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

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1 Two in five employers said that a woman the same age and with the same skills as a man would be more likely to be turned down because of her age .
2 Technically the Flydaway has much the same characteristics as a tram .
3 Out of this new structure evolved the idea that Robson Rhodes needed a chief executive to come in from outside and run the company on the same lines as a plc .
4 Is the Minister aware that the Government are cramming more and more university students into the same buildings as a consequence of the fact that they are trying to have people obtain degrees on the cheap ?
5 The official receiver whilst acting as receiver of the estate has the same powers as a receiver appointed by the High Court and is entitled to dispose of any perishable goods or any other goods the value of which is likely to be diminished if they are not disposed of ( s 287(2) ) .
6 Although the linguist who undertakes the analysis of discourse has ultimately the same aims as a linguist who uses ‘ system-sentences ’ in his grammatical description of a language , there are important methodological differences involved in the two approaches .
7 Once more , he was telling the same jokes before a show went on the air or was finally taped .
8 Abbott became one of the founding members of the Open Door Council in 1926 , dedicated to securing that ‘ a woman shall be free to work and be protected as a worker on the same terms as a man … and to secure for a woman , irrespective of marriage or childbirth , the right at all times to decide whether or not she shall engage in paid work ’ .
9 With the best will in the world a bassoon can not begin to express itself in the same terms as a viola da gamba and when two of the three melodic parts are conceived for strings a precious dimension is lost by substituting woodwind .
10 The task is directed to a user using the same options as a mail message .
11 Mr Powell answered : ‘ You do n't have to live under the same laws as a foreigner in order to trade with him .
12 By the making of a new will or of a codicil or other writing executed with the same formalities as a will , so far as such later document is inconsistent with the will .
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