Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the effect of Rule 4.90 in reducing Mr Sawar 's liability to BCCI from £600,000 to £300,000 corresponded to a payment of the same amount by Mr Sawar to BCCI , thus reducing the total indebtedness of Fashions , Wholesale and Mr Sawar to £300,000 . |
| 2 | The contracting industry of the 1950s had not nurtured new talent or new ideas , as happened in the 1930s and 1940s , so that , apart from the Free Cinema directors , it was mostly a case of the same old people trying to make films . |
| 3 | A hierarchical court structure is essential to give to a particular case a level of authority ; this will determine whether or not the case can be overruled by a decision of the same or a higher court , and which courts , if any , are bound by its decision . |
| 4 | ‘ Please sir , a pen , ’ said another , followed by a chorus of the same cry . |
| 5 | Now I have begun to understand , bad pay , rotten conditions and this insufferable contempt shown to us , it is a part of the same picture . |
| 6 | This ignoring of non-European high culture and history may not seem important , but it is a part of the same ethos which permits the everyday culture of Asian life to be stamped on so viciously in schools . |
| 7 | Chichester Harbour straddles the county boundary with Hampshire and the harbours of Langstone and Portsmouth ( also Hampshire ) are a part of the same ecological and physical unit . |
| 8 | Do n't they realize we 're a part of the same movement ? |
| 9 | ‘ But let us not forget that when most of us were children Bradford and Leicester were themselves Darlingtons , recognisably a part of the same country as ours . ’ |
| 10 | In 1986 he was twenty-nine , a graduate of Prince Albert College , London ( 1978 ) and a PhD of the same university ( 1985 ) . |
| 11 | As she got to her feet he looked underneath her , remembering the equipment cows had , and saw that she had a semblance of the same thing , although nothing like so dangly as a cow 's , but quite satisfactorily dripping at that moment with what he supposed was milk . |
| 12 | However as in the sentry the message of hope is a false one and the soldiers died anyway , while the snow in the phrase ‘ until this morning and this snow ’ is assuredly a description of the same it would also appear to be in contrast to the warm sun as death is the contrast to life and the day the soldier is brought out the sun fails to wake him and there is snow . |
| 13 | He was wearing a variation of court dress — a coat of midnight blue which had no fastenings but which was secured by a sash of the same colour — which indicated that he had spent the morning in council with the civil servants who were charged with overseeing the administration of some aspect of the government . |
| 14 | WE have been asked by the owners of the Lal Qila restaurants in Bath Street , Southport and Red Lion Buildings , Liverpool Road North , Maghull , to make it clear that they have no connection with a takeaway of the same name which was the subject of court proceedings reported in Wednesday 's Echo . |
| 15 | Now she would be sent to a convent of the same order in Dublin where she would do a secretarial course . |
| 16 | I have sat on the opposite bank of a river to where a match was being fished and seen barbel breaking line time after time , and the reaction has always been the same : the tying on of a hook of the same size to the same line that barbel had already treated with the contempt it deserved . |
| 17 | … courts have not been so strict in denying the validity of consideration where a moral duty was performed , as they have in holding agreements invalid as against public policy where they contemplated a violation of the same duty . |
| 18 | The survey requires , too , an institutionalisation of the individual as an autonomous member of civil society with rights and obligations and a conception of the same individual as a distinctive agent in the social process . |
| 19 | Her small shape is gone , for ever , replaced by a void of the same dimensions . |
| 20 | A Halifax spokesman stressed the £20m provision on loans to the Kentish development Burrell 's Wharf was highly prudent and would not necessarily lead to a loss of the same magnitude . |
| 21 | This sum will be doubled up to £80,000 , if both husband and wife die as a result of the same accident . |
| 22 | And if you and your spouse are covered under the Plan and you both die as a result of the same accident the Plan will pay double the normal individual death benefit , making a total of up to £160,000 paid direct to your estate . |
| 23 | Bornstein ( 1979 ) provides an extended analysis of the different systems which have been devised as a result of the same pressures described above for Signed Swedish . |
| 24 | Other essays are damaged by what appears to be an opposite problem , but is actually a result of the same lack of structure : they read as if they are trying to solve two or more problems at once . |
| 25 | That of course assumes that everything spent on transport in England is a national cost and that the policing of London is a national cost , but we say that once we settle down and allocate the nature of expenditure as between the two countries , disallowing the cost of running the southern region of the railways as a United Kingdom expense , it is perfectly clear , as the Scottish newspapers have often demonstrated under the heading ’ Scotching the Myth ’ — Scottish Television has demonstrated the same in a programme of the same name — that there is no question of Scotland being subsidised in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 26 | Weaving does take longer than knitting a piece of the same size , but it takes very little longer to weave a long row than a short one , so this can save a considerable amount of time . |
| 27 | ‘ I even had a piece of the same wood specially stained for you . ’ |
| 28 | Those who saw him freeze into immobility against Mike Tyson before crashing to the canvas in the first round in July 1990 believe they are seeing now a repeat of the same symptoms . |
| 29 | A Conservative government would mean a repeat of the same , stale policies which brought economic insecurity , privatised and underfunded public services and increased social division . |
| 30 | One way would be to take the cost of buying a car of the same age and then trying to quantify the cost of running it throughout the notice period . |