Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the same [noun sg] as " in BNC.

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1 In the early years of the reign of Henry VIII the Council , benefiting from the inexperience of the new King , probably gained weight while pursuing much the same business as before .
2 The ages range from 4300 Ma to 4900 Ma , and dust from maria sites displays much the same range as dust from highland sites .
3 The Higgs boson , Minister , plays much the same role as the photon , but in a different context .
4 However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) .
5 The fact that ‘ emergency cases ’ apart , no medical treatment of an adult patient of full capacity can be undertaken without his consent , creates a situation in which the absence of consent has much the same effect as a refusal .
6 Such a clause has much the same effect as one which excludes liability for breach and in Anglo-Continental Holidays Ltd v Typaldos Lines ( London ) Ltd [ 1967 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 61 Lord Denning MR indicated that he would not be prepared to allow a party to rely on such a clause to change the whole nature of the contract .
7 ( If a very large number of bullets are fired the probability profile has exactly the same shape as the profile recording the number of hits . )
8 The method adopted by Ministers for discussing policy questions is however essentially a domestic matter ; and a decision by a Cabinet Committee , unless referred to the Cabinet , engages the collective responsibility of all Ministers and has exactly the same authority as a decision by the Cabinet itself .
9 The best Corinthian work of the seventh century , with its tense strength and controlled balance of decorative and representational , has just the same character as the great bronze griffin-heads .
10 The lexicon structure contains exactly the same information as the look-up tree .
11 Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as Mips Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’
12 Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as MIPS Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’
13 Management would say nothing after the talks , but John Kydd , divisional organiser of the AEEU , said the company had effectively delivered an ultimatum to the union to accept virtually the same package as was rejected by sacked workers nearly two weeks ago or the factory could close .
14 No other orchestral sound has quite the same feeling as of ‘ magic casements opening … ’
15 They received much the same reaction as we did .
16 The best wines show much the same style as their more expensive Collio counterparts .
17 He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him .
18 Identification of polymer samples can be made by making use of the ‘ finger-print ’ region , where it is least likely for one polymer to exhibit exactly the same spectrum as another .
19 They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before .
20 Gedge 's approach to stagecraft was largely to ignore all the rules and act almost the same way as he did off stage .
21 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 .
22 her decorations , such as ‘ In the Land of Ecstasy ’ ( Leicester City Art Gallery ) or ‘ Invocation ’ ( private collection ) run along the same theme as ‘ The Zone of Love ’ and reiterate its gender associations .
23 The majority were arboreal frugivores occupying much the same niche as equivalent-sized monkeys today .
24 Anyway , apparently , he was told exactly the same thing as I was told
25 They had used exactly the same methodology as that employed to reach the results at Dounreay and Sellafield .
26 The evolution of opera in Spain from court entertainments , play-music and so on , followed much the same course as in France — with Caldéron , who allowed ample scope for music in his plays , taking the role of Molière .
27 Snails , from a hungry animal 's point of view , present much the same problem as eggs , for they too are succulent morsels enclosed in hard shells .
28 The festival itself is moving into its second decade and keeps basically the same shape as in other years .
29 ‘ Dead ’ saints could perform exactly the same function as living ones .
30 Meiklejohn says , " Every adjective is either an explicit or an implicit predicate " , the former corresponding in his book to appearance in predicative position and the latter to attributive use ; and he goes on to show , with examples , that he takes exactly the same view as is found later in accounts given within a Chomskyan framework .
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