Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cunt and Rocky are just not the same issue . |
| 2 | You 're just about the same height |
| 3 | ‘ We 're almost exactly the same age — his birthday is six months after mine — and we see each other at least once a week for lunch . |
| 4 | And I think both of them need to be erm thought about and looked at , but they 're certainly not the same thing . |
| 5 | There are still roughly the same amount of people who do get drunk and create a problem , but we are now dealing with the street offences they cause at two or three o'clock rather than ten till midnight . ’ |
| 6 | They are nearly always the same people and they nearly always sit in the same places . |
| 7 | This practice seems to be very much the same no matter whether the personal orientation of the research worker is materialist or idealist , Marxist or anti-Marxist , structuralist or functionalist , rationalist or empiricist . |
| 8 | These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood . |
| 9 | Another attraction in being an RIE is its " status " , in the eyes both of exchange participants and government authorities ; here , RIE and exchange status are indeed much the same thing , both in theory and practice . |
| 10 | They demonstrate the likelihood that carvers of hard stone , like quartzite , were probably not the same artisans who worked softer minerals like granite or granodiorite . |
| 11 | Ben was almost two years older than Danny , but small for his age , while Danny seemed likely to take after his father , so they were very nearly the same height . |
| 12 | Before sleeping I wonder what Pascal had in mind when he wrote in the Pensées : ‘ Time heals griefs and quarrels , for we change and are no longer the same persons . |
| 13 | My sister-in-law is just about the same age as me , and whether it 's because she 's not his daughter , but he treats her completely different . |
| 14 | That 's just about the same height as the fence you see . |
| 15 | Its distribution in space becomes more and more contorted by the velocity fluctuations , but so long as molecular diffusion plays no role , the marked fluid is always just the same fluid . |
| 16 | By the time the draw takes place the audience will have had an eyeful of Loren and an earful of Pavarotti , who was once a deep-lying centre-forward and is now roughly the same shape as the ball . |
| 17 | Outside , it 's pretty much the same story , so quality of workmanship is well up to expectation . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's pretty much the same thing that is happening in my body . ’ |
| 19 | But I think it 's pretty much the same role for men , there 's the poodle-boy rock problem , and there 's REM . |
| 20 | As Brumfit observes , ‘ Being a good teacher is never exactly the same thing as understanding teaching ; there are many things we can do well that we can not fully understand . ’ |
| 21 | The other Prendergast sketchbook in the collection , known as the Large Boston Public Gardens Sketchbook , is very much the same sort of thing but more fully worked , with numerous full-page watercolour sketches , possibly intended as presentation pieces to demonstrate his abilities to future patrons . |
| 22 | ’ Speaking for myself , I read that very broadly as giving the judge who makes a residence order the jurisdiction to attach conditions , or directions which I think are very much the same thing , as to how the children should be cared for and where they should be once the residence order has been made . |
| 23 | The author has come to an overall conclusion that , perhaps , clients and dealers are very much the same sort of people . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it was quite often the same people who represented their countries in the various bodies : when the ministerial organs of the OEEC , Council of Europe , NATO or WEU were examined , the overlapping nature of their memberships was very apparent . |
| 25 | Uppingham in Rutland , which just reached 300 , was almost exactly the same size as the big villages Langham and Lyddington . |
| 26 | The trouble was that the pile of things they had put aside to back in the cupboards again was almost exactly the same size as the first pile . |
| 27 | The construction of that generality does not pretend to be the only possible one — the same event could operate in all sorts of different ways in different series , temporalities , which would mean that , strictly speaking , it was no longer the same event , for it would have been dispersed in their different rarefactions . |
| 28 | He was no longer the same man . |
| 29 | With the much lower production costs of the late 1980s , small circulation was no longer the same barrier to profitability . |