Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the mornings , the number of titles remained much the same , but total circulation fell . |
| 2 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 3 | The fact that ‘ emergency cases ’ apart , no medical treatment of an adult patient of full capacity can be undertaken without his consent , creates a situation in which the absence of consent has much the same effect as a refusal . |
| 4 | The figures for wastage rates between levels of education reproduce much the same patterns between different regions and between the sexes . |
| 5 | By 1988 , total US aid since 1981 had risen to some US$3 billion , with the pattern of allocations remaining much the same . |
| 6 | The president of the Wolverhampton chamber of commerce delivered precisely the same speech as the one of which he sent me a copy beforehand and I have it here . |
| 7 | The two types of engines occupy roughly the same space but it would be no mean feat , particularly now , to make the major alterations necessary to fit other than Rolls-Royce engines and the integrated British-built train . |
| 8 | Although the linguist who undertakes the analysis of discourse has ultimately the same aims as a linguist who uses ‘ system-sentences ’ in his grammatical description of a language , there are important methodological differences involved in the two approaches . |