Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Simpson , former Deputy Permanent Secretary at the DES , and ironically in charge of planning for almost a decade , has argued cogently the same case for more resources for primary schools as a result of the introduction of Local Management of Schools . |
| 2 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang as singles players , but neither has made quite the same impact as yet . |
| 3 | A : In terms of the number of pieces sold in Japan , this has stayed virtually the same as last year , and we remain the leader in this important market . |
| 4 | It means that in the last four years , the building cost average has jumped by almost 20 points , while the tender average has stayed virtually the same . |
| 5 | near starvation wages , wretched housing , benevolent paternalism or arbitrarian despotism and anti-trade-union oppression … that it now … seems difficult to believe that , despite the amelioration of his circumstances , in relative terms the position of the agricultural worker has remained substantially the same . |
| 6 | Fashion may dictate a change in cut and fabric from time to time , but the archetypal businessman 's suit has remained basically the same . |
| 7 | The latest issue of the Government 's annual Social Trends shows that while the level of rail travel has remained much the same for 30 years , car travel has increased fourfold . |
| 8 | As Mather ( 1987 ) observes , the forest area of the USA has remained roughly the same since c. 1920 but annual growth rate has increased by 350 per cent more than in 1920 . |
| 9 | He told me he 'd said much the same to you . ’ |
| 10 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 11 | I once spent six months as a PR person , and I 'm not getting caught twice the same way . |
| 12 | But we get killed just the same by the Provies . |
| 13 | But Morton Pitt 's Preventive Station and the Battery would have looked much the same 30 years earlier . |
| 14 | He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him . |
| 15 | I would have done exactly the same thing in her shoes , ’ says Joe . |
| 16 | Surely , having gone completely against what is standard medical advice for a hiatus hernia , he would have done exactly the same had his heart been suspect . |
| 17 | It 'll be interesting if we could find out erm actually what prices are because if he 's a good he would have said exactly the same thing to . |
| 18 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 19 | If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset . |
| 20 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
| 21 | Sir you 'll have seen the County Planning Officer 's own report on these matters and you 'll have seen exactly the same comments which I 've made contained in that report . |
| 22 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 23 | It could be argued that interviews with competent librarians and subject specialists in these fields , or even examination of the holdings lists of specialist libraries in these subjects , would have produced exactly the same journal lists as have been arrived at by co-citation analysis , at a much lower cost . |
| 24 | I can put a point rather more crudely than the Lord put it , but I realise that the present Government find it inconceivable , one day they will be in opposition , but I do wonder if they would have shown quite the same enthusiasm for this solution if it had been forthcoming from a Labour Government . |
| 25 | I could have found exactly the same clothes and expressions anywhere in the United Kingdom that night of course . |
| 26 | ‘ He proved us wrong and we 've apologised , but I think most parents would have reacted exactly the same way . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I could have quoted basically the same words from almost any Jehovah 's Witness tract , but I choose this book because a reputable publisher ( Pan Books Ltd ) saw fit to publish it , despite a very large number of errors which would quickly have been spotted if an unemployed biology graduate , or indeed undergraduate , had been asked to glance through the manuscript . |
| 29 | This means that the initial state of the universe would have to have had exactly the same temperature everywhere in order to account for the fact that the microwave background has the same temperature in every direction we look . |
| 30 | The employment opportunities for working-class girls — whether in factory work or in domestic service — would not appear to have excited either the same sympathy or alarm . |