Example sentences of "[verb] almost the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found that a Parish Church could present almost the same problems as our Congregational ones . |
| 2 | Over a lifetime these two strategies yield almost the same number of offspring but an older male clearly needs the quicker success and he takes the greater risk . |
| 3 | Gedge 's approach to stagecraft was largely to ignore all the rules and act almost the same way as he did off stage . |
| 4 | There are , the article reveals , scientists who pad a reference list of their publications by publishing almost the same material in several journals , altering the title a bit , dropping a paragraph or adding one , or doing the same with a table or graph . |
| 5 | Wood ( 1962 : 107-8 ) says almost the same thing : to can be omitted after help " only when the " helper " does some of the work , or shares in the activity jointly with the person that is helped " . |
| 6 | ( He was to keep audiences waiting almost the same period in Rain Man many years hence . ) |
| 7 | Americans , with whom the EC is arguing over farm subsidies in a struggling GATT round , spent almost the same amount ( $47 billion ) on government subsidies for farmers ; but , as consumers , they provided much less additional help — a mere $28 billion . |
| 8 | They flew almost the same number of sorties ( some 2,600 each ) and lost nearly the same number of aircraft ( 72 with 431 and 74 with 434 ) , suffering virtually identical casualties . |
| 9 | Ironically , Ernst & Young chose almost the same moment to issue a plea for a simplification of the rules governing disclosures in company accounts — if this ASB warning is not acted on , the result could be exactly the opposite . |
| 10 | Sarah wore almost the same clothes , except that her shirt was red . |
| 11 | After the strike , British Coal was free to reduce its workforce from 221,000 to below 100,000 ( June 1989 ) , but was producing almost the same quantity of coal because of a 60 per cent increase in productivity ( Figure 5.6A ) . |
| 12 | Obviously , they would look pretty stupid wearing a T-shirt that read , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing ’ , so they may lounge around in something which relays almost the same message , but in a more roundabout way . |
| 13 | As for Pepys , there are curious parallels : both maverick MPs who did almost the same job trying to reform Britain 's armed forces — Pepys more successfully at sea ; both irreverent , yet painfully conscious of their need to keep their patrons sweet ; both hedonists fascinated by sex , class and gossip . |
| 14 | However , in 1932 a colleague of Rutherford 's at Cambridge , James Chadwick , discovered that the nucleus contained another particle , called the neutron , which had almost the same mass as a proton but no electrical charge . |
| 15 | It also shows that whereas the universities and polytechnics/colleges had almost the same number of full-time students in 1987 , part-time students were mainly concentrated in the latter and the Open University . |
| 16 | However , if you are carrying out skin-brushing ( which does almost the same job ) , the following simple self-massage sequence will be extremely beneficial and should be regarded as an important ally in any campaign against cellulite . |
| 17 | Cecily , Yvonne and I have determined that we are going to tour South Africa — following almost the same route as Merry Wives — with either the Ballet Club or , if they wo n't cooperate , we will form the South African National Ballet . |
| 18 | But these are superficial things , since we soon learned that Chinese faces and people have almost the same degree of individuality as western ones . |
| 19 | When a protozoon divides , its two offspring have almost the same numbers as the parent , but one of them has just one number augmented by 1 and the other has just one number decreased by 1 . |