Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adv] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The galaxies may continue to recede from each other but , under the influence of the Universe 's own gravity , begin to slow down and then start to come towards each other again — in exactly the same way , and for exactly the same reason , that a ball thrown into the air will slow and then return to the ground . |
| 2 | And finally we shall cross the name of Cedric Downes off that same list , and for exactly the same reason . |
| 3 | It all reminded me of what I received when I dared to make some mild criticism of the habits of cyclists and for much the same reason . |
| 4 | A piece of pinewood , said Robert Craig , a Scottish electronics engineer , the log going up and down like the ‘ bees ’ in a bottle of bees wine and for much the same reason . |
| 5 | Some grow much better in damp places where the fish could nibble at them when they felt like it or if they needed to — in a similar way to a dog eating grass — and for much the same reason . |
| 6 | And for much the same reason as for Mars the thermosphere of Venus only reaches modest temperatures ( section 3.4.1 ) . |
| 7 | Hall , whose second round score was 79 , missed from seven feet at the first and from much the same distance at the last . |
| 8 | These sculptures must date from the middle or later seventh century , and from much the same time come the first carved fragments plausibly associated with a Doric temple . |
| 9 | You see I mean er er and this generally , I mean ju just as when Stalin claimed to be communist , that claim has been accepted by the great majority of people writing about what was happening in Russia in the West and in just the same way the Chinese leadership er after nineteen forty nine claimed to be communist , claimed to be standing in the tradition of Marx and that claim , generally speaking , has been accepted . |
| 10 | I doubt that an historian of welfare policy in the 1970s could access data and run it ( i.e. view it ) just as was done by the policy makers of the 1970s and their advisers , yet we can read the parliamentary reports of the nineteenth century at exactly the same speed and in exactly the same form as the policy makers who used and created them . |
| 11 | For Newton there was no satisfactory account of why the planets should orbit the sun in the same direction and in roughly the same plane : This aesthetically pleasing scheme could only be explained by appealing to God 's initial design . |
| 12 | Two years later he bought my mother a new car and at just the same time I caught him in his office with his secretary . ’ |
| 13 | Newton and Leibnitz discovered the principles of calculus at the same time ( and squabbled over it for twenty years ) ; Darwin thought of how the species evolved , but so did someone called A.R.Wallace , and at exactly the same time . |
| 14 | Thus rapidly , and with support on all sides , did Co-operation become accepted as a means of doing business , and at much the same time as did the joint stock company in essentially its modern form . |
| 15 | Numbers are vital : if thirty students are each likely to want a biography of a scientist , or a map of the Lake District , or the text of the Race Relations Act , and at roughly the same time , then copies must he available . |
| 16 | Secondly , and by much the same token , we would condemn any suggestion that there is merit in regulation almost for its own sake : our justification for regulation can be only some real need to prevent what is unfair or damaging . |
| 17 | Now y'know you can come up with a description of that as an ellipse but in exactly the same shape , in a slightly different context , yeah , you know it 's actually circular and it 's a hoop and your perception of the object is different . |
| 18 | The early choices will be painful , of course , but in much the same way that ‘ pins and needles ’ are painful when your leg has gone to sleep . |
| 19 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |