Example sentences of "[prep] the same [noun] [conj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are all blonde and are all about the same size and although none of them are identical you would know they are from the same family . |
| 2 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 3 | ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’ |
| 4 | I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . |
| 5 | If a fuller search is deemed necessary , it must be done in a suitable place by an officer of the same sex and unless the suspect consents to accompany the officer , he must first be arrested . |
| 6 | The only point that I would make is that if you are giving an opiate it will have many of the same effects and if I had to choose , I would probably prefer the opiate to diazepam . |
| 7 | At the time of the transfer it would have cost £6,000 to buy a new model of the same car but as the car was one year old its second-hand value was only £4,000 . |
| 8 | The waiter arrived with the third bottle of Valpolicella and Urquhart poured himself a glass with the same relish as if it were his first . |
| 9 | Should a traveller , returning from a far country , bring us an account of men wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted ; men who were entirely divested of vice , ambition , or revenge ; who knew no pleasure but friendship , generosity , and public spirit ; we should immediately , from these circumstances , detect the falsehood , and prove him a liar , with the same certainty as if he ha[d] stuffed his narration with stories of centaurs and dragons , miracles and prodigies ( quoted in Freeman 1984 : 95 ) . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ Leeds are not playing with the same confidence as when they won the title . |
| 11 | Pascal warned that ‘ hearsay is so far from being a criterion of belief that you should not believe anything until you have put yourself into the same state as if you had never heard it . ’ |
| 12 | If you are given this task it is best to write the minutes up the same day or as soon as possible after the meeting while the discussion is still fresh in your mind . |
| 13 | But that is not to say , and it obviously can not be the case , that he is still the statutory tenant for all purposes , so as to be in the same position as if the order had never been made . |
| 14 | He expressed his feelings so many times in the same way that when he could not see me I would find myself mouthing the words with him : ‘ The thing that worries me is bandits and deep sand . ’ |
| 15 | Would waking subjects really respond to dream images in the same way as when asleep ? |
| 16 | ‘ Early statements of the model ( e.g. , Marslen-Wilson & Welsh ( 1978 ) ) assert that candidates drop out of the pool of word-candidates when they do not fit the specifications of context , in the same way as when they do not fit the accumulating sensory input . |
| 17 | Advantage of powering the receiver all the time the vehicle is moving is that , even though the driver is not listening to the receiver , it is continuously being updated by RDS data , in the same way as if the driver were listening to the CD player . |
| 18 | It may be noted that in Criminal Law anyone who aids , counsels , or procures the commission of an offence is liable to be tried and punished in the same way as if he were a principal offender . |
| 19 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 20 | The profit chargeable for income tax purposes is calculated in the same way as if the Bond has been fully encashed at the date of death . |
| 21 | Section 2(1) of the Public Health ( Recurring Nuisances ) Act 1969 imposes a similar but lesser power : where a prohibition notice has not been complied with and the odour nuisance recurs , a local authority may institute summary proceedings , whereupon the Magistrates ' Court hearing the complaint shall have like power to make a nuisance order in the same way as if the local authority had acted under s.93 of the Public Health Act 1936 . |
| 22 | These pairs were chosen to be balanced for frequency , imageability , etc. , in the same way as if selected for human subjects . |
| 23 | For such conditioning to occur , the animal must learn to respond to a mild stimulus which would not normally cause the withdrawal in the same way as if it were a strong one , such as a shock to the tail , which does cause withdrawal . |
| 24 | Erm I think that that in the same way as if we went down too low , could be considered to be er a change of strategy and I think what we 're about is to try and reflect the currently er approved structure plan strategy . |
| 25 | An arbitration award can be enforced by application to the court under s26 of the Arbitration Act 1950 , which allows enforcement of the award in the same way as if it were a court judgment . |
| 26 | Reliefs and deductions can be obtained by the taxpayer in the same way as if he had actually received the income ( s743(2) ) . |
| 27 | The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it . |
| 28 | Intellectual : There is some evidence for " state-dependent learning " which results in the brain being best able to recall factual information and practical skills when it is in the same state as when that information was first learnt or skill first practised . |
| 29 | They were seen to be working in the same direction and although it has not yet been possible to gauge the extent to which they help in the task of managing new education , their contribution to quality assurance should , by tradition , be valuable . |
| 30 | If you try to return to your BBCBASIC(Z80) program , you will find yourself in the same situation as when you left it . |