Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 Women even cut their hair in the same style .
2 Had the two been at their prime in the same era Scotland 's midfield would have made Dirty Harry look like a wimp .
3 If the Liberals had increased their vote by the same percentage as Labour , Neil Kinnock would sleep tonight in Downing Street .
4 The shepherd ‘ pulls ’ the wool from his ‘ pretty lambs ’ , an experience which I imagine would not be too pleasant for the creatures but to him it is as if the sheep offer their wool with the same eagerness as he offers his gifts .
5 One other problem is that there is an assumption that everyone will practice their religion in the same way .
6 You know , she 'd say , they cook their cabbage in the same water as the bacon .
7 The chemicals company , ICI , which has 10 per cent of the world market in CFCs , undertook to end their manufacture by the same date .
8 In comparison to their parent of the same sex , those who responded to the questionnaire were more likely to be engaged in non-manual occupations ( difference 4.2% to 28% for men and 2.7% to 28.7% for women ) .
9 Both wanted to extend their influence in the same region .
10 In the predominantly German districts of northwest Pomerania , however , 14 of the 34 districts recorded a decline in their population in the same period .
11 Oliver Napier of the Alliance party thereupon wrote an open letter to the people of the Republic calling their attention to the same matters .
12 For even if we achieve the objective of a full franchise then the purpose of that full franchise will not work for disabled people if they do n't have full access to polling stations , they only then have the alternative of using postal or proxy votes and not exercising their franchise in the same way that able-bodied people er will do and their full right are part of the measure that I 'm seeking the house to agree that I should pursue .
13 So a wild horse will learn to ask for food in the same way as a domestic horse that it may be stabled with , and older foals learn to copy their mothers , and demand their oats with the same imperious neigh .
14 In both 1845 and 1862 they were encouraged to assist their education by the same means , and the 1870 Act created school boards and the London Schools Board .
15 Were the rays to collect their water in the same way , it would be full of mud and sand .
16 The proportion of issues in dollars dropped in 1990 to 39.5% from 56% in 1989 , while yen bonds doubled their share in the same period , to 12% .
17 Nucella , as we have seen , is a genus of temporate intertidal thaids , feeding for preference on barnacles and mussels ( which they attack by boring a hole through the shell of their victim and subsequently inserting their proboscis through the same hole in order to feed ) , and lacking a planktonic phase in their life cycle .
18 By identifying gaps in their documentation in the same way as .
19 First , because the defendants being an emanation of the Crown , which is the source and fountain of justice , are in my opinion bound to maintain the highest standards of probity and fair dealing , comparable to those which the courts , which derive their authority from the same source and fountain , impose on the officers under their control : see In re Tyler [ 1907 ] 1 K.B .
20 Erm in the American system of government the state governments draw their authority from the same source as the federal government , that is the constitution of the United States .
21 Students will already know that there are jobs in work areas such as Electronics and Physiotherapy where the subject requirements are quite specific and those who decide to enrol for one of these courses will have effectively chosen their career at the same time .
22 Fish are not capable of establishing a relationship with their owner in the same way as dogs and cats , but I 'm convinced that my Koi can distinguish me from other people approaching the pond .
23 Horses out riding can show their intolerance for the same daily routine and their need for excitement .
24 Customers of Tamworth can now dispose of their rubbish at the same time as doing their shopping , as there are now recycling facilities in the car park .
25 Soldiers of the Second Battalion of the Light Infantry Regiment carried the body of their colleague into the same church where he was baptised just over eighteen years ago .
26 He swigged his champagne with such abandon that Ruth knew he had swallowed Maria Luisa 's explanation of their affair with the same ease as she had at first .
27 For some types of find , scientific methods are useful in the process of analysis , but most specialists begin their analysis in the same basic way .
28 Having decided on the story , theme or music , choreographers should consider some vital rules of theatre and construct their ballet in the same way that authors and composers work out their books and compositions .
29 And many instrumental solos in popular music owe their form to the same conceptualization .
30 For although the chairman of the University Grants Committee , Edward Parkes , may have received his well-earned knighthood at the end of the year — in a batch meanly thin , as usual , on honours for the scientific community — many of the nation 's academics will never see their profession in the same rosy light .
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