Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] the 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 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 14 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 15 | But Morton Pitt 's Preventive Station and the Battery would have looked much the same 30 years earlier . |
| 16 | He must have done exactly the same thing as I did when the panic hit him . |
| 17 | I would have done exactly the same thing in her shoes , ’ says Joe . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset . |
| 22 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I could have found exactly the same clothes and expressions anywhere in the United Kingdom that night of course . |
| 28 | ‘ He proved us wrong and we 've apologised , but I think most parents would have reacted exactly the same way . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |