Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] the same " in BNC.
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1 | I suppose it 's too much to expect a senior Queen 's Counsel to work the same hours as ordinary folk , ’ Bragg said grumpily . |
2 | Most probably the boy 's sister had the same biochemical defect . |
3 | Almost always considered secondary to his poetry , Masefield 's fiction has the same basic theme , man 's search for beauty — in nature , in ideas and , often , in the ideal of womanhood . |
4 | The girl 's bike has the same specification as the boy 's but comes with mudguards and a carrier at the back . |
5 | This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men . |
6 | However the direct , positive pattern of England 's football remained the same . |
7 | Perhaps we 're just as competitive professionally , merely better-mannered : perhaps beneath our relaxed admiration for one another 's work lies the same rage to kill . |
8 | A lawyer 's work has the same value as that of a barber in that all men have the same right to cam a living from their labour . |
9 | Genetically speaking , the reason for this is that all the cells except the sex cells in a wolf 's body have the same genes , while , as for the sex cells , all the genes have an equal chance of being in each one of them . |
10 | Mr Clarke 's reaction reveals the same double standard as did his reaction to the doctors ' equally democratic verdict which he proceeded to dismiss . |
11 | A row of well-designed awnings can transform a building , especially if they incorporate the hotel 's or restaurant 's logo using the same colour schemes . |
12 | For teddy 's friend knit the same pattern in reverse leaving just one stitch between the noses ; position the mistletoe centrally above the bears . |
13 | ‘ It ought to be called ‘ The Barber of Fawlty Towers ’ since Peter Knapp 's hilarious version of Rossini 's classic deserves the same sort of popularity enjoyed by that series ’ The Guardian Sun in English by Travelling Opera Directed by Peter Knapp |
14 | It was mentioned in chapter one that the rocks making up the Earth 's mantle show the same kind of behaviour — on a short time-scale , they are rigid ( ’ solid ’ ) enough to transmit shock waves from earthquakes , but on a much longer time-scale , they can ‘ flow ’ , and accommodate the convection movements which are believed to provide the driving mechanisms behind Plate Tectonics . |
15 | Martha 's father has the same of those Micronesian tortoises , sort of run for ages and ages and in fact he says he 's over two hundred years old . |
16 | I can not pretend that Mr James 's book attains the same degree of enlightenment . |
17 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |
18 | Today 's worship contains the same basic ingredients in most Nonconformist churches , although there are usually some modifications to the accepted pattern . |
19 | For example , an electric toothbrush that I bought states categorically that it should be completely discharged at the end of each month and my portable 's manual gives the same advice . |
20 | Five other victims of Alzheimer 's disease showed the same loss of Meynert cells . |
21 | ‘ He and Rose Lipman 's brother courted the same girl , only Mr Lipman won . |