Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , if the arbitrage portfolios tend to contain roughly the same subset of shares , there will be little direct pressure on the prices of the remaining constituents of the index .
2 Especially when all the lenders seem to have roughly the same mortgage interest rate on offer to borrowers most of the time ?
3 Although there was some division of Conservative opinion , it appeared that a majority both of the Cabinet and of the backbenchers favoured either the acceptance of the bill or a Government measure doing roughly the same job in its place .
4 Now , if you look at Example 2 , you 'll see that I 've written out the same scale pattern in thirds .
5 ‘ We 've had precisely the same argument in Kampur and in Bombay , in Delhi and in Madras .
6 The sexual proclivities of no other prime minister have aroused quite the same kind of obsessive inquiry …
7 Some in industry have to carry out the same operation .
8 When Peter makes the point that the non-Jews have received exactly the same gift of the Holy Spirit as the Jewish Christians , the logic is inescapable .
9 Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated .
10 Why , should there be conflict over parental investment , because after all , children are the link product of success of their parents , so shortly child and parent have got exactly the same self interest have n't they ?
11 Previous binaural recording systems have followed much the same path as Zuccarelli 's holophonics .
12 Surely it is the fact all the other counties have gone down the same road that has persuaded Yorkshire that , in order to compete on equal terms , they must follow suit .
13 There is a version of this where the children have to move forward the same number of paces as the time called out by the shark .
14 In our sample , in the south both have lost virtually the same amount of ground ; yet the Lib Dems have won seats by the handful .
15 On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped .
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