Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Although these cards have different colours they must have approximately the same IR reflectance .
4 A popular health-service argument was that every one of the million or so staff should get exactly the same percentage increase in pay — as though the recruitment and retention position was the same for all .
5 But you should get roughly the same reaction .
6 Still try to feel that you are swinging down and through and your follow-through should travel roughly the same distance as your backswing ( photos 3–6 ) .
7 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 .
8 And they 'll cover roughly the same topic areas .
9 Raising a languid hand towards a grey-haired woman seated in an armchair beside the dog , and who looked as though she might patronise just the same sort of charity shops as Ellie herself , he introduced , ‘ My mother . ’
10 The the exam , for part of your assessment will be in much the same form it 'll be in two parts er recreating to the two parts of the course and , yo , you 'll get roughly the same number of questions as the than the essay questions that you have with each each semester .
11 For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop .
12 Mind you , I suppose if the others were in they 'd do exactly the same thing would n't they ?
13 It was a great experience but I 'm not sure I 'd do precisely the same trip again . ’
14 ‘ I was thinking I 'd like exactly the same thing , ’ she confessed , giving him a radiant smile .
15 ‘ Dead ’ saints could perform exactly the same function as living ones .
16 This was particularly for people who have not been in hospital , but who may have exactly the same sort of needs as the people who are the focus of the particular project .
17 Those people may have roughly the same income and circumstances and they may all be able to bear the same burden .
18 And I would make just the same kind of point about the word " family " .
19 You would do exactly the same thing . ’
20 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 .
21 In order to define completely where you are right now you would need to use four mathematical coordinates , not three , and each of these would have exactly the same status as the rest .
22 But for the words italicised ‘ financial year ’ and ‘ accounting reference period ’ would mean exactly the same thing ; as it is they need not .
23 Erm I just moved probably a half a pace so P C would get exactly the same view as myself .
24 Provided you know how to use it , a cheap hand-held version will do much the same thing . ’
25 Equations ( 6.9 ) and ( 6.15 ) will give exactly the same value for the share price .
26 Visualize how it is going to fit in with its neighbours : the stems may be rough-trimmed , but you will prune them later in early spring , not now , and then the new growth will follow much the same line of the present branches .
27 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 .
28 It will have broadly the same management team as the existing trust .
29 This section on English will take broadly the same shape ; I do not propose to discuss the theoretical debates in English ( such as those between structuralists and liberal humanists ) but to discuss instead the purpose of English : what the teachers of English think is the point of teaching it .
30 Hence the monopolist will produce exactly the same output as in the absence of a profits tax and , facing the same demand curve , will charge the same price as before .
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