Example sentences of "is [prep] the same [noun] as " in BNC.

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1 the steak out there is about the same price as mince here .
2 The water vole is about the same size as a brown rat , but with blunter features , smaller ears , a furry tail and a more gingery coat .
3 It is about the same size as Rye .
4 Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker .
5 The new slimline Lynx 2 is about the same size as the Game Gear .
6 It is about the same size as its jungle relative , weighing up to 100 lb ( 45 kg ) and measuring , nose to tail , as much as 7 ½ ft ( 2.3 m ) .
7 So she is about the same age as her stepson .
8 ‘ It is about the same risk as my drive from Oxford to London to take part in the jump . ’
9 Right you then get your baby , you 'll see the midwives doing this , you stabilize the baby pelvis , because otherwise it will just sort of go all over the place wo n't it , and this doll is , is fairly fixed , it 's not a very soft thing like a baby and you , with your hand you put your finger which is about the same length as the baby 's finger is n't it ?
10 ‘ I once heard her say ’ , Hortensia went on , ‘ that a large boy is about the same weight as an Olympic hammer and therefore he 's very useful for practising with . ’
11 This inhibition occurs at concentrations of 5ASA and N-acetyl 5ASA found in the rectal lumen of patients taking therapeutic doses of 5ASA containing compounds and is of the same magnitude as the reduction in IFN γ induced HLA-DR expression .
12 The length of the ridge is of the same order as the size of the remnant .
13 It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago .
14 Intuitively , one might claim that the need for completeness which is satisfied when are angry is added to residents in ( 2 ) is of the same order as that experienced when waiting for , say , the splash of a stone thrown out over the sea , or for the arrival of food in one 's mouth when one has watched it being prepared .
15 Whereas the time taken for a computer working randomly but with the constraint of cumulative selection to perform the same task is of the same order as humans ordinarily can understand , between 11 seconds and the time it takes to have lunch .
16 This is possible because Panthera leo persica , the lion of India , is of the same genus as Panthera tigris tigris .
17 Chartres Cathedral is of the same pattern as the others but is given a different appearance by the spires on the western towers ( 433 ) .
18 In this respect there is a certain similarity — hinted as , incidentally , by Spinoza himself — between substance and attributes ; both substance and its attributes , according to him , are " infinite " — i.e. they are ( unlike discrete things ) not limited by anything external that is of the same nature as themselves .
19 It seems certain that pavement K , Woodchester is of the same period as the Orpheus mosaic , i.e. c. 310-325 .
20 Although Villedommange is of the same échelle as its neighbouring premiers crus , its highest vineyards , which do not adjoin a dense mass of forest and are thus free from the ill-effects of transpiration , produce grapes of a superior quality .
21 Well , really , how to make a cup of tea is like the same thing as making a cup of coffee first you have to take the kettle to the tap , turn the tap on and fill up the kettle , then take the kettle back to the ma , erm , where you got it from and plug it into the wa wall .
22 A fund manager is connected with an offeror or a target company if he is controlled by , controls or is under the same control as the offeror or the target , or any bank , stockbroker , financial or other professional advisers to the offeror or target , or is an investor in the consortium making the bid .
23 In the case of a connected fund manager exempt status is relevant only where the sole reason for the connection is that the fund manager is controlled by , controls or is under the same control as a financial or other professional adviser ( including stockbrokers ) to the offeror or target company .
24 HOLYWOOD — Coach Norman Crawford 's squad is along the same lines as they defend their League and Kirk Cup titles .
25 David Bintley 's Hobson 's Choice ( 1989 ) is in the same category as The Rake 's Progress .
26 Taken together these properties mean that if A is in the same class , or category , as B , B is in the same category as A , and that if A and B are in the same category , and B and C , then A and C are in the same class .
27 Intellectual : There is some evidence for " state-dependent learning " which results in the brain being best able to recall factual information and practical skills when it is in the same state as when that information was first learnt or skill first practised .
28 Although Mensch 's theory is in the same tradition as Schumpeter 's , the mechanism that triggers the clustering of innovations is industry 's common experience of low rates of profit as the profitability of the old family of technology that fuelled the last boom is exhausted .
29 None the less , what the United States data imply is that the upward trend in recorded crime is in the same direction as actual victimization , although at a slower rate .
30 Using × 7 , Rho is in the same field as Sigma ( 4.5 ) which is of type F , but in which I can see no colour at all .
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