Example sentences of "[that] [vb -s] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could see a band that plays the same type of music as us on TOTP but they would n't look like us … |
| 2 | The New York Times 's Vincent Canby wrote : ‘ There is nothing obviously glossy in Midnight Cowboy , but it contains a lot of superior laughter that has the same softening effect , ’ yet he found the central relationship was ‘ as honest and affecting as anything you 're likely to see in a movie , and more than compensates for those moments when the film seems to be exploiting its cheap , gaudy locale as might the director of a sight-seeing bus cruising through West 42nd Street and Greenwich Village ’ . |
| 3 | A part or organ in one animal that has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal ’ ( 1843 ) ; ( on late nineteenth century biology ) — ‘ Morphology was studied because it was the material believed to be the most favourable for elucidation of the problems of evolution , and we all thought that in embryology the quintessence of morphological truth was most palpably presented ’ ( 1922 ) ; ( on developmental constraint ) — ‘ But if organisation and the laws of development exclude some lines of variation and favour others , there is certainly nothing supernatural in this , and nothing which is incompatible with natural selection ’ ( 1919 ) . |
| 4 | An anaphor is a word , phrase or ellipsis that has the same meaning as a previous word or phrase in a text , for example a third person pronoun or a verbal ellipsis ( eg Sarah likes burgundy , and Sally , claret ) . |
| 5 | Any activity that causes the same physical emotional feelings as the particular addictive behaviour would be best avoided . |
| 6 | Concern about the disease has also been strengthened by reports of the death of a British dairy farmer from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease , a rare dementia in humans that causes the same kind of brain damage as BSE . |
| 7 | Alternatively , the teacher may take the initiative : ‘ Can you find one that looks the same as this one ? |
| 8 | The idea is that a service representative talking to a customer on the phone will be able to view a document on the screen that looks the same as the printed document the customer has . |
| 9 | And then there is , of course , the photograph of Benn accompanying the article , with a caption that quotes the same statement . |
| 10 | Instead of saying , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing , ’ they might rush to the wardrobe and put on a T-shirt that says the same thing . |
| 11 | For instance , if a couple opted for a full surrogacy arrangement , they could have a baby that bears the same genetic relationship to them as do children conceived in the normal way , while someone else copes with the inconvenience of pregnancy and birth . |
| 12 | Computer models show that the best way of coming up with an inflationary universe that shows the same degree of clumpiness as the real one is to use dark matter that is ‘ cold ’ . |
| 13 | So once you know what it means it helps a little bit and can you think of a word that ends the same as that ? |
| 14 | Reference is made to the unconstructive nature of housework tasks , to the emotionally frustrating sense of being on a treadmill that requires the same action to be repeated again and again ; |
| 15 | At the other extreme , a poll tax that takes the same amount from everyone will keep the same absolute difference between the rewards in one job and the next . |
| 16 | It is accurately spelled out but the wrong word ; it is a homonym or more technically a homophone , i.e. a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently , e.g. hair — hare ; threw — through . |
| 17 | Business or hatred , there 's something that stays the same — it 's just that person ; just about him . |
| 18 | My word , that 's one thing that stays the same , at least . |
| 19 | If both the frame and substitution items have gliding tones that is of course an added difficulty , but as long as you work with a frame that stays the same , you at least have something constant with which to compare the substitution items . |
| 20 | A substitution drill consists of a pattern sentence , also called a frame , which is a meaningful phrase or clause that stays the same , and a list of substitution items . |
| 21 | Then the Verb-Subject sequence ( just drilled ) will form the frame that stays the same . |
| 22 | In order that is for there to be some change , whether er change er like having a page torn out or a change like moving from one location to another , there also has to be something that stays the same , mainly the subject of change . |
| 23 | The powerboat world has been left high and dry this summer by a big red boat named Flippin Shytalk … its call sign is P69 … the only number that reads the same upside down … but the Oxfordshire crew that run and race her are on the very top of their sport at the moment … |
| 24 | If it does then the product , in conjunction with a page printer that speaks the same language , will be almost infinitely more powerful than one that does n't . |
| 25 | Is there a molecule that weighs the same as an oxygen atom ? |
| 26 | If you are working , then how about looking for a job that pays more or a job that pays the same but reduces your travelling costs ? |
| 27 | farmers encouraging foxes to live on their land encourage a whole range of other wildlife that enjoys the same habitat , as has been done at Highgrove . |
| 28 | In our garden is a wooden seat that serves the same function as my former porch in France : it catches the last sunlight . |
| 29 | But after two years of struggling , engineers at Grundig have developed a mechanism that manages the same trick while the cassette stays in place . |
| 30 | A curriculum that genuinely values the practical as highly as the theoretical or academic must be geared to a public assessment system that does the same , and from which only the severely mentally handicapped , and not all of them , will need to be totally excluded . |