Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers .
2 The village rector asked the mourners to try to show the same love that brought them to the service …
3 It may be that if Mr X enters into the guarantee the property can be purchased with perhaps the non-resident trust having to borrow to purchase the same .
4 Since transmission is largely on a foal-to-foal basis it is good policy to avoid using the same paddocks for nursing mares and their foals in successive years .
5 Unless the two men kidnapped yesterday are speedily released , it will be difficult for Michel Dufour , the chief ICRC delegate in Lebanon , to avoid taking the same decision once again .
6 Erm , why 's that like that , they do n't tell you how to correct it , so often , you know , you do n't , you do n't know how to avoid making the same mistake next time .
7 On the one hand , there is certainly a resistance to change and to new ideas ; academics appear quite happy to continue teaching the same old syllabuses as if there had been no ‘ explosion ’ ( Dr P 's word ) in English studies ; at the same time , there is no resistance to allowing other people within the same department to teach quite different things to students , and to do quite different types of research .
8 There was no guarantee that districts gaining funds would continue to wish to buy the same quantity of complex and expensive treatments that the unit specialised in .
9 ‘ concluded that the submissions raised in it were not of sufficient substance to justify referring the same to the judiciary or altering the first review date .
10 And the writer has to keep conjuring the feeling in him or herself , to keep it there , if he/she is to hope to do the same for the readers .
11 But do remember to make use of the facilities on offer — for example , you can use the Copy command to save typing the same or similar details .
12 Past mistakes are , of course , bygone , but for the sake of the next generation , we can ill afford to continue making the same mistakes over again .
13 It is possibly true , and though the challenges presented to the Western bishops on the nature of the Church ( Donatism ) and about grace and free will ( Pelagianism ) were serious enough , theological debate rarely seems to have aroused the same passions in the West as it did in the East .
14 It might sound dull to advise using the same pale colour for walls , floors and larger pieces of furniture but this treatment will make the most confined area seem lighter and airier and will make bulky objects like sofas , armchairs and beds recede into the background .
15 It makes no sense for two such complex systems of financial support to attempt to meet the same needs other than in the most exceptional circumstances .
16 He seems to have occupied the same position with regard to other royal servants in Wales , men like John Donne , Hugh Huntley and John Milewater , who were associated with the duke on a commission of 6 January 1470 to enquire into rebellion in south Wales .
17 He seems to have occupied the same position with regard to other royal servants in Wales , men like John Donne , Hugh Huntley and John Milewater , who were associated with the duke on a commission of 6 January 1470 to enquire into rebellion in south Wales .
18 It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science .
19 The house next door , similar in style , did not seem to have suffered the same mutilation .
20 Most of your clothes seem to have suffered the same fate as the rest of your belongings , Fran .
21 Details of any such contract conditions will be supplied by us on request , but you will be deemed to have accepted the same as part of the terms of this order , whether such request has been made by you or not .
22 Can any conductor , though , be said to have made the same impact on recent musical history as that made by Bach or Beethoven or Wagner in the past ?
23 She very rarely puts a foot wrong — and she is not likely to have made the same mistake twice .
24 But in case he shall die in my Lifetime then I desire that my Coffin be made by his Son in like manner as his Father was to have made the same for which I Will he shall be paid the Sum of Ten Pounds and that in such Case the said Legacy of Ten Pounds so given to his father shall cease and not be paid .
25 Young academics and critics do not seem to have had the same difficulty , or if they do , are not letting on .
26 The February and October revolutions seem to have had the same effect on the Russian colonists as the expulsion of the British had on the American colonists in the eighteenth century — a removal of all restraint on the ambitions to despoil native lands and assets .
27 It does not seem to have had the same connotations as the contemporary concept of adolescence .
28 So there would be no way in which different regions in the early universe could have come to have had the same temperature as each other , unless for some unexplained reason they happened to start out with the same temperature .
29 Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do .
30 A spokesman said : ‘ While we have n't had more people in than last year , we are pleased that the number seems to have stayed the same . ’
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