Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] be [adv] the same " in BNC.

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1 If a boat heeled right over it 's not good for the boat and it slows you down , it is far better to reef , the technique is just the same afloat as it was ashore .
2 If she had a guest it was never more than one and the hour was always the same .
3 The route is substantially the same whether carried out by road or by the narrow-gauge Brunig railway ; it follows the shore of Lake Brienz before turning north to climb over the Brunig Pass and then descend by steps via the Lungern and Sarnen Lakes to the shores of the Vierwaldstattersee .
4 But the story is essentially the same : England 's long aristocratic hangover ( the idea of an English ancien régime , outlandish to Whiggish historians , has been taken up on the right by Jonathan Clark and others in interpretations that contest but also defer to Anderson 's own ) ; its early industrialisation ; a weak-kneed bourgeoisie ; an inward working-class addicted to ‘ Labourism ’ ; the distraction of empire ; the more recent hollow heroics of ‘ Ukania ’ ; and the failure to develop a progressive intellectual culture grounded in a radical sociology .
5 In some binary-accretion theories the story is much the same .
6 The story is much the same in all four cities : social conservatives trying to push their ideas through school boards , parents frustrated that schools have fancy ideas but do n't seem to teach children to figure , write or read .
7 In the rest of Europe the story was much the same , in some ways worse , as a glance within the hopefully green cover of the 1989 status report of the Forum Atomique Européen ( Foratom ) confirmed :
8 I rehearsed this over and over again , but when I stopped — and the story was usually the same — I relaxed and limped around , opening each locker several times in confusion .
9 Quite a few of his country clients had been late for their appointments , or had failed to turn up at all , and the story was always the same : British troops had boarded the train as passengers so the driver or the fireman or the guard or ticket-collector — sometimes all four — refused to work and the train never moved .
10 Whenever I 'd ask them what they wanted to eat the reply was always the same : ‘ Anything , you choose , Mum ’ .
11 I had known that this was pending but when , over the last few weeks , I had enquired when they were going to start out , the reply was always the same , ‘ Oh , I think we 'll wait a bit and hope for some warmer weather . ’
12 and that bit in there from the album is exactly the same equipment
13 whether both individuals are described by role descriptions or proper names , the enhancement is much the same .
14 The Blues are three points ahead of Forest now and they must ensure that the gap is still the same tomorrow night .
15 I would be deeply suspicious if the level of consistency were such that the figure were absolutely the same in every area because that would suggest to me that no discretion was going into the process .
16 In dramatic terms the mix is much the same : cosy periodity , with some mild swearing , the odd whiff of sex and Peckinpah-style slo-mo for the violence .
17 With Troon built horse-shoe shaped , the wind was never the same .
18 The car was exactly the same model as his mother 's .
19 Either way the result is inevitably the same .
20 At the next attempt , Odom excluded and when Cheshire had to take on the two Newcastle riders on his own , the result was just the same as in the initial race .
21 But the result was always the same .
22 Repeatedly the hoarse-voiced Feldwebels tried to rally their men forward in one more supreme effort , but the result was always the same .
23 In Frank H Wright ( Constructions ) Ltd v Frodoor Ltd [ 1967 ] 1 WLR 506 a valuation stated that some assets had not been included , when in fact they had been , but the result was still the same and completely unaffected by this error ; there was therefore no need for the court to correct the valuation .
24 But the pleasure is always the same — grand scenery , stunning settings and the wonderful way that holds keep appearing on great slabs of bland-looking rock .
25 The quantity of water raised from the lower to the higher level will on the average equal that lowered from the higher to the lower level so that there will be practically no loss of water by lockage and as the vessels transported by the lifts are waterborne the weight of the load carried by the dock is always the same whether the vessel be loaded or not and whether the dock contains a vessel or not .
26 There are so many diseases that can be helped by the Alexander Technique because , whatever problem we may have , the remedy is always the same : find out what it is that is causing the problem , stop doing whatever it is and then you will soon start to feel better .
27 Galileo did have the insight to perceive that the effect was probably the same as that when a drop of water would remain on a cabbage leaf .
28 What 's more , the engine is much the same as that in the 1935 15-series cars , and Citroen 's engines were never as far ahead of their time as the rest of the car .
29 The plot is basically the same — two opposites forced to share confined spaces while travelling across several US states to get home for Thanksgiving .
30 The dream is always the same .
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