Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [verb] [adv] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed .
2 The bottom boundary , the ‘ floor ’ , is easy to understand : if , for example , class has no effect on school type , then all classes will have approximately the same proportion of children at selective schools , and the lowest possible magnitude of d will be zero .
3 While managers will pursue broadly the same tasks , they will do so in an increasing variety of ways .
4 The Bonn/Berlin dilemma is changing the image of the federal capital , but I think things will remain substantially the same over the next ten years ’ .
5 ‘ Dead ’ saints could perform exactly the same function as living ones .
6 Some of the finance houses chose to apply for bank status ( under the Protection of Depositors Act ) and these finance houses would observe therefore the same reserve requirements as the other banks .
7 His intention is to experience an ‘ as if ’ context — in a game two friends may agree to behave as if they are opponents ; in drama two friends may make exactly the same agreement .
8 In principle for any word bearing an inflectional affix , it is possible to find contexts where all possible substitutes must contain either the same affix , or one belonging to the same closed set : consider the possible substitutes for walked in Cedric walked home , longer in Mine is longer than yours or books in those books .
9 ALTP/CL Class I standards will remain almost the same , apart from a haemoglobin blood test every medical , and every five years a serum lipids ( fats ) cholesterol test .
10 However , division has a fundamental advantage , which is the reason for its good performance : no two records in any single section into which the key sequence is ‘ cut ’ by division can interfere with any other in the same section , because no two different numbers can have both the same quotient and the same remainder .
11 Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored .
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