Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] the same sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagine many a western pioneer got the same sort of surprise as I did when the bride eventually arrived ; except that I did n't marry the dog — there 's nothing peculiar about me . |
| 2 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 3 | Such a figure gives the same sort of support to the prediction that the volatility of aggregate demand and its impact on real output are negatively related , as was found by Lucas ( 1973 ) . |
| 4 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | If Vanilla Ice spouted the same sort of shit they did he 'd be pilloried . |
| 7 | The tablet uses the same sort of membrane technology as that used by the ZX81 or ZX Spectrum keyboards and provides a 256 by 256 point resolution . |
| 8 | ‘ Ron wants Ray to do the same sort of job , and there are definite similarities between the two , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I have seen many other companies working the same sort of processes , and I have yet to find one which seems to have the final solution . |
| 10 | The second question makes the same sort of enquiry about the relations between categories . |
| 11 | The one complication is that all Windows applications place the same sort of minimum demands on a machine and so if you want to work in a Windows environment you will have to add the extra requirements to machine fit to run Windows . |
| 12 | The clientele seemed the same sort of rich mixture as ever , and the game of guessing who was what — could the distinguished looking old boy be a Thuringian baron , the owner of a launderette chain in South Dakota or a villain from South Croydon ? — kept all its old charm . |
| 13 | And in a relatively small way , but when you think of the other universities doing the same sort of thing , in a larger way , we are offering this kind of opportunity to people . |
| 14 | Research on Yorkshire suggests the same sort of early arrangements , with the large estates there being called shires ( the equivalent of the maenor in medieval Wales and what Glanville Jones terms the discrete estate or federal manor in England ) . |
| 15 | A fountain pen in Paris fulfils the same sort of emblematic function as a car and may cost almost as much : all kinds of social and identity messages are tied up in it . |
| 16 | ‘ It ought to be called ‘ The Barber of Fawlty Towers ’ since Peter Knapp 's hilarious version of Rossini 's classic deserves the same sort of popularity enjoyed by that series ’ The Guardian Sun in English by Travelling Opera Directed by Peter Knapp |
| 17 | I do n't know whether other oldies have the same sort of dreams , but they bring a very great compensation ; and you wake up feeling very excited having met your old friends again . ’ |
| 18 | People who played golf did , of course , and rich people , but the majority of people wore the same sort of clothes all the time . |
| 19 | Admittedly , we do sometimes talk as if a person could have a pain in his foot and be unaware of it , perhaps while his attention is on something else , but this is explained by there being different levels of consciousness , or self-consciousness , in the mind ; it does not require our saying that pains have the same sort of mind-independent existence as tables . |
| 20 | If you read the correspondence columns of the papers , you will find a remarkable range of people with diplomatic and military experience taking the same sort of view as I do . |
| 21 | Well , Councillor very briefly , in response to Councillor referred the same sort of thing from yourself er , chairman , on on numerous occasions . |
| 22 | All four works present the same sort of world — the teeming , overgrown , majestic Amazonian rainforest that Villa-Lobos knew very well . |
| 23 | This was the case with a significant number of the girls talking here , for instance , Lorraine and Cathy , both of whose mothers had had children in their teens , and consequently had felt very sympathetic to what their daughters were going through , and Debbie 's mother , who had been more upset because she did not want her daughter to have the same sort of life as she had had . |
| 24 | After looking at Dragonfly we briefly discussed which riffs by other players had the same sort of feel , and ended up jamming our way through Hendrix 's Spanish Castle Magic , Manic Depression , Purple Haze and Voodoo Chile — also Clapton 's Forever Man and White Room . |
| 25 | For the rest of us , it seems commonplace and obvious that we should be able to think , imagine , perceive and remember in the ways that we do , and we tend to take it for granted that the rest of the world has the same sort of experience of everyday life that we do . |
| 26 | put in a great deal of their time erm going to work and that could be working for er a European or an American right , er some sort of help in the house , or in the garden or whatever , so you had the men doing the same sort of tasks the housework as it were for Europeans and Americans and the women looking after the , the economic development of that little |
| 27 | These two men did the same sort of job . |
| 28 | Ken , in the event neither fulminated nor frothed , and managed to restrict himself to a 15-minute speech in which he advanced some very cogent and well measured arguments for preventing bolting gaining the same sort of prominence it has in other countries — notably France and America . |
| 29 | In order to provide the same sort of instant help and emotional support to staff as well as residents , it may be necessary to site a house supporting potentially disturbed people near to a hospital site with acute psychiatric admission wards , for although technology can link many homes to one central point , it can not provide the reassurance of instant personal help in times of emergency . |
| 30 | The founding , and the success , of the first five adult organisations for the deaf in Britain at Glasgow , Edinburgh , London ( St. Saviours ) , Manchester and Leeds prompted many deaf people in other parts of the country to seek the same sort of opportunities for themselves . |