Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the project was expanded to include building an expert system for another , similar circuit board using exactly the same technique . |
| 2 | Although women were in practice doing exactly the same work as certain categories of men , they too perceived the division of labour as a gender division , and took as their point of reference for equality the " all-round comp " , whom both masters and men held up as the exemplar , rather than the humbler linesman . |
| 3 | Then she looked behind her and saw a carriage coming up the same hill that she had just climbed , with a man leading the horse . |
| 4 | Words having exactly the same sound , but different spellings and meanings : To be completely accurate , these are homophones : but homonym is the term in more general use . |
| 5 | The bay to his left was labelled ‘ Fiction A-H ’ , and to his right was the cash desk looking much the same as it must have done on the day the shop was first opened . |
| 6 | Other birds , however , can be said with accuracy to weave , for they create the fabric of their nests using exactly the same principles as human weavers employ when they interlace a weft thread between parallel warp threads to create cloth . |
| 7 | There is the same distinction between ‘ consumer deals ’ and others — the distinction having exactly the same effect . |
| 8 | How sad to see one of our senior trade union officials doing exactly the same in 1992 . |
| 9 | Brigadier Hillary-Jones has nephews and nieces doing much the same . |
| 10 | In areas of impermeable rocks , such as the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Wales , the terraces are often preserved as a series of broad swells reaching approximately the same elevation , but the break of slope between two adjacent terraces is not always observable . |
| 11 | The ASB also published with the Foreword an exposure draft of a foreword carrying out the same role for Urgent Issues Task Force abstracts . |
| 12 | Macmillan briefly concluded : " We had a conference with the general and his officers covering much the same ground as those with Gens McCreery and Harding yesterday . |
| 13 | ( He was to keep audiences waiting almost the same period in Rain Man many years hence . ) |
| 14 | An emergency FEC meeting later the same evening endorsed the call . |
| 15 | By 1988 , total US aid since 1981 had risen to some US$3 billion , with the pattern of allocations remaining much the same . |
| 16 | Yeah well the thing is that something 's got ta shift because we 've got we 've got all these bloody flights going out the same time |
| 17 | Erm and and yeah an and we were thinking oh yeah we look really good and we go along and , but there 's so many other girls wearing exactly the same thing that you just blend in , you do n't you know what I mean ? |
| 18 | This publications audit will often turn up other interesting facts that you might have been unaware of like two departments doing exactly the same thing through different outside agencies or short runs being hammered out on page printers when they could have been more effectively produced on a photocopier or by a print shop . |
| 19 | This practice is justified by reference to the fact that those permanent staff members performing notionally the same job take on a quasi-supervisory function during the peak period . |
| 20 | This enables him to preside over the process which I have described with the minimum of overt interference , the constriction of the budgetary limits performing much the same role as the balance of supply and demand in a market system . |
| 21 | A Dwarf sees an extra Elf sitting up the same tree , about to fire an Elf Bow and strike down his rockbrother . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The greatest changes in sleep in humans take place during the first year of life , with the normal one-year-old showing essentially the same patterns of sleep as the adult , although in different proportions of stages , and with a recognizably different EEG . |
| 24 | Now let's keep the force the same , say we 've got a Mini engine providing us , just running it steady at three thousand R P M. Pushing out the same amount of force , keep the force the same , this time we put a smaller mass , we 've got a Mini engine and you 've put it on your pushbike . |
| 25 | The flood story in Babylonia is also known from a Sumerian text telling virtually the same tale , though more briefly , and many Sumerian compositions refer to the distant days of the flood or before . |
| 26 | The majority were arboreal frugivores occupying much the same niche as equivalent-sized monkeys today . |
| 27 | I realize that there may well be seven others doing exactly the same thing , but I believe that God will help the most sincere and the most deserving . |
| 28 | ’ — to have a creep in the family doing exactly the same thing . ’ |