Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] the same [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They therefore have much more freedom and scope for accommodation , and are much less likely to conform to the same fixed pattern .
2 Chastened , Wycliffe turned to his memo : ‘ Bullet and cartridge case submitted August 7th : Preliminary examination suggests that these belong to the same round and that the bullet was fired from a self-loading pistol of 7.65mm calibre ( .32 auto .
3 Some scholars think that all three belong to the same basic source , or at the very least two sources .
4 Toyota Genuine Replacement Parts are all made to the same exacting standards as those fitted to your car from new .
5 But people will probably only all co-operate when they are all threatened by the same external
6 There was a set of letters tied up in a bundle with a violet silk ribbon and all written in the same ridiculous and now-faded violet ink ; they were scented with old makeup ( each one bore at the bottom of its last page a lipstick kiss in Nuits de Paris ) and were on expensive and indeed pretentious notepaper as thin as an onion skin .
7 One way to deal with this is to express each result from an individual as a percentage of the mean value for that person ; in this way , all vary about the same mean value of 100 per cent .
8 In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum .
9 As has been pointed out already , the use of a standard interface means that packages will all work in the same basic way .
10 Because all snail genes have an equal stake in every sperm and every egg , because they all participate in the same unpartisan meiosis , they work together for the common good , and therefore tend to make the snail body a coherent , purposeful vehicle .
11 I think we have to remember that that that these Anthems are all played by the same military band , and therefore they 're played in a western style .
12 The problem is that a good gimmick is contagious — everyone in Hollywood gets it all at once , and then you get a rash of movies all suffering from the same big idea .
13 Therefore within the lexicon run , runs , running , ran each have the same ROOT-INDEX stored ( 19590 ) to indicate that they are all derived from the same morphological root .
14 Dishwashing etc. machines : Despite being used for a variety of functions , including cleaning crockery , bottles , trays , crates and numerous other items , these machines all operate on the same general principle .
15 Recognising that a lot of women are taking to the hills , and that they may feel a little intimidated by such a male-orientated sport , especially since they all dress in the same fluffy things as us now , I have come up with a startling new innovation .
16 Each of these forms , or intensities , can be given a separate name , but they all belong to the same basic message : ‘ Clear off , or I will attack you . ’
17 Flies such as these breed in decaying plant and animal refuse , and your ones probably all emerged from the same rotten potato .
18 Yet the cases which fail to set up trusts all fail for the same good reason : because they do not make clear an intention on the part of the settlor that a trustee should be legally obliged to a beneficiary .
19 Although all separate entities , they do co-operate with each other as , naturally , they are all working towards the same ideal .
20 This means that when they watch another group 's work they are affected by what they do , they 're all working within the same fictional context .
21 In 1770/71 Lagrange set about analysing the various methods then known for dealing with the general equations of degrees 2 , 3 , 4 and he found that they all depended on the same general principle ( see Section 5.2 ) .
22 A more valid comparison would be between Black and White arrest rates of those living in the same small areas , because their living circumstances are more likely to be similar , as is their policing .
23 Comparisons between the three race groups were between those living in the same small areas i.e. in roughly the same circumstances , rather than over a whole city or London borough .
24 Determined to respond in the same offhand manner with which he had made the announcement , she simply tossed her head .
25 Although these two expressions have the same referent ( they both refer to the same celestial object , Venus ) , they differ in sense , as the evening star means " the star which appears in the evening " , and the morning star means " the star which appears in the morning " .
26 When he gets to the event and discovers that the people there are friendly , interesting and pleasant company — and most belong to the same political party — he will begin to think .
27 In this sense the elements of a people 's ‘ real ’ universe can be ‘ turned upside down ’ as easily as those of its linguistic universe , since their apprehension of both stem from the same fundamental principles of thought and meaning construction .
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