Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] the same [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ( 1 ) above this gives rise to an impression of a prospective event , of a desire or longing on the part of the speaker to realize the action denoted by the infinitive , so that the to infinitive produces basically the same sort of impression in this first type of exclamation as in He struggled to get free : it evokes a prospective non-realized event . |
| 2 | The mechanism of change , the cultural ‘ instruction ’ as Cloak ( 1975 ) calls it , has much the same function in the historical process as genes have had in biological evolution , but the ‘ instruction ’ in cultural change is usually an acquired behavioural injunction existing in a world of meanings : the cognitive , although not always conscious , appreciation of their social environment by a human community . |
| 3 | RCT , based in Arizona , is a non-profit making trust fund , and has much the same relationship with US academic institutions as BTG has with UK ones . |
| 4 | Mr Irvine has much the same difficulty within AT&T as the management does . |
| 5 | Figure 5.13 shows the same data for the Focused model which , although it has much the same proportion of grid squares with differences in excess of 1000 people , now gives a total range from -4799 to +8339 . |
| 6 | It has much the same sort of fascination as a dictionary , or a encyclopedia . |
| 7 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 8 | Indeed , much of the evidence suggests that , even if Mansell had not actually braked early , he had perhaps lifted his foot from the throttle , which has much the same effect in an F1 car . |
| 9 | A badly-sorted deposit gives a low , broad curve , whereas a well sorted deposit , which has exactly the same range of fragment sizes , gives a single very well-defined peak . |
| 10 | In steady conditions this is an entirely fair way to start ; a board starting early through the gate has exactly the same chance of reaching the first mark as the last boat through . |
| 11 | The defamiliarizing principle in art has exactly the same effect on its material ‘ ingredients ’ : it subordinates and transforms the way they are in non-literary circumstances . |
| 12 | This is because the differences are in general not categorical : the ‘ dialect ’ is a property of the community , and every native speaker has roughly the same kind of access to it and roughly the same knowledge about it . |
| 13 | Rollnik , for example , finds that he has roughly the same number of really bright students in a year now as in 1960 . |
| 14 | No other , not even Previn 's splendid LSO/RCA version ( 3/91 ) , has quite the same degree of haunting evocation in the slow movement , with its passionately expensive climax . |
| 15 | He then uses much the same repertory of colours and patterns and fin displays as he did for aggression , but in a female these trigger a series of different responses that eventually culminates in the laying of eggs . |
| 16 | Both resolve to wait until the GP has performed the pregnancy test before telling anyone , even though the GP 's pregnancy test uses much the same sort of chemistry as the commercial one and is hardly more reliable or definitive . |
| 17 | The Salvadorean Feminine Front pursues much the same line with vitriolic attacks on the United States and the armed forces for imposing a provisional president ( Alvaro Magana ) after the March 1982 elections , who was not the ARENA candidate . |
| 18 | The Moon is in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and therefore within the limitations imposed by its orbit always shows much the same face to the Earth . |
| 19 | A more recent instance comes from the Suffolk village of Polstead towards the end of the last century : this shows also the same identification of the practice with witchcraft : |
| 20 | I read recently that applicants for the Institute of Advanced Motorists test are in the ratio of one woman to four men , but the success rate shows virtually the same number of women passing as men . |
| 21 | The remarkable thing is that one gets exactly the same kind of fringes if one replaces the source of light by a source of particles such as electrons with a definite speed ( this means that the corresponding waves have a definite length ) . |
| 22 | We conclude that even though the algebraic and denotational semantics characterises exactly the same equivalence over occam , they are in some sense complementary . |
| 23 | But since justice is not justice unless even-handed , so that one man gets roughly the same treatment from the courts as another in comparable circumstances , and since the law requires that compensation be awarded for physical injuries , and the only kind of compensation which the courts can award is money , the courts are compelled to make a pragmatic solution . |
| 24 | This enables much the same information to be obtained as that obtainable from the company 's membership register but only as at the return date . |
| 25 | And assistant boss John McVeigh reckons the 24-year-old does just the same job at Broomfield as Rangers ' European Cup hero . |
| 26 | And , in the twentieth century , revisionism occupies much the same place in the Soviet Russian construction of Marxism as did heresy in the medieval church . |