Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | At just 24p , the chocolate treat is cheaper here than anywhere else in the world , except America where it costs the same . |
| 2 | The problem is , however , that it is of little help in producing a list of user needs : the temptation would be to say either that everyone requires the same information or that everyone requires different information ; the former would make the exercise redundant and the latter would make it impossible to handle . |
| 3 | The economist 's definition of public goods relies solely on the fact that everyone consumes the same quantity . |
| 4 | Such scepticism seems academic against the working assurance that everyone means the same by ‘ The bus is late ’ and ‘ It 's going to rain' . |
| 5 | You 're always afraid that somebody buys the same presents . |
| 6 | Phil : Well I would say that if I had my life over again I wish and hope that everything happens the same , and I think at the end of the day Becky had been the cream on top of the cake … |
| 7 | The Etude retrouvée that he also plays is one that the composer did not use in the final set ; although it has the same title and key as Pour les arpèges composés , it is otherwise quite different and a splendid piece which pianists will look forward to seeing in print . |
| 8 | Attempting to copy a decorative technique can confirm or disprove that it produces the same appearance and microstructure observed on the original item . |
| 9 | It should be carefully controlled so that it has the same character at all times , and is in perfect accord with the composer 's aesthetic objectives . |
| 10 | It is possible , therefore , to construct a sample so that it has the same distribution of characteristics as the population as a whole or , if necessary , selected portions of it . |
| 11 | We ca n't say that it occupies the same addresses in all species , because we ca n't meaningfully compare address labels across species . |
| 12 | I can assert of the oldest tree in the park ( if there is such a tree ) that it is an oak , but I can also say of the sentence " The oldest tree in the park is an oak " that it means the same , or that it expresses same thought as , say , its French or Chinese translation , irrespective of whether it says anything true . |
| 13 | Communication is not achieved by putting something that means — one thing to us in front of someone else and hoping that it means the same thing to that other person . |
| 14 | If the same word is used in more than one place in a document , it will be assumed that it means the same thing each time it appears . |
| 15 | A speaker somehow ‘ translates ’ his ideas or thoughts into spoken or written signs , he ‘ encodes ’ them , and the hearer translates them back again , he ‘ decodes ’ them , so that he has the same thoughts , near enough , as the speaker . |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I say that he has the same problem with me that I have with the Whips Office . |
| 17 | But , internally , you need to make sure that your auditors and your , and everyone understands the same thing . |
| 18 | ‘ I usually travel with an assistant from my management company and she does the same so we look a fine pair , both of us sitting there with dozens of jars in front of us , but it does the trick ; it takes my mind off the fact that we are 30,000 feet in the air at the time . |
| 19 | So you would need to look carefully at her stories and other writing , and see if she makes the same kind of mistake here . |
| 20 | At first it looks like name-dropping until one finds the same sort of thing in Athenaeus or Aelian . |
| 21 | Polarisation in Israel there certainly is , but if one applies the same broad definition of ‘ moderate ’ and ‘ extremist ’ to the Israelis as one does to the Palestinians , one can not but conclude that precisely the reverse situation prevails among them , that it is their Jibrils and Abu Musas — or religious fundamentalists in the Hamas mould — who hold sway . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , and he feels the same way . |
| 23 | As they sway and raise their arms , he sees thirty pairs of large breasts and he imagines the same quantity of round thighs rolling and separating under the cassocks which he has had sent from Raleigh . |
| 24 | ‘ Mickey has played at the highest level and he gets the same thing out of the game as he has always done . |
| 25 | If you notice , when he speaks he tends to run words together towards the end of sentences and he does the same when he writes . ’ |
| 26 | And he does the same job as you ? |
| 27 | and he wants the same facility with his left as with his right . |
| 28 | The social anthropologist is equally , of course , an entrepreneur whose special expertise lies in mediating between exotic cultures and his own , and he has the same vested interests as other go-betweens . |
| 29 | He looks like Sir Hugo , and he has the same evil character . |
| 30 | Go down to the bottom and it does the same to go to the top . |