Example sentences of "[verb] by [adv] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thus occupied by precisely the same ambition which had driven Vasco Núñez four and a half centuries before . |
| 2 | The proportions of convictions varied by nearly the same degree . |
| 3 | Every year they take exactly the same route as previous generations , for all are influenced by exactly the same topography . |
| 4 | Expenditure in the year had increased by exactly the same percentage as income , with almost half of the increase attributable to modernisation and the building of new lifeboat stations . |
| 5 | Warrants on shares rise and fall by approximately the same amount in pence as the share price , but by a much larger percentage of their trading price . |
| 6 | When Eliot became a Christian in 1927 he declared that he found in reading Paul Elmer More , with whose Shelburne Essays he had shown familiarity in 1916 , the work of someone who had travelled by almost the same route , to virtually the same conclusions . |
| 7 | History , in fact , works by exactly the same structure of supplementarity as Derrida charts in Of Grammatology . |