Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] the same [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they reach the place of sacrifice , the details of the final preparations are given in the same matter-of-fact way that the initial ones were . |
| 2 | Over one year , a £10 a month investment would be worth a respectable £143.26 now , if it could have been placed in the same hypothetical fund . |
| 3 | Lithuania is dependent for its oil supplies on Russia but has been plunged into the same economic crisis as its neighbour by the collapse of the communist system . |
| 4 | But all of the most powerful posts — economy , foreign affairs , defence , interior , justice , education — are filled by the same old faces . |
| 5 | Its vineyards are situated on the same east-facing slopes as those of the superb grands crus of Avize and le Mesnil-sur-Oger , and its wines are comparable in quality . |
| 6 | Her Cinderella feet , when not encased in riding boots or miniature galoshes , are shod in the same perfect low-heeled pump , custom-made by the dozen by Farkas and Kovacs , and matched to pearly brocades , soft pastels or surprisingly vivid patent primaries . |
| 7 | The question for us now is whether these new forms of growth are occurring in the same geographical labour market areas as those of factory and public sector job losses . |
| 8 | can not help him out because they too are caught in the same conceptual framework . |
| 9 | This was explained by arguing that the neural mechanisms underlying both motor control of the right hand and the production of speech are located within the same cerebral hemisphere and thus the two tasks compete for limited neural space or processing capacity . |
| 10 | Had that been approached in the same meticulous way ? |
| 11 | Comfortable Seats — Clio is equipped with seats that are manufactured in the same traditional style as those in larger cars . |
| 12 | LEEDS boss Doug Laughton and Liverpool manager Graeme Souness are swimming in the same shark-infested sea at the moment . |
| 13 | As a matter of strict precedent , however , this aspect of the Lonrho case must have been decided on the same factual assumption as that which governed the conspiracy claim , viz . |
| 14 | Now we learn that tampons are not classed as medical appliances and therefore not subject to the same stringent government legislation on manufacture and sterility which applies to say condoms which when you come to think about it are destined for the same anatomical region . |
| 15 | There are other arguments that have been made along the same general lines , to the effect that to capture regular processes ( e.g. syntactic regularities ) one must refer to pragmatic concepts ( see e.g. Ross , 1975 ) , arguments that will arise from time to time in the Chapters below . |
| 16 | One kind of answer suggests that bird vision has been improving over the same evolutionary timespan as insect camouflage . |
| 17 | Loyalty bonuses for disloyal players , bloated payments to executives , contracts which give managers shares of transfer fees and other salary innovations may be above the law but they are rooted in the same dark subsoil which nourishes numerous rackets and scams . |
| 18 | For example , if there is an unexpected budgetary overshoot , the labour force can effortlessly be reduced by simply not renewing employment contracts , which is why industries are succumbing to the same ruthless logic . |
| 19 | People are paying about the same this year as they did in 1991 , according to industry figures . |
| 20 | Here 's another new model from guy who has been riding for the same big-time company for literally eons . |
| 21 | And both are gripped by the same dogmatic delusion . |
| 22 | Streamline Graded Readers are based on the same clear and well-controlled syllabus which has made the Streamline coursebooks popular with teachers all over the world . |
| 23 | Both NVQs and SVQs are based upon the same employment-led standards whose development rests with the appropriate ‘ lead ’ or standard setting bodies . |
| 24 | They may be packaged slightly differently but they are based upon the same unspoken tradition that underpinned my own short years at college . |
| 25 | This raises the possibility that the genes present today in the chromosome of E. coli have not all been derived from the same ancestral population in the distant past — as have the genes of mice — but have come from very distantly related ancestors . |
| 26 | Sex specialists Masters and Johnson say it 's a series of quite separate orgasmic peaks which are linked in the same sexual experience . |
| 27 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 28 | Actually , not all of these arrangements are derived from the same basic format ( Neal 1981 , 91 ) : Box and Rapsley , for example , possess octagonal and not hexagonal panels around the central square . |
| 29 | The written word always has a special sanctity and more so if it is from a contemporary source , but it needs to be examined with the same ruthless and objective scrutiny as given to the archaeological evidence . |
| 30 | This does not necessarily mean that a diversity of penal aims is ruled out , but each of the different aims must be justified by the same general philosophy if our position is to be coherent . |