Example sentences of "the same [noun sg] as [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think misplacing twenty thousand dollars ’ worth of jewellery is quite in the same category as forgetting your glasses are hanging from a chain around your neck . ’ |
| 2 | The double bed where she had lain with Johnny occupied much the same position as did her own . |
| 3 | a handy refuge for many punters fed up with processed pop , but the indigenous musics of Zimbabwe , Soweto or Venezuela will never serve the same purpose as Gim me Shelter or Relax for a British , French or American listener . |
| 4 | Some trainers offer residential courses , however , where you can enjoy a holiday at the same time as training your dog under expert guidance . |
| 5 | Dealers were expected to get these cards filled in at the same time as fulfilling their quotas of business , but nobody had time . |
| 6 | Colourist Chris Walton used Medium Blonde and Terra Rosa from Wella 's Colour Touch range to change the tone and deepen the overall colour of Sally 's hair at the same time as encouraging its shine and improving the general condition . |
| 7 | It is likely to attract criticism from members on the grounds that it exploits the plight of the unemployed by using them as cheap labour at the same time as removing them from the unemployment statistics . |
| 8 | He then proceeded , at the same time as refilling my glass rather regularly , to produce all the necessary forms which , bless his heart , he had already collected , for me to fill in and sign in order to have the cremation . |
| 9 | We can use the power of narrative to intrigue and draw children into the work at the same time as teaching them about narrative ; teaching them how to manipulate it for themselves . |
| 10 | So Iran continues to uphold the territorial integrity of its old enemy at the same time as bombing it . |
| 11 | Sometimes such problems are tackled by putting the students to work in twos and threes , so that good readers can help the slower ones ; in the case of fairly lengthy work-cards , where more explanation is given , it is also helpful to record the text on a cassette , which the slower reader can listen to with the words before him , increasing his familiarity with the written word at the same time as giving him the information that he needs . |
| 12 | Customers of Tamworth can now dispose of their rubbish at the same time as doing their shopping , as there are now recycling facilities in the car park . |
| 13 | In fact , there is general agreement that the country 's leading corporations were increasing overseas employment in other industrial countries ( Chapter 2 , 25–6 ) at the same time as reducing it in Britain . |
| 14 | She said if I used Head and Shoulders now on this it would revert back because it has such a sa a strong P H balance in Head and Shoulders it has the same effect as reversing it . |
| 15 | It 's very weird to see yourself ; looking in the mirror is not the same thing as seeing yourself three-dimensionally , which is very , very peculiar , ’ says Howard , who politely declined the chance to take his effigy home at the end of filming . |
| 16 | Hence it is not possible to obey a rule ‘ privately ’ : otherwise thinking one was obeying a rule would be the same thing as obeying it . |
| 17 | So far he 'd got sympathetic countries to ‘ deplore ’ the malai act of aggression , which was not the same thing as condemning it , he said . |
| 18 | Which is not the same thing as saying they do n't exist : the question remains open . |
| 19 | Nothing is barred , except that your subject ( which is , note , not the same thing as your deeper theme ) should involve crime of some sort and that your presentation of it should be in a manner that will entertain , which is almost the same thing as saying it should be through a progressing story . |
| 20 | It goes without saying that stating the problem is not the same thing as solving it in practice ! |