Example sentences of "same [noun sg] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In our example , estimating the average height of adult males in the British population , would require a sampling fraction of about 1/4,000 , whereas to estimate the same parameter in a population of 200 , a sampling fraction of ¼ , or a sample size of 50 , would be necessary .
2 Rye grass is coarse and flat-leaved , and fulfils the same function in a sward as petrol-like grain spirit in cheap Scotch whisky .
3 They had been fighting on the same side in a war which is often erroneously characterised as an ethnic conflict ; fighting for what the Serb guerrillas call the ‘ Muslim side ’ .
4 Any spreadsheet can include more than one page and you can use commands and formula between and across pages — for example you can write a sum that adds the contents of the same cell in a number of pages as in the example shown here where the fourth page of the spreadsheet summarises three month 's sales collected on the three previous pages .
5 We could implement the same architecture in a number of ways , and some ranges of computers ( such as the IBM 370 range ) are designed to a common architecture but with a radically different physical implementation for each model .
6 Now if we make the mass bigger , put the same engine in a tanker , acceleration would be very small .
7 Craig Wake , Neil Patterson , Davey Evans and Steven Hodgson will fight again at the same venue in a fortnight .
8 The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them .
9 Four of the same name in a Test remains a record to this day , as does the ludicrous fact that three of the players making their debuts for their country in the match had already played Test cricket , but under different colours .
10 ( iii ) So far as article 5(1) itself is concerned , he submitted that it is clearly established by Court of Justice decisions that it reflects the close links created by the contract between the parties thereto , and the need to resolve all difficulties which may arise in connection with the contract in the same court in a country which has a close connection with the case , i.e. the court in the country where the obligation in question has to be performed .
11 ( Richard lost the expensive raincoat the same night in a snooker hall . )
12 On that same day in a letter to The Times the President of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund , announced that work in their laboratories had proved that the danger of contact with cancer patients was negligible — we were not contagious — and that ‘ the importance of early diagnosis , the local character of cancer at its start , and the possibility of permanent cure by early operation are now the accepted basis for the treatment of this disease . ’
13 One may imagine the furore if the Court of Appeal were to take the same stance in a capital case , a contingency happily remote .
14 If the people sense that a vacuum has developed at the ‘ party centre ’ , and the troops are withdrawn , they will fill the same square with the same demand in a matter of hours .
15 They often occupied , with their apprentices and families , the same area in a town , worshipped together and dined together on important occasions .
16 It was like some ghoulish rerun of Sunday afternoon , as if the same sequence in a film was being shot for a second time under a different director .
17 The expansion in the 1950s to developing countries showed , in a classical trial in Madras , that domiciliary chemotherapy in appalling living conditions was as effective as the same regimen in a sanatorium .
18 Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there .
19 It followed a fire at 8:45pm on Wednesday night at the same farm in a shed containing almost six tonnes of straw .
20 Yeah but the thing is , it 's something that we 've got to think for life really , or we 're just gon na be in the same situation in a couple of years that we wan na something a bit bigger .
21 For example , it might seem curious that a member of the RICS could be a director of a commercial company offering a range of services to the public , yet not be permitted to occupy the same position in a company offering the very skill for which he has been trained .
22 There is no real difficulty in accepting the functional equivalence of variants such as lt ] and [ ? ] if they can occupy the same position in a set of words ( such as the syllable final position in bat , pit , hot ) without replacement of one by the other altering the semantic form of any item .
23 People who superficially are in the same position in a family — brothers and sisters , mother and fathers — are likely to define their responsibilities very differently and , perhaps more importantly , to be expected by others to define them differently .
24 Brawl The pot boiled over against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park that same year in a brawl of a game that resulted in bans for Gareth Chilcott , Graham Dawe , Wade Dooley and Hill , who was blamed for failing to exercise his captaincy correctly .
25 Earlier in the month 806 Squadron 's three remaining serviceable Fulmars had been flown from Malta to Egypt via El Adem , each aircraft carrying three aircrew ; the ground party sailed for the same destination in a destroyer .
26 While Boris Yeltsin has struggled to control the Russian parliament for a year , Kalmykia 's 30-year-old president , Kirsan Ilyumzhinov , has solved a local version of the same problem in a day .
27 If Wigan youngster Grindley can produce one impressive lap of the Olympic Stadium in the Golden Gala meeting , selectors seem likely to pick him to run the event in the same arena in a fortnight 's time .
28 Bear 's The Venging ( £4.99 ) is out at the same time in A format .
29 Thromboxane production by platelets stimulated with arachidonic acid showed a significant positive correlation with the fasting plasma glucose concentration obtained at the same time in a group of 15 diabetics studied by Halushka et al ( 1981 b ) .
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