Example sentences of "the same [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Among the customs prevalent in gaols were those such as garnish , fotting or chummage , which all gave the same message to newcomers — ‘ pay or strip ’ .
2 You resist change ( ie travel the same way to work , read the same newspaper , wear the same sort of clothes , have fixed routines/habits , stick to familiar foods , stick to the same circle of friends ) .
3 One is bound up with the fact that we do indeed suppose that there is some set of types of circumstances , each type related in the same way to startings-to-work of the wipers .
4 The Commission argued that , even if the requirements in question formally applied in the same way to nationals of the host state , in reality they were discriminatory in terms of both their purpose and their effects , since the overwhelming majority of British nationals involved in the fishing industry were likely to fulfil the residence requirement .
5 The Commission , the Spanish Government and the applicants in the main proceedings in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) argue , however , that even though , formally , those requirements apply in the same way to nationals , they are in reality discriminatory as regards both their objectives and their effects , since the very great majority of British citizens fulfil them automatically .
6 In line with the announcement at the halfway stage , the 1992 dividend total is halved to 5.25p , after a final cut by the same proportion to 3.25p .
7 McVitie 's , UB 's European biscuit business , increased sales by 5 per cent to £831 million and operating profits by the same percentage to £111.8 million .
8 And she was in tears as he said : ‘ All of us owe the same debt to Glenys because if there was a complete partnership , this is it .
9 Less than 200ft from the lifeboat 's starboard side lay the Cathedral Rock , the same distance to port jutted the Ebb Carr Rocks .
10 From the summit of Pillar continue ( south westwards ) to Scoat Fell ( 0.75 miles ) and then ( south eastwards ) to Red Pike ( 0.75 miles ) before heading in the same direction to Dore Head ( 0.75 miles ) — the gap between Red Pike and Yewbarrow .
11 This contrasts with the YTM procedure ( shown in ( 5.10 ) ) , in which all cash flows are discounted by the same yield to maturity .
12 This capacity to generate the same response to part of a pattern as to the whole of it is one of the merits of network systems ( see chapter 7 ) .
13 Mr Fowler said that while the existing law provided that it was automatically unfair to dismiss anyone for not being a union member , the bill completed the outlawing of the closed shop by extending the same protection to people applying for jobs .
14 The abbot of Fécamp put the same question to Ivo of Chartres , who produced the text of Pope Hyginus , misquoted by Anselm but available in the Canon Law collection of Burchard of Worms .
15 Now , having found an K such that the answer to Question 2 is yes , we apply the same question to X itself .
16 Conner Peripherals Inc has reorganised around four market groups — an OEM products group to market disk drives , tape drives , storage management software and storage systems to computer manufacturers , a distribution products group to market the same products to distributors and resellers , a storage systems group , formerly Maynard Electronics , will market bundled hardware and software primarily to corporate end users , and a software products group will market storage management software to personal computer users and network administrators through retail and OEM channels and build on its product development relationships with major operating system companies .
17 He blamed the European Community being preoccupied with keeping farm gate prices down without applying the same rules to pubs and shops .
18 By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth .
19 The same tendency to growth is seen , less strikingly , in Spain and some of the smaller States , notably Savoy-Piedmont .
20 the simple straightforward statement ‘ I am cold ’ and I just wondered whether , you know , extrapolating backwards whether we 're doing the same disservice to Shakespeare .
21 And I just wondered whether , you know extrapolating backwards , whether we 're doing the same disservice to Shakespeare .
22 Waters Lunniss , the stockbroker owned by the Norwich & Peterborough Building Society , will allow up to four members of a family with the same surname to pool all their shares and pay commission of only 1½ per cent or £10 a person , whichever is greater .
23 Give the same treatment to gravel and ash paths .
24 Residents of these homes should have the same rights to choice of general practitioner and to NHS care as any other person .
25 An India in essentially the same relationship to Britain as the great white dominions which had fought by her side in the world war , voluntarily allied rather than involuntarily subjected , could only be , it was reasoned , an asset to British prestige .
26 Secondly , the same relationship to sex offending could be posited with regard to the reporting in popular newspapers as is adjudged with the supposed link to video nasties .
27 In the sense that apple has the same relationship to fruit as dog has to animal ( i.e.' — is an immediate taxonym of — ' — see chapter 6 for the meaning of taxonym ) , that relation is of the sort known as ‘ many-to-one ’ .
28 For instance , one of the signs that extremely and fast are united in a grammatical construction is the fact that the sequence extremely fast can be replaced by a single element , say , old , which has the same relationship to cars as does extremely fast ; furthermore , this substitution causes no grammatical change in the rest of the sentence .
29 Later in 1925 , Gleizes wrote again : ‘ … what will come out of Cubism … will be the painting as an emotive event in itself with nothing descriptive about it , having the quality of an object and the same relationship to nature . ’
30 Calligraphy — which literally translates as ‘ beautiful writing ’ — bears the same relationship to typography as post and lintel architecture does to the classical orders .
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