Example sentences of "the [noun] at [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boughs grow out from the trunk at nearly the same angle throughout the life of the tree and the sapling can be regarded as a geometrical model of the fully grown tree . |
| 2 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 3 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 4 | Curiously , this branch of crime fiction appears to have sprung up independently on either side of the Atlantic at much the same time . |
| 5 | The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind . |
| 6 | Those of geometer moths are coloured and patterned to look like twigs and when they hold themselves with one end in the air at exactly the same angle to a stem as other twigs springing from it , they are virtually impossible to detect . |
| 7 | The council 's ruling Labour group split on the issue , after leading opponents of the scheme claimed it would increase violence with drinkers spilling on to the streets at exactly the same time . |
| 8 | He did n't have long to wait because Newley was a man of habit and arrived at the office at much the same time , day after day . |