Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The groups of women artists who met and worked collaboratively during the same period are less clearly referenced in standard texts . |
| 2 | The authority had coincidentally tested the water for toxins on about the same day as the officer cadets had used it . |
| 3 | I 'm on on about the same subject . |
| 4 | He was quite capable of building a locomotive as I have a working steam model threshing engine , on about the same scale , that also came from the old office . ’ |
| 5 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 6 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 7 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 8 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 9 | The vicar had two sons much about the same age as my brother and myself , so we were often invited into the vicarage to play . |
| 10 | Much about the same I suppose is it , or slightly dearer ? |
| 11 | Possibly because of its immensely larger bulk , antarctic ice has changed far less during the same period . |
| 12 | The cost of connection for the new service will be about 20% more per minute , but should still cost the user less for the same operation . |
| 13 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 14 | But this also breaks down for the same reason and so we resolve the problem by taking what is valid from thesis and antithesis to form a synthesis . |
| 15 | Placebo effects are also seen in allergy , perhaps for the same reason . |
| 16 | We talk about whatever interests us perhaps for the same reason that Willis draws it and paints it . " |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps for the same reason I foolishly asked you to stay with Anna in the first place , ’ he snarled . |
| 18 | A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics . |
| 19 | ‘ So for the same weekly payments any council tenant can start along the road to ownership . |
| 20 | Booze companies fear that tobacco 's closest relation may be in for the same treatment : there have been rumours that a directive is being prepared . |
| 21 | After dinner we continued to fiddle around with tackle and were joined by Mr. Ferguson and his son , Paul , who were also booked in for the same week . |
| 22 | but still have to four phone in for the same purpose , are you with me ? |
| 23 | But so about the same time as the mill was heightened , I think that th land was drained . |
| 24 | Some of the audience calmly fetched additional chairs from a store and we each sat holding our stacking chair over our heads until the shower subsided , in about the same time it took the film rain to subside . |
| 25 | Two substances that look about the same under light , or in other words , reflect light in about the same way , may be totally different in regard to how much sound they absorb or reflect . |
| 26 | A case for seasonal adjustment exists where recognisable seasonal variations occur year after year with a fixed period and where the increases and decreases occur at about the same time and in about the same proportion each year . |
| 27 | Although your skin might feel a bit taut after washing , the skin oils rebound in about the same time , too . |
| 28 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 29 | What the addition of democracy to the liberal state did was simply to provide constitutional channels for popular pressures , pressures to which governments would have had to yield in about the same measure anyway , merely to maintain public order and avoid revolution . |
| 30 | What I certainly would n't see in Shetland were snow buntings carrying food in below the same boulders as the puffins , while their mates sang their lovely wild song from the top . |