Example sentences of "[verb] on [adv] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man under discussion in the White House was , at that moment , dwelling on precisely the same subject . |
| 2 | In total , mergers did not occur on quite the same scale as they did in the 1920s — which was equivalent to something like one-third of all firms in manufacturing going out of existence — but they caused the loss of an equivalent of a quarter of all firms . |
| 3 | Obviously , if you 're a very tiny newborn baby , the amount of food you need to er , put on extra pound weight , is , is not going to be the same as if you are a much larger child , and you want to put on proportionately the same amount of X pounds , whatever it would be , it would be same the same proportion of your weight . |
| 4 | Charles was just getting out of his bath and was about to put on again the same clothes he had taken off beforehand , when suddenly , there at the gates were envoys bringing from Aquitaine a crown and all the royal gear , and everything needed for holy rites ! |
| 5 | For the period before 1984 our analyses rely on much the same evidence as the Black report , though more complete registration data are now available . |
| 6 | Many small town craftsmen worked on much the same plan . |
| 7 | Weaving looms differ considerably in size and sophistication , but all operate on exactly the same principle , which requires a secure frame on which to tie the warp strands . |
| 8 | There are other probes that operate on exactly the same principle but are geometrically different : an important one is the hot-film anemometer ; the heated element consists of a thin metallic film on the surface of a wedge-shaped thermally and electrically insulating base . |
| 9 | And it would seem similarly improbable , for the same statistical reasons , that two lines of evolution should converge on exactly the same endpoint from different starting points . |
| 10 | For those of us who are spared having to wear a uniform to work , the notion of getting out of bed and putting on exactly the same clothes , every day , is simply too boring to contemplate . |
| 11 | Ælfric wrote on much the same lines . |
| 12 | Dr Reading and the Swedish scientists began their work independently , neither knowing that the other was working on virtually the same project . |