Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen . |
| 2 | There half an inch of rain has fallen in the same period . |
| 3 | Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity . |
| 4 | Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population . |
| 5 | More recent authority has come to the same conclusion : see Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent [ 1965 ] 1 QB 623 per Pearson LJ and Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 per Megaw LJ . |
| 6 | It is interesting that recent research has come to the same conclusions as Golding as to the usefulness of such modes of thought : The deployment of simile , underlexicalisation and metaphor thus makes a major contribution to the exposition of the novel 's thematic concern with the linked development of thought and language in the people . |
| 7 | Here I use her hypotheses as set out in her paper ‘ Some Mutual Interactions Between Organizations and Their Members ’ as well as others she has written on the same theme . |
| 8 | She has written in the same magazine ( June 1987 ) on the Book of Exodus , warning that a reading of the Bible as literature , rather than as sacred text , ‘ can not lift heavenward ’ . |
| 9 | The number claiming SB has risen over the same period from three million to just under five million ( figures from CPAG ) . |
| 10 | 4.5 In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC 174 ( per Lord Scarman giving the main speech with which the rest of their Lordships agreed ) the House of Lords re-affirmed what Lord Blackburn had said over 100 years ago : " the principle of the law is that compensation should as nearly as possible put the party who has suffered in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong " ( Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co ( 1880 ) 5 App Cas 25 , 39 ) . |
| 11 | In linking the resourcing of the school library to specific curriculum developments , and in making grants only to those schools whose plans comply with specified criteria , the local authority has acted in the same way as such central government agencies as the Department of Education and Science ( DES ) and the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) . |
| 12 | Although the materials have been changing the industry has stayed in the same places . |
| 13 | It is difficult to quantify buying patterns , but I can say that American buying has dipped in the same way that European and non-European buying has dipped . |
| 14 | Moreover , the P cepacia problem has emerged at the same time as social networks have developed between adult patients with CF , and their families ; many individuals have derived great mutual benefit from these contacts , which provide for most of their social activity . |
| 15 | Hitherto , although the structure of the motion has become increasingly complex , the time scale of the velocity fluctuations has remained of the same order as the period of the initial wave . |
| 16 | A portrait of a child by Luis Paret y Alcazar ( 1746–1799 ) which has remained in the same family since it was painted is expected to sell for more than Pta40 million ( £220,000 ; $429,000 ) . |
| 17 | Its site has not altered and the chancel arch ( the division between the parishioners ' area [ the nave ] and the rector 's area [ the chancel ] ) has remained in the same position for 1000 years or more , notwithstanding additions , alterations , and demolitions . |
| 18 | The only year where they coincide is nineteen twenty , the great erm influenza epidemic actually killed more people than the first world war , and er as you 'll see , despite increasing trends in health care which have reduced the overall rate , the difference in death rate between males and females has remained in the same or , if anything , widened slightly in recent years . |
| 19 | Such an event normally takes us to Dartmoor or Exmoor , has run on the same basis for the last few years and is planned to the last minute — so why the meeting ? |
| 20 | We have just noted how local politics in Britain has recently become more diversified , but , as Chapter 4 pointed out , this has happened at the same time as political power has become increasingly centralized . |
| 21 | Milton has lived in the same stable all the time he has been with the Whitakers . |
| 22 | For 18 years he has lived in the same house in London 's Gospel Oak , though he could easily afford the neighbouring and more upmarket Hampstead . |
| 23 | After the hearing Mrs Todd , who has lived in the same house for 27 years , said she had no plans to move . |
| 24 | Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life . |
| 25 | Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life . |
| 26 | The Kampuchean Communist Party , first called the Khmer Rouge by Prince Sihanouk , has existed under the same leadership since the 1950s , has deep roots in Cambodia , and is not about to disappear . |
| 27 | A woman retiring at 60 will get a lower pension from a PP than a man would at 65 , even if she has paid in the same amount over the same number of years . |
| 28 | Now he is 44 and something of a veteran in a championship where only his former Ibrox colleague , Tommy McLean , has lasted in the same job for longer . |
| 29 | Ben had been nine when he 'd gone to the same school , he reminded her . |
| 30 | We 'd started at the same time . |