Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [adv] the same " in BNC.
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1 | Those who are not may choose the more attractive route , going north to Koblenz , turning right to follow the Rhine , turning left about 8km ( 5 miles ) after Kaiserstuhl to pick up the same road through Jestetten . |
2 | Unlike the mornings , the number of titles remained much the same , but total circulation fell . |
3 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
4 | The fact that ‘ emergency cases ’ apart , no medical treatment of an adult patient of full capacity can be undertaken without his consent , creates a situation in which the absence of consent has much the same effect as a refusal . |
5 | The figures for wastage rates between levels of education reproduce much the same patterns between different regions and between the sexes . |
6 | By 1988 , total US aid since 1981 had risen to some US$3 billion , with the pattern of allocations remaining much the same . |
7 | The president of the Wolverhampton chamber of commerce delivered precisely the same speech as the one of which he sent me a copy beforehand and I have it here . |
8 | The two types of engines occupy roughly the same space but it would be no mean feat , particularly now , to make the major alterations necessary to fit other than Rolls-Royce engines and the integrated British-built train . |
9 | Although the linguist who undertakes the analysis of discourse has ultimately the same aims as a linguist who uses ‘ system-sentences ’ in his grammatical description of a language , there are important methodological differences involved in the two approaches . |
10 | The double bed where she had lain with Johnny occupied much the same position as did her own . |
11 | Although women were in practice doing exactly the same work as certain categories of men , they too perceived the division of labour as a gender division , and took as their point of reference for equality the " all-round comp " , whom both masters and men held up as the exemplar , rather than the humbler linesman . |
12 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | The second and third ranks of foot were to stay flat on the ground throughout the manoeuvre , and then , in turn carry out the same tactic . |
15 | I had heard Hindus in London say exactly the same thing about weddings . |
16 | My feeling for girls has still the same nervous reverence of childhood or earliest boyhood , rather increased if anything , and only too excessive to be chivalrous . |
17 | My authority receives half as much in grant as an authority such as Manchester to provide exactly the same level of teaching service . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | The to infinitive has much the same expressive effect in : ( 23 ) Certainly I looked for no such friendship as you have shown . |