Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ( 1 ) above this gives rise to an impression of a prospective event , of a desire or longing on the part of the speaker to realize the action denoted by the infinitive , so that the to infinitive produces basically the same sort of impression in this first type of exclamation as in He struggled to get free : it evokes a prospective non-realized event . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the Hena villagers , in their ordinary lives , led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers . |
| 3 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 4 | Documents containing both text and simple graphics can be created using much the same equipment except that a graphics screen will now be essential in order to see the charts and graphs . |
| 5 | The opposition leader , Mr Vaclav Havel , made much the same point about the new Prime Minister by stating that he had failed to attract much attention over two years in government office . |
| 6 | For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop . |
| 7 | In the early years of the reign of Henry VIII the Council , benefiting from the inexperience of the new King , probably gained weight while pursuing much the same business as before . |
| 8 | The ages range from 4300 Ma to 4900 Ma , and dust from maria sites displays much the same range as dust from highland sites . |
| 9 | The Higgs boson , Minister , plays much the same role as the photon , but in a different context . |
| 10 | The next two areas in the list of uses-management and administration , and using office programs — come together in that both involve much the same hardware and software . |
| 11 | Nationalists in Scotland say much the same thing about being part of the UK . |
| 12 | The mechanism of change , the cultural ‘ instruction ’ as Cloak ( 1975 ) calls it , has much the same function in the historical process as genes have had in biological evolution , but the ‘ instruction ’ in cultural change is usually an acquired behavioural injunction existing in a world of meanings : the cognitive , although not always conscious , appreciation of their social environment by a human community . |
| 13 | RCT , based in Arizona , is a non-profit making trust fund , and has much the same relationship with US academic institutions as BTG has with UK ones . |
| 14 | Mr Irvine has much the same difficulty within AT&T as the management does . |
| 15 | Figure 5.13 shows the same data for the Focused model which , although it has much the same proportion of grid squares with differences in excess of 1000 people , now gives a total range from -4799 to +8339 . |
| 16 | ‘ First general circulation ’ has much the same meaning . |
| 17 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 18 | It has much the same sort of fascination as a dictionary , or a encyclopedia . |
| 19 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 20 | Indeed , much of the evidence suggests that , even if Mansell had not actually braked early , he had perhaps lifted his foot from the throttle , which has much the same effect in an F1 car . |
| 21 | They do not suddenly appear out of nowhere or on the pages of a language textbook — which has much the same effect — but in varying sizes and on varying materials : out of ticket machines , on computer screens , under windscreen wipers , on hoardings . |
| 22 | The fact that ‘ emergency cases ’ apart , no medical treatment of an adult patient of full capacity can be undertaken without his consent , creates a situation in which the absence of consent has much the same effect as a refusal . |
| 23 | Such a clause has much the same effect as one which excludes liability for breach and in Anglo-Continental Holidays Ltd v Typaldos Lines ( London ) Ltd [ 1967 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 61 Lord Denning MR indicated that he would not be prepared to allow a party to rely on such a clause to change the whole nature of the contract . |
| 24 | say basically the same thing ; that , as emperor , he has the power to do a lot of damage and that power can quickly corrupt men , however noble or good they seem to start off . |
| 25 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 26 | Curiously , Houghton makes no reference to McClellan , although his work covers much the same ground . |
| 27 | Did all these guitarists want basically the same kind of modifications ? |
| 28 | English seems to obtain much the same effect with the to infinitive as subject . |
| 29 | England has approximately the same land area as New York State , Scotland the same area as South Carolina , and Wales the same as Massachusetts . |
| 30 | Other words may be used legitimately in several kinds of contexts , e.g. " to run " in English : Within each of the above groups , the word " run " has approximately the same meaning . |