Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] the same " in BNC.

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1 Although various thinkers before him had formulated much the same basic principle of utility as basic to ethics none had used it so systematically as the basis for rethinking all moral and social arrangements .
2 But Morton Pitt 's Preventive Station and the Battery would have looked much the same 30 years earlier .
3 He made beer the same way as his grandfather had and today it 's brewed just the same way .
4 I once spent six months as a PR person , and I 'm not getting caught twice the same way .
5 Julius 's dark brown eyes held an odd gleam of triumph , as if he had realised exactly the same thing .
6 In any case , the ideology of the RCC was that women should not be treated exactly the same as men : women are human beings , and therefore equal to men , but they are also more delicate , more beautiful and gentler — they are like flowers , and should not be compelled to be manlike and false to their nature .
7 And they were treated exactly the same as any other player who came through .
8 And they are treated exactly the same as anybody else on the Tour .
9 ( b ) It should be treated exactly the same as any of your other three shifts .
10 When Peter makes the point that the non-Jews have received exactly the same gift of the Holy Spirit as the Jewish Christians , the logic is inescapable .
11 No special arrangements were made in the law for people ‘ cohabiting ’ , but the Assistance Board and their successors were expected to use their discretionary powers to ensure that such people were treated just the same as married couples .
12 I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess .
13 She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself .
14 If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset .
15 He told me he 'd said much the same to you . ’
16 The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all .
17 Orwell was not alone in observing that England was two , three or four nations ; J. B. Priestley had already made much the same observation in his English Journey .
18 ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel .
19 He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him .
20 I would have done exactly the same thing in her shoes , ’ says Joe .
21 Surely , having gone completely against what is standard medical advice for a hiatus hernia , he would have done exactly the same had his heart been suspect .
22 You can have one quick move and if it 's a false one well er you made a bad mistake and you 've gone back about er whatsit and I think 's done exactly the same here he 's sacked us and he 's put himself in er in er queer corner s like a game of draughts you know and he 's trying all roads to come out of it .
23 It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it .
24 I do n't mind but that getting a like when Shirl first came she was to get everything done exactly the same time
25 Apart from that they could 've sat on a wall and done exactly the same thing , she was in the street .
26 It 'll be interesting if we could find out erm actually what prices are because if he 's a good he would have said exactly the same thing to .
27 Since both the Victoria and the Caledonian Press explicitly claimed to be offering work to women who really needed it , and who might never marry , arguments about the appropriateness of married women working were not particularly relevant , but they were made just the same : woman should be " man 's helpmeet not his rival "
28 ‘ I 've seen just the same in the police , ’ murmured Blanche .
29 The head gardener at Chilton at the turn of the century , Charles Beckett , had a brother , Edwin , also a head gardener , and both men built exactly the same design of fruit house in their respective gardens .
30 We have seen exactly the same psychological process in palaeontology , where the fashionable fixation for homoeomorphy in many groups brainwashed many of us into thinking : " if they look alike they ca n't be related " !
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