Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the [det] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With substantially the same staff as the previous year , but without their exciting right-winger , Palace slumped to 15th in the table . |
| 2 | According to another report that was based upon essentially the same data , the spacing of second and higher order births at least two years apart would reduce infant mortality by 10 per cent and the death rate of children aged 1–4 years by 21 per cent . |
| 3 | What is more , careful examination of its proportions has revealed that it belonged to precisely the same species of cat that was later domesticated in Egypt . |
| 4 | The thought that the country might attempt suicide once again , so soon and by much the same means as last time , is almost too painful to contemplate . |
| 5 | The question of why we want it is a psychological one , which we answer by much the same means . |
| 6 | For the priests , in fact , were doing exactly the same trick , and probably by exactly the same means , as the old East Anglian and Scottish horsemen who made out and actually believed that the horse 's immobility was the result of some secret and magical device they had resorted to . |