Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the northern bank of the firth lies the fertile Carse of Gowrie , the word carse meaning much the same as haugh — a stretch of alluvial levels beside a river . |
| 2 | This is very much the same as sample 3 , but the tucking needles are now tucking for two rows before knitting two rows . |
| 3 | Sex : Much the same as career , only considerably more enjoyable . |
| 4 | With quite minor additions and subtractions the actual wood substance has in all cases about the same chemical constitution and about the same density of ninety pounds per cubic foot ( that is , much the same as sugar — say 1.5 ) . |
| 5 | When I did start in ‘ 73 it was very much the same as trade effluent but the sewers were open , if you like . |
| 6 | The temperature of his skin was so much the same as mine I hardly knew we touched , yet I remained very still , my hands laid on his shoulders with the exaggerated formality of one learning to dance . |
| 7 | When I told her what was troubling me she just gave me a piece of clean rag and said more or less the same as Mum had . |
| 8 | Because it 's er you know more or less the same as estate agents in terms of look alike . |
| 9 | The problem always is to identify myths that support a mature life from those which distort the quality of living and mobilise only the less than adult , managerial capacities and capabilities of individuals in their work roles . |
| 10 | Success for capital is not necessarily the same as success for labour or for a local economy . |
| 11 | It 's almost exactly the same … we get everything we need for the notes written on the board so we can just copy it down … so it 's just the same as school , except the homework — when you do those problem sheets , they do n't bother to mark it . |
| 12 | But take waterproofs just the same as rainfall is usually high — up to 60 inches a year in the Presely Hills . |
| 13 | A good proportion of Rousettus 's clicks are clearly audible to us ( which by definition makes them sound rather than ultrasound : ultrasound is just the same as sound except that it is too high for humans to hear ) . |
| 14 | So you should know how to spell carriage another time , it 's exactly the same as marriage |
| 15 | In all honesty I think they are exactly the same as newpaper reports in that if a team wins 3–0 or 4–0 they automatically say it was a trouncing , and then dredge up ‘ facts ’ to evidence their overall assumption . |
| 16 | Exactly the same as copy , but there 's one difference . |
| 17 | Curiously , weight for weight , the Young 's modulus of timbers is almost exactly the same as steel and aluminium and much better than synthetic resins . |
| 18 | MARK UP IS NOT THE SAME AS PROFIT |
| 19 | This combined emphasis — that doubt is not the same as unbelief but can lead naturally to it — directs us to a mature handling of doubt that avoids the extremes of being too hard or too soft on doubt . |
| 20 | For the Christian , doubt is not the same as unbelief , but neither is it divorced from it . |
| 21 | They realize that psychology puts up powerful barriers against female psychologists ; that femaleness is not the same as feminism ; and that female psychologists have a problematic token status in the discipline . |
| 22 | Now , d do n't forget index-linking is not the same as salary increases , and in a time of rapid inflation , prices go up , salaries go up , and the government can interfere in any way it wants with the R P I index . |
| 23 | Camp is not the same as gender inversion , but it often connects with it , and with good reason . |
| 24 | Feminist psychologists are aware that sex balance among subjects and subject matter is not the same as gender equality , and this compels them to address gender issues in other areas of the discipline . |
| 25 | Obviously , self-respect was not the same as disrespect . |
| 26 | Control is not the same as leadership . |
| 27 | But reserve is not the same as contestation , and people linked by descent were bound by their opposition to others , had a solidarity based on common ownership and defence , which seemed stronger than day-today resentments arising from a father 's control of his sons . |
| 28 | As seen in the example given in ‘ Financial Analysis ’ this is not the same as profitability . |
| 29 | As seen in the example given in ‘ Financial Analysis ’ this is not the same as profitability . |
| 30 | Whatever some fiscal economists may say , capital gains are not the same as income . |