Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , if the arbitrage portfolios tend to contain roughly the same subset of shares , there will be little direct pressure on the prices of the remaining constituents of the index .
2 Broker Cazenove , responsible for marketing the UK tranche of the share sale , failed to drum up the same level of enthusiasm exhibited in other centres .
3 Edward Simpson , former Deputy Permanent Secretary at the DES , and ironically in charge of planning for almost a decade , has argued cogently the same case for more resources for primary schools as a result of the introduction of Local Management of Schools .
4 As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang as singles players , but neither has made quite the same impact as yet .
5 Vogts is expected to field largely the same team at Ibrox which played against Uruguay .
6 This argument , which Foucault derives from Deleuze , although at the same time he tellingly invokes Sartre 's theoretical formulation designed to solve exactly the same problem , provides a way of avoiding the incommensurability of the relation of the event to the concept by allowing ‘ the disjunctive affirmation of both ’ — thus solving the problem that the concept , as a part of the language of generality , will inevitably travesty the event 's singularity :
7 And there was perhaps not so much to laugh at in that ; for by North 's trial , two and a half years after the breaking of the scandal , the overwhelming majority of Americans had come to feel much the same way .
8 I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess .
9 Ace was n't willing to trust Dubois further than she could throw him , since he seemed to use much the same methods as their enemies ; perhaps that meant he was no better than them .
10 [ He will say later , ‘ If I 'd relaxed the standard there I 'd have had umpteen other people knocking on the door wanting to do precisely the same thing to save on trade effluent charges . ’ ]
11 Thus , Members of Parliament may be said to occupy much the same position with respect to the nationalised industries as do shareholders with respect to a joint stock company .
12 Of course , once children give up their single-level assumption , they accept the fact that terms at different levels such as dog and animal or bear and toy may be used to pick out the same object .
13 If you 're going to keep up the same pattern of commitments the answer is that the army is already stretched as it clan be and so are the other two services and this is putting a terrific strain on the individual servicemen and their families .
14 And I think we 're going to have exactly the same thing with this opting out system .
15 Especially when all the lenders seem to have roughly the same mortgage interest rate on offer to borrowers most of the time ?
16 I have no doubt that those same consumers , when exercising their choice about what to buy , will want to be absolutely sure that products imported to the United Kingdom have had to undergo precisely the same levels of checks and monitoring as products exported from the United Kingdom .
17 At the same time , the bladder becomes less able to sterilise urine and the urine is less concentrated , so more fluids are needed to take away the same amount of waste ( see incontinence , pages 70 to 76 ) .
18 Laughing and laughin' or [ ga:d ] and [ go:d ] can more convincingly be shown to be used to say referentially the same thing than any pair of postulated synonymous syntactic constructions such as the liquor store was broken into versus they broke into the liquor store .
19 I once spent six months as a PR person , and I 'm not getting caught twice the same way .
20 Although there was some division of Conservative opinion , it appeared that a majority both of the Cabinet and of the backbenchers favoured either the acceptance of the bill or a Government measure doing roughly the same job in its place .
21 If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price .
22 Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness .
23 English seems to obtain much the same effect with the to infinitive as subject .
24 He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him .
25 I would have done exactly the same thing in her shoes , ’ says Joe .
26 It 'll be interesting if we could find out erm actually what prices are because if he 's a good he would have said exactly the same thing to .
27 Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves …
28 They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before .
29 Sir you 'll have seen the County Planning Officer 's own report on these matters and you 'll have seen exactly the same comments which I 've made contained in that report .
30 The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all .
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