Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the same [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She detested Topaz for exactly the same reason and her constant nagging had made Loverin 's mind up for him . |
| 2 | Some argue that cheap imports are a waste of money — others say widely differing prices are being charged for exactly the same product and that suppliers which criticise imported cutlery often stock it themselves . |
| 3 | The owner was also uncompromisingly twentieth-century , a man of much the same height and age as McLeish but built like a string bean , with brown , short-cut hair and fashionable heavy horn-rimmed spectacles . |
| 4 | The entertainments industry faces a similar peak of approximately the same duration and timing . |
| 5 | For instance , a work of scholarship devoted to an esoteric subject will sell for a significantly higher price than a novel of approximately the same length and format by a popular writer . |
| 6 | Where the property of A is mixed with that of B which is of substantially the same nature and quality and they can not practicably be separated ( grain in a bin , oil in a tank ) the mixture is owned in common in proportion to the quantity contributed by each and the law is the same whether the mixing is wrongful or by consent . |
| 7 | Moreover , the opening motive of this piece is duplicated in an episode of the Rousset piece ( ex.2 ) , and the two pieces are of roughly the same length and make similar technical demands . |
| 8 | Whether this is a plain green , or yellow , or an overall mottled grey and brown , the result is a body-covering of precisely the same hue and tone . |
| 9 | The fact that it is impossible to borrow words from one language to another with exactly the same form and meaning means all such systems are a compromise . |
| 10 | Yet the fact of West European industrial growth also had the opposite effect too : these places were not drawn into the new scheme of things in exactly the same way or on exactly the same conditions as France , Britain , Belgium and Holland — the original members of the industrial club . |
| 11 | Once the water has turned the generator , it will be discharged back into the river in exactly the same state and volume as abstracted . |
| 12 | We come across something which we have not come across before in exactly the same form but there is a similarity . |
| 13 | Yet he would hold that there could not be another state of mind just like it , without this being bad in just the same way and degree . |
| 14 | In adult education , more than in schooling , and more than in higher education , the possibilities for resisting the inevitable are greater , because the learning relationship is not based on compulsion in quite the same way and because there is less male power invested in it . |
| 15 | Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser . |
| 16 | but changes in the ownership and control of companies also took place between these dates , sometimes on virtually the same scale and certainly with the same consequences for programme contents . |
| 17 | Many composers have used melodic shapes based on virtually the same scale and chord patterns , or on similar rhythms , yet produced themes unmistakably their own . |
| 18 | There were other ways of arriving at much the same conclusion but one logical consequence was that the non-biblical " gentiles " and the " savages " were lumped together as a kind of historical residue of " first men " . |
| 19 | If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production . |
| 20 | If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production . |
| 21 | it just happens to be the same amount at exactly the same time but how nice of him to explain and how silly of us to be taken in by this string of coincidences . |
| 22 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 23 | I doubt that an historian of welfare policy in the 1970s could access data and run it ( i.e. view it ) just as was done by the policy makers of the 1970s and their advisers , yet we can read the parliamentary reports of the nineteenth century at exactly the same speed and in exactly the same form as the policy makers who used and created them . |
| 24 | A level-top , apart from its looking well , was emphasized for a good economic reason : if the ploughland was level , the drill coulters would bite in at an uniform depth , and sow the seed in the same way ; the ears of corn would then mature at approximately the same time and all the seeds of corn would be approximately the same size . |
| 25 | They were just poling away and Matt shouted ‘ Hey , fellers , cut ’ but they did n't take any notice and I remember thinking maybe they 're testing the rope to see if it works , and Matt and I turned at just the same moment and saw where the Indians were heading us — straight into a pile of rocks and foaming water — and I knew the rope must have broken or something . |
| 26 | Secondly , and a possible explanation for the first phenomenon , only those companies having on their own staff a group or individual of at least the same calibre and ability as the outside group are likely to achieve success in this type of collaboration . |
| 27 | The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind . |