Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adv] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant . |
| 3 | The galaxies may continue to recede from each other but , under the influence of the Universe 's own gravity , begin to slow down and then start to come towards each other again — in exactly the same way , and for exactly the same reason , that a ball thrown into the air will slow and then return to the ground . |
| 4 | And finally we shall cross the name of Cedric Downes off that same list , and for exactly the same reason . |
| 5 | But in a reasonably just society this belief in an obligation to obey the law , this attitude of respect for law , is as valid as an obligation acquired through consent and for precisely the same reasons . |
| 6 | More recently , and for much the same reasons , Stelux , from Hong Kong , bought the Bulova Watch Company in the USA . |
| 7 | Britain therefore experienced a credit squeeze in the early 1990s during a period of recession in much the same way — and for much the same reasons — that she experienced a credit boom during the period of growth and ‘ overheating ’ in the mid-1980s . |
| 8 | It all reminded me of what I received when I dared to make some mild criticism of the habits of cyclists and for much the same reason . |
| 9 | A piece of pinewood , said Robert Craig , a Scottish electronics engineer , the log going up and down like the ‘ bees ’ in a bottle of bees wine and for much the same reason . |
| 10 | Some grow much better in damp places where the fish could nibble at them when they felt like it or if they needed to — in a similar way to a dog eating grass — and for much the same reason . |
| 11 | And for much the same reason as for Mars the thermosphere of Venus only reaches modest temperatures ( section 3.4.1 ) . |
| 12 | In my judgment , and for substantially the same reasons as those given by the judge , the non est factum plea fails . |
| 13 | Exactly the same battlelines , with exactly the same watchwords and against much the same enemies , now urgently need to be drawn up to save the traditional British pub . |
| 14 | Hall , whose second round score was 79 , missed from seven feet at the first and from much the same distance at the last . |
| 15 | These sculptures must date from the middle or later seventh century , and from much the same time come the first carved fragments plausibly associated with a Doric temple . |
| 16 | You see I mean er er and this generally , I mean ju just as when Stalin claimed to be communist , that claim has been accepted by the great majority of people writing about what was happening in Russia in the West and in just the same way the Chinese leadership er after nineteen forty nine claimed to be communist , claimed to be standing in the tradition of Marx and that claim , generally speaking , has been accepted . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For Newton there was no satisfactory account of why the planets should orbit the sun in the same direction and in roughly the same plane : This aesthetically pleasing scheme could only be explained by appealing to God 's initial design . |
| 19 | They looked at each other for the first time with a long , speculative look , weighing up the possibilities honestly and in much the same terms . |
| 20 | Two years later he bought my mother a new car and at just the same time I caught him in his office with his secretary . ’ |
| 21 | Newton and Leibnitz discovered the principles of calculus at the same time ( and squabbled over it for twenty years ) ; Darwin thought of how the species evolved , but so did someone called A.R.Wallace , and at exactly the same time . |
| 22 | Thus rapidly , and with support on all sides , did Co-operation become accepted as a means of doing business , and at much the same time as did the joint stock company in essentially its modern form . |
| 23 | Numbers are vital : if thirty students are each likely to want a biography of a scientist , or a map of the Lake District , or the text of the Race Relations Act , and at roughly the same time , then copies must he available . |
| 24 | Secondly , and by much the same token , we would condemn any suggestion that there is merit in regulation almost for its own sake : our justification for regulation can be only some real need to prevent what is unfair or damaging . |
| 25 | The thought that the country might attempt suicide once again , so soon and by much the same means as last time , is almost too painful to contemplate . |
| 26 | Now y'know you can come up with a description of that as an ellipse but in exactly the same shape , in a slightly different context , yeah , you know it 's actually circular and it 's a hoop and your perception of the object is different . |
| 27 | The early choices will be painful , of course , but in much the same way that ‘ pins and needles ’ are painful when your leg has gone to sleep . |
| 28 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |
| 29 | It is strange , however , that Garrick did not subscribe for Leapor 's volumes , since at almost the same time he subscribed for the Irish bricklayer poet , Henry Jones , though this may have been done to please Chesterfield . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the factory towns and the mines were not far off as they were in the South , and the northern peasant was used to a hard life ; he was not forced to stay on the land as a pauper , since employers and employed were in the same economic difficulties and regarded each other as of nearly the same status . |