Example sentences of "[verb] precisely the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 This Government 's record , as well as that of our predecessors who pursued precisely the same policy , shows some success in delivering the objective that both parties have espoused — reduced tobacco consumption .
2 In its revised form it has precisely the same aim : to provide a bridge between those who find themselves divided by the renewal movement .
3 Now in this case D can be reduced to a standard canonical form E by a similar transformation unc where Y has precisely the same block diagonal form as D ; in effect , each diagonal block is resolved into its own canonical form .
4 A few days before , in an interview with The Economist , Ms Tyson had made precisely the same point .
5 One of the most fascinating scientific experiments of recent years showed that when people ate meals at a rapid rate they became hungry again more quickly than when they ate precisely the same size of meal at a slower rate .
6 It was a great experience but I 'm not sure I 'd do precisely the same trip again . ’
7 ‘ We 've had precisely the same argument in Kampur and in Bombay , in Delhi and in Madras .
8 Telephone calls to the office get precisely the same response as Sir Geoffrey got — a polite girl saying that Mr. Stavanger is away .
9 To be able to compare results from the simulator with those previously obtained on the road it was decided to have subjects perform precisely the same judgment tasks that had been used in Study 1 , giving ratings of subjective risk and estimates of accident statistics .
10 It is made all the more aggravating when people living inside the city know how little it costs the authorities outside the city to do precisely the same job .
11 [ He will say later , ‘ If I 'd relaxed the standard there I 'd have had umpteen other people knocking on the door wanting to do precisely the same thing to save on trade effluent charges . ’ ]
12 The president of the Wolverhampton chamber of commerce delivered precisely the same speech as the one of which he sent me a copy beforehand and I have it here .
13 Whichever bone it was , it was a crotch in shape ; that is , a forked bone like a wish-bone , and having precisely the same shape as the frog — the horny elastic pad — in a horse 's hoof .
14 I had imagined , for instance , that I would be able to catch a glimpse of Mount Silisili , a mile-high peak in the centre of Samoa , just a few miles away across the water : I had hoped to do so for no better reason than that Mount Silisili would be enjoying precisely the same clock time as here in Tonga , but exactly one day before .
15 The French did precisely the same thing . ’
16 Not all Marxists , of course , share precisely the same perspective .
17 My Lords if this bill had been introduced by a government of a different political persuasion to the present one , I would of course have spoken in precisely the same terms as I do today and I believe that in circumstances of that sort , the overwhelming majority of this House would have taken precisely the same view .
18 ( 3 ) What is the point of introducing the two definitions , namely ( ii ) and ( iii ) , when they express precisely the same concept ?
19 Suppose , for example , one asks whether 16a and b have precisely the same meaning :
  Next page