Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] the same " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However , if the arbitrage portfolios tend to contain roughly the same subset of shares , there will be little direct pressure on the prices of the remaining constituents of the index . |
| 2 | Vogts is expected to field largely the same team at Ibrox which played against Uruguay . |
| 3 | This argument , which Foucault derives from Deleuze , although at the same time he tellingly invokes Sartre 's theoretical formulation designed to solve exactly the same problem , provides a way of avoiding the incommensurability of the relation of the event to the concept by allowing ‘ the disjunctive affirmation of both ’ — thus solving the problem that the concept , as a part of the language of generality , will inevitably travesty the event 's singularity : |
| 4 | However , all the inhabitants will be expected to pay roughly the same regardless of their income . |
| 5 | And there was perhaps not so much to laugh at in that ; for by North 's trial , two and a half years after the breaking of the scandal , the overwhelming majority of Americans had come to feel much the same way . |
| 6 | Ace was n't willing to trust Dubois further than she could throw him , since he seemed to use much the same methods as their enemies ; perhaps that meant he was no better than them . |
| 7 | [ He will say later , ‘ If I 'd relaxed the standard there I 'd have had umpteen other people knocking on the door wanting to do precisely the same thing to save on trade effluent charges . ’ ] |
| 8 | Thus , Members of Parliament may be said to occupy much the same position with respect to the nationalised industries as do shareholders with respect to a joint stock company . |
| 9 | They all manage to look much the same . |
| 10 | Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past . |
| 11 | How can we achieve a new look when some things are going to stay exactly the same ? |
| 12 | And I think we 're going to have exactly the same thing with this opting out system . |
| 13 | Especially when all the lenders seem to have roughly the same mortgage interest rate on offer to borrowers most of the time ? |
| 14 | I have no doubt that those same consumers , when exercising their choice about what to buy , will want to be absolutely sure that products imported to the United Kingdom have had to undergo precisely the same levels of checks and monitoring as products exported from the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | At the same time , the bladder becomes less able to sterilise urine and the urine is less concentrated , so more fluids are needed to take away the same amount of waste ( see incontinence , pages 70 to 76 ) . |
| 16 | What you actually do is you pay off the loan gradually over that peri period of twenty years , so you get from that point to that point and it 's , it 's sort of level to start with , you 're paying mainly interest off and not much capital , so when you get a statement from the building society , you still seem to owe virtually the same that you started with . |
| 17 | Laughing and laughin' or [ ga:d ] and [ go:d ] can more convincingly be shown to be used to say referentially the same thing than any pair of postulated synonymous syntactic constructions such as the liquor store was broken into versus they broke into the liquor store . |
| 18 | And we intend to do exactly the same this year . |
| 19 | English seems to obtain much the same effect with the to infinitive as subject . |
| 20 | It is n't a good idea to draw a sketch first of how you want the finished work to look , since it never seems to look quite the same when it is finished . |
| 21 | It is fascinating to speculate on the reactions of the Eritreans to the spectacle of a man asking to have again the same conversations and introductions , this time with four or five other men holding cameras , lights and recorders . |
| 22 | At the start you need very fine control over the board to enable you to manoeuvre into position whilst all the other competitors try to do exactly the same . |
| 23 | Although both sides continued to use much the same arguments after 1900 as they had before , the question of competition was given a completely new dimension and greater urgency by the appearance of the first Monotype machines . |
| 24 | First she had allowed herself to be manipulated by Ace , and now her father was trying to do exactly the same thing . |
| 25 | A symmetric arms race is one between competitors trying to do roughly the same thing as each other . |
| 26 | Reced er the precedent for the situation that we are in now , yes indeed there is one and it was when er the Labour government was last in power in nineteen seventy eight , when we had er er er to er set up the European constituencies we had a limited time to do it in and all the countries in Europe had to agree to bring forward the same kind of agreement and put it into effect at the same time . |
| 27 | Now , says Larder , Bobby must learn to do exactly the same |
| 28 | And meanwhile Greece has to reckon with the fact that Turkey , on the other side of the Aegean , is planning to lure exactly the same sort of middle-class tourist with exactly the same combination of sunshine , classical ruins and mildly exotic food — and , it must be added , with lower costs and beaches many of which are less in need of de-whiffing . |
| 29 | There is a version of this where the children have to move forward the same number of paces as the time called out by the shark . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |