Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | One question which has concerned psycholinguists for many years is why there exist in English ( and in other languages ) several alternative syntactic options ( or paraphrases ) for expressing essentially the same information . |
| 2 | Figure 3.3 shows that the Japanese ‘ transplants ’ in the USA have significantly better productivity and quality than their local rivals , despite using roughly the same wage rates for US labour . |
| 3 | It now makes perfect sense to give a remedy that is capable of bringing about the same or very similar healing responses , that is symptoms , to the healing response which is occurring in the patient as shown by his individual symptoms . |
| 4 | So we did n't have to go all the way to Lime Street , Liverpool , Chapman , with his characteristic attention to such details , had arranged for the train to make a special stop at Edgehill Station , to give us a better chance of getting home the same night . |
| 5 | No one was doing anything and I thought , ‘ Well , hell , I 'm guilty of doing exactly the same thing as everybody else is doing . |
| 6 | Dollo 's Law is really just a statement about the statistical improbability of following exactly the same evolutionary trajectory twice ( or , indeed , any particular trajectory ) , in either direction . |
| 7 | Do you really think that was a coincidence-gravity pulling on the Shuttle harder like that so both of you end up doing exactly the same thing ? |
| 8 | That kind of thing irked her , as did the difference in pay between women and men for doing practically the same work . |
| 9 | But they 're paid half as much as their continental colleagues for doing exactly the same job . |
| 10 | At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come . |
| 11 | With bigger overheads , these have to charge economical fees and can often be undercut by the medium agencies in doing exactly the same programme of work . |
| 12 | Because comparison is generally more important in science than the determination of an absolute value , we are generally involved in observing either the same sample at two different points of time between which X occurs , or two different samples at the same point in time , only one having been subjected to X. |
| 13 | If you have trouble in finding exactly the same varieties , you local nursery should be able to suggest some good alternatives . |
| 14 | Alcohol does not mimic a neurotransmitter , but at least some of its effects come from messing up the same synapses that heroin works on . |
| 15 | It also prevents one from churning out the same stuff of conversation over a long period to different people ( to use words at people ) which is using those people as hard reflective surfaces and not , as I feel properly , soft digestive reflective surfaces . |
| 16 | However , the Regional Development Officer of the housing association insisted on carrying out the same thorough appraisal of its potential that had been applied to the previous buildings . |
| 17 | There are , the article reveals , scientists who pad a reference list of their publications by publishing almost the same material in several journals , altering the title a bit , dropping a paragraph or adding one , or doing the same with a table or graph . |
| 18 | First by recognising exactly the same addictive processes in themselves as in any primary sufferer . |