Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significant feature of privatization has been that the transformation has usually been carried out by broadly the same teams that had worked under nationalization . |
| 2 | It also masks the fact that Anglo-Saxon ‘ villages ’ probably moved about in roughly the same area from generation to generation . |
| 3 | The new Northern Ireland should then be firmly secured within the political set-up of the United Kingdom by being treated thereafter on exactly the same basis as , say , Yorkshire or Lancashire . |
| 4 | Noel Blake was kicked out for exactly the same reason — he could nt handle being in a squad . |
| 5 | Standing in shallow water amongst the tall reeds on the banks of the river , Mark counted eight herons , all motionless , their necks inclined upwards at precisely the same angle , as if in silent prayer . |
| 6 | His speech made clear that he had been brought reluctantly to much the same view as his Director of Propaganda . |
| 7 | This has gone up in virtually the same proportion as the labour cost . |
| 8 | Hence for Wales as a whole , the historically high population growth experienced during the second half of the 1980s is being projected forwards at virtually the same rate for the 1990s . |
| 9 | Human awareness of this truth , he may have concluded , was passed on with just the same loose and haunting persistence as the rhythms and phrases of English poetry , surviving from Anglo-Saxon times to Middle English and ‘ The Man in the Moon ’ , and on again to Shakespeare and Milton and Yeats and nursery-rhyme , without intention as without a break . |
| 10 | They 're then taken upstream to exactly the same stretch of river they were picked up from two weeks ago and released — clearly happy to back in the territory they recognise … until this time next year , when they 'll be collected once again for another short break in their unlikely holiday location , just off the M25 … |
| 11 | So I remind myself that it does n't really matter about things being put back in exactly the same place in the cupboard , or precisely the same brand of tea being bought , or the carrots being cut to exactly the right dimensions . |