Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Alejandro and his son all stop horses with five-inch curbs and send them on with spurs about the same length .
2 They compared the average mispricing in the near contract during the stock exchange account which included the delivery date , with that in the next near contract for the same period , and with that for the near contract in previous stock exchange accounts .
3 President Reagan found it difficult to reduce the US budget deficit for the same reasons .
4 Jean Goodwin presented a £300 cheque to Dr. Bathall for Cardiac Support Group , and Heather Trimming presented a cheque for the same amount to Mrs. Todd for the Alton branch of Sight Concern Hampshire .
5 Orwell 's point can be extended , since these writers recognized not only the dissolution of public or social values but also the bankruptcy of private ones : it ought to be remembered that the notion of " personality " reached its apogee in Oscar Wilde during the same period of scientific and social optimism .
6 Abbreviations : If you regularly have to take notes about the same subject , you should find it quite easy to develop your own abbreviations which will make you able to take those notes even more quickly .
7 Only a week ago , she had stood in their butcher 's shop and-completely demolished the reputation of young Carrie Davidson for the same thing : having to get married .
8 Of particular interest will be the information that : 1 ) Michael Smurfit subscribed for £500,000 ( and not £100,000 as reported elsewhere ) shares in UPH , the company that first acquired the site from the liquidator ; 2 ) Larry Goodman is also a shareholder in UPH through Paribas ; 3 ) John Finnegan , the principal in Finnegan Menton , was an advisory in the original sale to UPH ( at £4.4m ) and to Telecom ( at £9.4m ) only 17 months later ; 4 ) The site had been offered to other property developers by Finnegan Menton at £2.7m in 1988 ; 5 ) The sale to the so-called European consortium , i.e. Noel Smyth 's friends , ( at £6.75m ) was only fully concluded days before Telecom paid over £9.4m for the same site ; 6 ) The bank behind the Smyth/Doherty consortium in Ansbacher Bank .
9 If you already pay your employee any money while she receives SMP , for example , occupational maternity pay , this will count towards your SMP payment for the same week .
10 Since so much had been done peacefully through economic change , population increases , emigration and Parliamentary legislation , it is not surprising that ministers , like others , naturally assumed that progress through the same channels would continue ad infinitum .
11 Planting in 1988 came within 15 per cent of the national target , but has fallen now to one-third of that level for the same cost to the taxpayer as in 1988 .
12 Evidently , different dictionaries can provide quite different definitions for the same word .
13 A grim Panorama programme on BBC television on May 17th highlighted the problems of Britain 's increasingly insecure workforce : milkmen working longer hours for the same money , CD stackers sacked just before the two years after which their jobs would be legally protected , betting-shop workers thrown out if they refuse to work evenings .
14 Market demand for it has been much higher than expected and there is n't the manufacturing capacity to build both four and five-speeds for the same application .
15 The insets show log-log plots of ’ against t for the same data sets .
16 ON THE RIGHT BERNARD DURING THE SAME VISIT .
17 I now suggest that the new Government should immediately sell the building for the same price so that it can become a seat of learning for talented Scottish children , such as it then produced of every walk of life .
18 He wrote a Prologue and ‘ The Song of the Wreck ’ for Wilkie Collins 's The Lighthouse , 1855 , and a Prologue for the same author 's The Frozen Deep , 1856 .
19 Various Grand Met managers and executives now take the Institute of Chartered Secretaries ’ exams for the same reason that I did .
20 He was returned in November for Rye instead , and was also elected to the 1679 Parliament for the same seat .
21 ( Hawks wear bells for the same reason as mountain cattle — so you can hear them when you ca n't see them . )
22 He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) .
23 He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) .
24 She said , ‘ We 'll all be pulling up sticks about the same time , then !
25 The Russians learnt to adapt this system to their climate as they adapted roof and dome pitches for the same reason .
26 The Commission has been in existence for the same length of time as the Fair Employment Agency , since 1976 .
27 Asquith replied that the question of mandates was not so simple , but he was opposed to an election for the same reason as Unionists wanted one : — both knew that Home Rule was not a winning policy outside Ireland .
28 It is clear that we can hold partially or severely differing opinions about the same individual in different roles .
29 Indeed , I recall one occasion when I heard him and Tony Benn separately on the radio and they were expressing essentially the same opinions about the same issues .
30 Different foods have different calorie values for the same weight .
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