Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] [verb] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social groups C2DE still make up 57 per cent of the electorate ; if Labour had enjoyed the same dominance among these voters as do the Tories in social groups ABC1 , they would have swept to power with a big majority . |
| 2 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 3 | So if Luke had contracted the same strain it might explain why he could n't phone her — |
| 4 | Now , unemployment among unskilled black people is six times higher than among whites , because employers have to pay the same rate to both , and they express their prefence by choosing white employees . |
| 5 | He had already become dependent on Richard Arkwright [ q.v. ] for funds ( a loan of £10,000 in 1788 ) but the prosperity of muslins now evaporated , while Oldknow failed to achieve the same mastery of technical perfection in fine-cotton spinning . |
| 6 | Six weeks before the October general election , figures in mid-September showed that inflation had dropped sharply in August , rising only 0.2 per cent , while unemployment had fallen the same month to 16.6 per cent of the active workforce , the lowest level since 1982 . |
| 7 | They , indeed , were the first animals to master flight and they did so some two hundred million years before birds managed to do the same thing . |
| 8 | When women gather to do the same , it is called gossip . |