Example sentences of "[prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the event of two or more applicants for the same franchise , both parties will be able to submit higher bids . |
| 32 | There is also strong pressure for the same action in Armenia , where thousands of angry demonstrators surrounded the Supreme Soviet in Yerevan all night on Monday , because they had refused to abolish the party 's leading role in the republic . |
| 33 | There is now the danger that the same media circus will be dispatched to Sardinia next summer looking for the same headlines which will produce a similar outcome . |
| 34 | The 231 staff were re-employed indefinitely — at cost of £50,000 each — some doing less work for the same money . |
| 35 | It is , of course , possible that factors specific to both economies account for the same movement . |
| 36 | Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason . |
| 37 | He ended up by selling it for £500 to Mr Staples , from whom he originally bought the site for the same sum . |
| 38 | Sub-Saharan Africa continued its decline in per capita income , too , for the same reason as the heavily indebted countries — population increases continued to outstrip modest rates of economic growth . |
| 39 | The former was the obvious clash between Britain 's need for exports to pay her way in the post-war world and the requirement of the rearmament programme , both of which competed for the same scarce skills and resources of the metal-working industries to the detriment of the export trade . |
| 40 | Lithuania should be just as concerned with the emergence of a free Poland , for the same reasons . |
| 41 | Booze companies fear that tobacco 's closest relation may be in for the same treatment : there have been rumours that a directive is being prepared . |
| 42 | It arranged for groups of identically qualified white and black applicants to apply for the same jobs in Chicago . |
| 43 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 44 | Analysts expect Singapore Airlines , the world 's most profitable airline , to announce a healthy net profit of just over S$800m ( $450m ) for the same fiscal year , down from S$1.2 billion the previous year but still not bad . |
| 45 | Stockbrokers , politicians and company chairmen hanker after retail investors for the same , simple reason : they think they are chumps . |
| 46 | Marine Midland , a subsidiary of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank , lost $300m last year for the same reason . |
| 47 | There are celebrated examples of bad communication between the Bank and the IFC ; and the sides have confused clients by offering different prices for the same services . |
| 48 | For the same reasons , political philosophy can be demonstrated . |
| 49 | So , since they claim to know the complete and final story about the nature of mental substance , it is incumbent on them to show that it is impossible for the same consciousness to be transferred from one substance to another . |
| 50 | Unfortunately , the partner does not make use of this opportunity , because he , too ( and for the same reason ) , pretends to be asleep and fears to budge . |
| 51 | It is for the same reasons that I would now support the denationalization of British Rail . |
| 52 | There are not many precedents for the same Secretary of State and the same Permanent Secretary serving together for the best part of six years . |
| 53 | He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension . |
| 54 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 55 | Everybody was here for the same thing to be done to them . |
| 56 | The overall picture which has emerged from the analyses is of more or less consistent use of the same marble quarry for the same elements of the monument , but that a variety of marble types were selected for different purposes . |
| 57 | Outside the Company Office , Charles was given a walking stick and marched up and down the stone courtyard with other officers between the granary in which the platoons were barracked and long low buildings nearby , previously the administrative block and now being used for the same purpose in military terms . |
| 58 | Individual trade unions also reflected this continuous decline throughout the 1920s and early 1930s ; the coal miners ' union declined from 936,653 members in 1921 to 885,789 in 1925 and to 554,015 in 1932 while , for the same dates , respectively , trade union membership in the railway unions fell from 560,875 to 528,764 and 399,184.46 There also appears to have been no let up in the determination to forge a more effective industrial alliance — even though the General Council stopped short of another general strike . |
| 59 | Alternatively , homoeopathic treatment for the same ‘ inability to cope ’ condition has been equally successful . |
| 60 | Albert Schweitzer appealed for the same cause the following year , and in January 1958 Professor Linus Pauling , the Nobel prize-winning chemist , presented the signatures of more than 9,000 scientists to the United Nations secretary-general , Dag Hammarskjöld , warning the world of the genetic dangers of tests and calling for their immediate end — it was this which immediately influenced Sakharov to make the same appeal to Khrushchev . |