Example sentences of "[noun] look the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bottle-wrack looks the same and grows in the same straggly way . |
| 2 | Her eyes looked the same as yours and mine , only bigger . |
| 3 | The assumption that the universe looks the same in every direction is clearly not true in reality . |
| 4 | Now at first sight , all this evidence that the universe looks the same whichever direction we look in might seem to suggest there is something special about our place in the universe . |
| 5 | They respond to changes in gate potential , not absolute levels — switching between 0 and 3V looks the same to an igfet as switching between — 3 and 0V . |
| 6 | We believe it only on grounds of modesty : it would be most remarkable if the universe looked the same in every direction around us , but not around other points in the universe ! |
| 7 | Reading an article in a trade journal reminded me of how far behind we are in the use of fluids in this country , by embalmers whose end product never varies and , therefore , their cases look the same and last the same , and funnily enough the noses and around the mouths grey off — the eternal question again ! |
| 8 | To the urban dweller , all woods look the same , but in landscape terms we must be careful to distinguish between the wildwood ( the remnant or successor of the natural or semi-natural woodland of Britain — which certainly does not exist anywhere today and probably has not since the Roman period ) and woods which have been to a greater or lesser degree managed for the production of timber and wood ( Fig. 63 ) . |
| 9 | Only if one turns it round a complete revolution ( 360 degrees ) does the particle look the same . |
| 10 | But did n't all railway stations look the same , turned by the war into dismal places ? |
| 11 | The room looked the same . |
| 12 | All the corridors looked the same and he felt thoroughly confused by his new surroundings . |
| 13 | All such covering trees look the same . |
| 14 | The three people look the same . |
| 15 | They , they they the people look the same as |
| 16 | The finished necklace looked the same as the teacher 's in spite of constant interruptions and distractions . |
| 17 | She was now looking round at both their houses distastefully , though the houses looked the same as usual , snow on the roofs , snow a foot deep over the yards , snow poised on every twig and leaf , a cloud from the central-heating chimney hovering calmly over each residence . |
| 18 | Did the Weather Vane look the same shape ? |
| 19 | Similarly , higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution . |
| 20 | As far as wrinkles and saggy bits go , the majority of my friends look the same , and I do n't waste five hours on daily maintenance like Cher . |
| 21 | The teachers looked the same as the pupils and everyone was equal , ha , ha , though I made a fool of myself by calling the male teachers sir and females miss . |
| 22 | As NASA 's recently launched Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) confirmed , the background looks the same all over the sky , which implies that the cooling fireball which produced it was not given to clumpiness . |
| 23 | Most imitate other people 's good ideas , which is why so much advertising looks the same . |
| 24 | I was born and grew up in Britain , I can appreciate the constant pressure to look the same , dress the same , forget your difference . |
| 25 | All babies look the same to me , but Will was very pleased with her . |
| 26 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 27 | Since the space to the right of the charged sheet looks the same as that to the left , the magnitude of the electric field will be the same at z=a and z=-a . |
| 28 | He proceeded to ring that director on a regular basis from the continental sharedealer where he worked , saying : " If you want your wife and children to keep their faces looking the same , you 'd better pay your little debt . " |
| 29 | ‘ All towns look the same nowadays until you look up at the buildings above and the scenery beyond , ’ he grunted . |
| 30 | It is 4,348 kilometres from Perth to Sydney by rail and , except in spring when the flat underbelly of the continent is carpeted with wild flowers , the first barren miles of the Nullarbor Plain from the Latin meaning " no trees " east of Perth look the same as the next . |