Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the same [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ( 1 ) above this gives rise to an impression of a prospective event , of a desire or longing on the part of the speaker to realize the action denoted by the infinitive , so that the to infinitive produces basically the same sort of impression in this first type of exclamation as in He struggled to get free : it evokes a prospective non-realized event . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the Hena villagers , in their ordinary lives , led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers . |
| 3 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 4 | The opposition leader , Mr Vaclav Havel , made much the same point about the new Prime Minister by stating that he had failed to attract much attention over two years in government office . |
| 5 | For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop . |
| 6 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 7 | The mechanism of change , the cultural ‘ instruction ’ as Cloak ( 1975 ) calls it , has much the same function in the historical process as genes have had in biological evolution , but the ‘ instruction ’ in cultural change is usually an acquired behavioural injunction existing in a world of meanings : the cognitive , although not always conscious , appreciation of their social environment by a human community . |
| 8 | RCT , based in Arizona , is a non-profit making trust fund , and has much the same relationship with US academic institutions as BTG has with UK ones . |
| 9 | Mr Irvine has much the same difficulty within AT&T as the management does . |
| 10 | Figure 5.13 shows the same data for the Focused model which , although it has much the same proportion of grid squares with differences in excess of 1000 people , now gives a total range from -4799 to +8339 . |
| 11 | It has much the same sort of fascination as a dictionary , or a encyclopedia . |
| 12 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 13 | Indeed , much of the evidence suggests that , even if Mansell had not actually braked early , he had perhaps lifted his foot from the throttle , which has much the same effect in an F1 car . |
| 14 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 15 | Did all these guitarists want basically the same kind of modifications ? |
| 16 | English seems to obtain much the same effect with the to infinitive as subject . |
| 17 | Nina resumed cracking nuts , adopting exactly the same grip on the hammer her mother had demonstrated , and successfully opened quite a few . |
| 18 | Tolkien said that he ‘ disliked ’ Shakespeare ‘ cordially ’ , but he used exactly the same phrase of allegory too , where it concealed an opinion of some subtlety . |
| 19 | A badly-sorted deposit gives a low , broad curve , whereas a well sorted deposit , which has exactly the same range of fragment sizes , gives a single very well-defined peak . |
| 20 | In steady conditions this is an entirely fair way to start ; a board starting early through the gate has exactly the same chance of reaching the first mark as the last boat through . |
| 21 | The defamiliarizing principle in art has exactly the same effect on its material ‘ ingredients ’ : it subordinates and transforms the way they are in non-literary circumstances . |
| 22 | I had heard Hindus in London say exactly the same thing about weddings . |
| 23 | My authority receives half as much in grant as an authority such as Manchester to provide exactly the same level of teaching service . |
| 24 | His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This is not necessarily so : the US used roughly the same amount of energy each year from 1973 to 1985 , while its gross domestic product grew by more than a third . |
| 27 | MS-DOS 3.3 and DR-DOS occupy roughly the same amount of conventional memory . |
| 28 | This is because the differences are in general not categorical : the ‘ dialect ’ is a property of the community , and every native speaker has roughly the same kind of access to it and roughly the same knowledge about it . |
| 29 | Rollnik , for example , finds that he has roughly the same number of really bright students in a year now as in 1960 . |
| 30 | No other , not even Previn 's splendid LSO/RCA version ( 3/91 ) , has quite the same degree of haunting evocation in the slow movement , with its passionately expensive climax . |