Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instrument of war was the national State and it mattered little whether that State was called the beachhead of a world working class or simply an ordinary republic : the disciplines remained the same . |
| 2 | The institutions remain the same . |
| 3 | She was now looking round at both their houses distastefully , though the houses looked the same as usual , snow on the roofs , snow a foot deep over the yards , snow poised on every twig and leaf , a cloud from the central-heating chimney hovering calmly over each residence . |
| 4 | When the researchers re-imaged the same area , they found they had created small groups of three atoms , arranged in a triangle , which appeared higher than their neighbours . |
| 5 | What evidence there is from the USA suggests that local authorities there are simply not prepared , either physically or mentally , to deal with the new service demands of the exurban inmigrants ( Green , 1983 ) although work in Canada , using a game-playing approach , has tended to suggest that the inmigrants have the same service demands as the existing inhabitants ( Joseph and Smit , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | a pelican crossing has the signals have the same meaning as traffic lights except that the flashing amber signal will follow the red stop signal , when amber light is flashing you must give |
| 7 | Since all the schools follow the same teaching plan and since the content of the programme followed by children in the early years is less demanding academically than that followed by adolescents , it is easy to argue that teachers in the lower grades require less training . |
| 8 | Changes in the marginal distribution of the response variable will always produce changes in differences in proportions , even if the cells are still distributed in the same proportion ; if , for example , the supply of selective school places doubled but the class composition of the schools remained the same , d would change . |
| 9 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |
| 10 | I mean this is personally for our place , and I 'm sure all the shops did the same . |
| 11 | ‘ The Guards have the same requirements for recruits as any infantry or Royal Armoured Corps regiment ’ , he said . |
| 12 | Even in some cases where two or three of the Evangelists record the same event , their accounts differ considerably ( for example , the resurrection narratives ) . |
| 13 | The words mean the same things whatever they may be , so why should one be nicer or nastier than the other ? |
| 14 | The words stay the same , but we are forced to ask awkward questions about how much their meaning has altered . |
| 15 | As regards the numbering of their years , the Jews used the same era as the Seleucids of Syria from the time they came under their rule , in the second century BC , until the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD . |
| 16 | The dots represent the original data ; the lines represent the same function ( equation ( 1 ) ) transformed by using known anisotropy to scale x . |
| 17 | I think the Arabs have the same rights as the Jews and I think it is a tragedy of history that a people who are refugees make new refugees . |
| 18 | I think the Arabs have the same rights as the Jews and I think it is a tragedy of history that a people who are refugees make new refugees . |
| 19 | Well the supermarkets do the same thing do n't they ? |
| 20 | The eccentricities of the judges have the same stupefying unfunniness — however witty — as those of a schoolteacher . |
| 21 | Now they 've done such a good round we 're a bit nervous , but I think we 'll be OK provided the winds stay the same |
| 22 | I know little of military operations , but I am sure they have similar operational problems and that the crews have the same worries . |
| 23 | ‘ The more witnesses come forward and the descriptions remain the same , the more I am now convinced that the abductors must have caused his death , ’ he said . |
| 24 | I recall some of the chaps doing the same at Oundle . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ threatening or abusive or insulting words or behaviour or distribute or display to another person any writing , sign or other visible representation , namely … which is threatening , abusive or insulting ’ The phrases mean the same as under the old Section 5 Public Order Act 1936 . |
| 26 | Deer and sheep can be induced to mate by artificially shortening the days , while lengthening the days has the same effect on ferrets . |
| 27 | If the end of the line is fixed and the angles remain the same , then the conclusion can be made that a straight line links the various points . |
| 28 | What we may have to do is actually balance the air conditioning 's needs up to suit the building , if you like , rather than individuals concerned , and then we 'll have to address the individuals concerns the same , in terms of moving the desk , or moving the person if they 're in a draft . |
| 29 | Smaller animals on the grasslands prefer to hide away when they are not feeding ; so the prairie dogs , which are rodents , live in vast , colonial underground burrows in North America ( with burrowing owls for occasional company ) , and the sousliks do the same in Asia . |
| 30 | Each edition was reset , but the contents remained the same , as follows : Vol. i : ‘ Our Parish ’ ( in 6 chaps . ) , |