Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] same " in BNC.

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31 Damage is calculated in more or less the same way as a stone thrower .
32 She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’
33 Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach .
34 They are situated on practically adjoining hills and are more or less the same distance away from Gubbio .
35 In Paul Corrigan 's study Doing Nothing he suggests that ‘ trouble in school ’ is more or less the same elsewhere .
36 At more or less the same time , a heroin injector from Liverpool , who had also been dealing to finance his own habit , moved house to one of Wirral 's more affluent townships and began dealing in heroin on a large scale-in ounces and half-ounces .
37 Although the spelling may be very different in the different words , the sound is more or less the same .
38 An earthquake in Mexico will be reported more or less the same by each , but what about the Labour Party Conference or a murder down on a Devon farm ?
39 Advertising may well continue in much the same form as in the past and , therefore , careers in this field will remain more or less the same .
40 I remained a TV reporter , doing more or less the same kind of interviews as for TWW .
41 Is there any reason why the same debate , or a debate on the same question , should not be conducted at more or less the same time in a great number of different places ?
42 Selvedges are more or less the same on all items , but the fringes are secured in a number of distinctive ways .
43 and in fact it is more or less the same but you check if some of them are missing .
44 It should be remembered , however , that the great majority of inland sewage works themselves ultimately discharge their treated effluents to open watercourses , subject to more or less the same kinds of constraint as other dischargers .
45 Having said that , it is beginning to gel as a discipline ; Mr D said that staff rarely discussed the aims of the course now , there being a ‘ general assumption that the ground rules are more or less the same [ as when we started ] ’ .
46 It is no coincidence that expressions of the ‘ pro-Palestinian ’ and ‘ pro-Zionist ’ factions have occurred in rival publications at more or less the same time .
47 Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no
48 But they all work more or less the same .
49 No , the Principle is fine — provided you use it — as I said — over a region where gravity is more or less the same . ’
50 This signalling system is apparently more or less the same in Brazilian Portuguese .
51 This is more or less the same as saying that theme normally precedes rheme .
52 It was then widely believed that the universe was static , yet if space , and particularly time , were curved back on themselves , how could the universe continue forever in more or less the same state as it is at the present time ?
53 The universe existed and would continue to exist forever in more or less the same state as it is today .
54 I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral .
55 Most of us apply more or less the same old lotions , creams and make-up all year round through force of habit .
56 I had to keep more or less the leverage more or less the same because you could n't differ them and er I er had that job to er do for and er it was the H M S Gothic and they was going to South Africa and er when er they was on , in the middle of South Africa on the coast one of the royalty died .
57 They wear more , more or less the same sort of er material through the year .
58 The series of Horta heads all have more or less the same basic subdivision into several clearly defined areas .
59 Ah well , more or less the same .
60 To effect the separation it was needful that the particle size was more or less the same .
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