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

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1 In 16 , however ( and perhaps in 15 , too ) , it is possible to argue not only that the two sentences can be used to make identical statements , but more specifically that horse and mare make effectively the same semantic contribution to their respective sentences .
2 We say " the same man " and mean numerically the same human person ; and we say " the same colour " and mean a quality that can be possessed or exemplified by different individuals .
3 On this model of organic relationships , the lower animals are merely immature versions of humankind : they develop along the same scale but mature at an earlier point in the process .
4 Anyway , they taste much the same , and last year beetroot soup was added to the menu .
5 The basic problems , however , remain much the same .
6 ‘ I fear somewhat the same circumstances . ’
7 The next two areas in the list of uses-management and administration , and using office programs — come together in that both involve much the same hardware and software .
8 Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK .
9 I would have trusted him to be here at this discussion and say much the same things other people here would be saying .
10 say basically the same thing ; that , as emperor , he has the power to do a lot of damage and that power can quickly corrupt men , however noble or good they seem to start off .
11 Did all these guitarists want basically the same kind of modifications ?
12 Mind you , I expect much the same could be said about my second-year essays if I 'm absolutely honest .
13 ‘ I think you want exactly the same things she does , but you hide behind the pillars of your ice palace , pretending to be so unapproachable .
14 I had heard Hindus in London say exactly the same thing about weddings .
15 There are often three related questions : do recipient governments really want the project ? do the target beneficiaries ( such as smallholders ) within the country really want the project ? do the donor(s) , the recipient government and the beneficiaries expect roughly the same from the project ?
16 The two types of engines occupy roughly the same space but it would be no mean feat , particularly now , to make the major alterations necessary to fit other than Rolls-Royce engines and the integrated British-built train .
17 MS-DOS 3.3 and DR-DOS occupy roughly the same amount of conventional memory .
18 Or you can simply cover as many circuits as you want around the same track in the way that athletes do circuit training on a track .
19 You remain exactly the same " .
20 But they 're canned , they taste exactly the same , says Sly .
21 The strange thing about these different ways of arranging the same information is that they all apparently mean exactly the same thing .
22 Near synonyms are most common , with true synonyms ( which mean exactly the same thing and which are used in precisely the same context ) being more unusual .
23 If decisions are made by a committee , and they are wrong , they can blame one another , and the people suffer just the same . ’
24 And those remain just the same as they were before .
25 If someone who said this was asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' .
26 I also said that if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' .
27 Similarly , if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ Someone else is in pain ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same by ‘ pain ’ when I say someone else is in pain as I mean when I say ‘ I 'm in pain ’ . ’
28 I mean Just the same do n't walk on your own .
29 The Pekinel sisters are unfortunate in that Justus Frantz and Christoph Eschenbach cover much the same ground on two mid-price CDs instead of three full-price ones .
30 The best wines show much the same style as their more expensive Collio counterparts .
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