Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [prep] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race .
2 In addition , complaints to electricity watchdog Offer in the first quarter of 1993 were down by 44pc compared with the same period of 1992 .
3 The effects will be broadly similar in all aircraft belonging to the same group .
4 Erm , the simulator will be developed er for this aircraft starting at the same time as we enter the production investment phase .
5 However , this investigation used collocations extracted from a domain-specific corpus , and test data taken from the same domain .
6 It is a necessary step if IBM is to remain competitive in networked environments because it enables data to move at the same speed between the CPU and peripherals as it moves over Ethernet .
7 Therefore s 1(1) was contravened when , as happened in the present case , a person caused a computer to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to any program or data held in the same computer .
8 Held , that , in the opinion of the court , in section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1990 the words ‘ causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer , ’ in their plain and ordinary meaning , were not confined to the use of one computer with intent to secure access into another computer ; so that section 1(1) was contravened where a person caused a computer to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to any program or data held in the same computer ( post , pp. 437A–B , C–D , 438A , E–F ) .
9 Wave-producing species shift their frequencies slightly to avoid confusion with nearby fish operating on the same frequency .
10 First quarter results , while down a drastic 80% compared with the same quarter last year , at least showed a profit of $0.8 million , notching up DG 's second profitable quarter in a row and making six profitable quarters out of the last eight .
11 In the three months to the end of April , housing starts rose 16pc compared with the same period in 1992 .
12 Net profits slumped by 41% to $12.3m compared with the same period a year ago .
13 On South Georgia reindeer , introduced from Scandinavia by whalers early in the twentieth century , flourish and appear to be spreading ; horses and sheep introduced to the same island did not survive .
14 On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant .
15 The key to Homoeopathy is that no two people suffer from the same disease .
16 Many people suffer from the same disease of thinking they must be right all the time , and they must push their rightness onto other people .
17 mass forms of musical practice which are based on the musical activity of many people interacting at the same time and in the same way — forms which structure bodily movements and processes , and which enable bodily experience to become an aesthetically mediated pleasure ( ibid : 228 ) .
18 It is also the custom of certain groups who have migrated to Britain to pool resources between kin , either between people living in the same household or sometimes across households ( Anwar , 1985 , pp. 52–5 ; Brah , 1986 ) .
19 One reason may well be that people living in the same locality share , whatever their class position , similar material positions .
20 So , art history only begins after the death of the work , but as long as the work lives , or at least in the first fifty years of its life , it communicates with people living in the same period who have accepted it or rejected it and who have talked about it .
21 For people living in the same area , those in the most expensive properties should pay not more than three times as much — the maximum variation — as those in the least expensive properties .
22 What I mean by tradition involves all those habitual actions , habits and customs , from the most significant religious rite to our conventional way of greeting a stranger , which represent the blood kinship of ‘ the same people living in the same place ’ .
23 it follows from this that ‘ it is characteristic of all unproductive labourers that they are at my command … only to the same extent as I exploit productive labourers … however , my power to employ productive labourers by no means grows in the same proportion as I employ unproductive labourers , but on the contrary diminishes in the same proportion . ’
24 WE had nearly all of the travelling world rugby media staying at the same hotel as the Wallabies and decisions had to be made ’ , he said .
25 ‘ We 're developing a spreadsheet product that will allow a group of people to interact on the same spreadsheet , so people can contribute different ideas , assumptions and scenarios to a common spreadsheet .
26 There is no set pattern for grieving , for just as no two people love in the same way , no two people grieve in the same way .
27 The difference in height between the two groups with means standardised to the same age distribution has already been calculated by analysis of covariance which controls for age ( table II ) .
28 The ability to identify and assess problems , and to understand their effects and limitations on patients can not be learned passively and by rote , if only because no two people respond to the same problem in exactly the same way .
29 Even if people stay in the same rank order , the argument runs that the only way to make ‘ have-nots ’ into ‘ haves ’ is via economic growth , to which high taxation and transfers are seen as inimical .
30 Although the distribution of rural population is no longer synonymous with agricultural employment , most people live in the same locality as their place of employment , and so this chapter considers population and employment as contiguous rather than necessarily related phenomena .
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