are required to have covered the same basic entrance requirements . |
16 | Both rooms had received the same brutal searching treatment . |
17 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
18 | Romaine ( 1978b ) has cited the case in Edinburgh of two locally born upper-middle-class speakers who had attended the same private school but spoke with quite different accents . |
19 | READING Barrie Clement 's diatribe ( 6 October ) under the heading ‘ Union law policy remains unclear ’ , I wondered if he had attended the same Labour Party Conference as I did . |
20 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
21 | I think if you ask any housewife , if they 're honest , they 'll turn round and say they feel like a drudge half the time — everybody thinks when they get up in the morning ‘ Oh no , I 've got the same old things to do today , till I go to bed tonight . ’ |
22 | On the other hand : she 'd fortunately made the right career choice and been encouraged by school and family at an early age , got a qualification ( chartered accountancy ) that proved a useful passport , and had had the same supportive bosses any man would expect to get . |
23 | It seemed to the Court that the sentencer had used the same mitigating factors twice over ; once to reduce the starting point , and then to justify a further reduction . |
24 | Enhanced , too , by the knowledge that this story of the legions had reached the same evolutionary culmination not once but twice . |
25 | A woman present asked if Elizabeth were my sister , and at one time I wished she had been — but better not , for she would have lost an adored and incalculable mother and gained a dreadfully unhappy home ; and it would be a pity if we had shared the same literary material . |
26 | Even in its golden age as a theatre , its morning aspect had imparted the same momentary shock of disillusionment — as a tousled , unpowdered woman to her lover of the night before . |
27 | Ironically , Clough 's own kid Nigel had to undergo the same perpetual ultra-critical appraisal of his skills before the Forest manager would accept the striker as a player first and a member of the family second . |
28 | Both have developed the same unusual method of trapping prey — they dig small pitfall traps for it . |
29 | ‘ But I think the average employee in the public sector , who has a job , knows perfectly well that , in the public services nowadays , you have to accept the same sensible level of settlements that people do outside , where things are going hard . |
30 | They have adopted the same macho rhetoric which , until recently , was the sole preserve of the Tories . ’ |