Example sentences of "same [noun sg] [subord] 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 | ‘ When we do silage work , this engine is barely ticking over and it uses less fuel over the same acreage than a Ford 8210 , ’ 2 he says . |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | An eight-year-old child does not learn the same thing at the same speed as a five-year-old child . |
| 18 | If a road sweeper kills the king he ca n't expect to get the same gratuity as a general . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | News of its closure comes after one hundred and fifty jobs were lost in the same town when a carpet works closed down . |
| 24 | Among soldiers , policemen and civilians there had been 267 deaths in the same period as a result of " terrorist incidents " . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Every MS-DOS computer has a clock that can be used to do the same job as a stop watch . |
| 30 | 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 . |