Example sentences of "the same [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
2 | People could speak English before there was universal literacy , and in the same way a child learns to speak long before he learns to read and write . |
3 | In the same way a temple which was situated at the top of a flight of steps might be shown on top of steps , though the number of steps on the coin would normally be fewer than in reality . |
4 | After flushing out food residues they may be brushed with hot alkali degreaser solution in the same way a chest freezer is tackled . |
5 | The tactile grooming experience also appears to be enjoyed in much the same way a dog likes to be scratched and stroked , and many predatory species forgo the chance of a quick meal in favour of a good grooming allowing the tiny cleaner to even clamber around inside their mouths without harm . |
6 | In just the same way a lot of your friends may choose not to believe in God … or Jesus … or angels … or evil spirits , and they may even try to convince you that they are right ! |
7 | And , of course , in the same way a student going on to university or polytechnic may immediately make use of some of the Wissenschaft , the actual knowledge , he has acquired at school . |
8 | In the same way a horse may want to touch a person that it likes . |
9 | I felt the same way a horse must have when confronted with a steam engine . |
10 | In the same poll a year ago , the figure stood at 79pc . |
11 | They convey to someone who belongs to the same culture a lot of information about the person who is wearing or carrying them . |
12 | Answering the same question a number of times is a useful exercise in showing how improvements can be made in the way in which you present the facts to the examiner . |
13 | The respondent , without authority , keyed commands into a computer and thereby obtained by means of the same computer a discount , to which he was not entitled , on goods being purchased at a supplier . |
14 | It comes on the same day a consortium , including Central , took financial control of ITV 's national news service , ITN . |
15 | On the same day a water bill was approved which covered water-related projects in 17 western states . |
16 | On the same day a committee was established to verify the mandate of each delegate . |
17 | On the same day a Shop Window 92 Shore Event will take place in front of Middlesbrough Civic Centre , including a march and displays by the Royal Marine Band of the Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland . |
18 | On the same day a ceremony was held in Berlin at which the three Western generals at the Allied Kommandatura ( the Soviet union having withdrawn from the four-power control commission in 1948 ) relinquished their responsibility for the city , while the four powers held a joint ceremony at the Glienecke Bridge between East and West Berlin . |
19 | Hong Kong 's partially elected Legislative Council passed on the same day a motion calling for amendments , particularly to increase provisions for democratic representation and to limit the circumstances in which emergency powers could be assumed by the Chinese authorities . |
20 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |
21 | On the same day a group of 26 Federal Assembly deputies sent a protest to the European Commission for Human Rights about the method of screening used , which was described as being carried out without proper legal basis . |
22 | The same day a woman lost a finger after her ring was caught in machinery at the Sun Valley poultry firm in Hereford . |
23 | Later the same day a meeting in Brussels of EC Foreign Ministers ( excluding Dumas who was not present ) declared that they " regret to have to conclude that the conditions for a new European initiative do not exist " . |
24 | Three years earlier , on the conclusion of an Anglo-Dutch peace treaty , it had already voted the same man a gold chain and a medal worth another 6,000 . |
25 | Almost at the same time a loud-voiced and unpopular Dominican priest made an outspoken attack against all mathematicians and Galileo supporters . |
26 | He was a straightforward patriot , and , most of all , a man of action , who was at the same time a man of natural sensitivity towards suffering . |
27 | At the same time a reforestation telethon will be broadcast live via satellite and by radio around the world . |
28 | A rift has opened between realism and something beyond , and at the same time a link has been forged between Dostoevsky 's favourite phrase , the deeper realism , and my own apocalyptic naturalism . |
29 | This , it is claimed , provides at the same time a clue as to the meaning of fiction ; for fiction really is the result of treating that which can exist only derivatively , or " parasitically " , as if it existed in its own right . |
30 | At the same time a Ministry subsidy was introduced on the cost of cartridges used for rabbit and pigeon clearance . |