Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the northern bank of the firth lies the fertile Carse of Gowrie , the word carse meaning much the same as haugh — a stretch of alluvial levels beside a river . |
| 2 | This is very much the same as sample 3 , but the tucking needles are now tucking for two rows before knitting two rows . |
| 3 | Sex : Much the same as career , only considerably more enjoyable . |
| 4 | With quite minor additions and subtractions the actual wood substance has in all cases about the same chemical constitution and about the same density of ninety pounds per cubic foot ( that is , much the same as sugar — say 1.5 ) . |
| 5 | When I did start in ‘ 73 it was very much the same as trade effluent but the sewers were open , if you like . |
| 6 | The temperature of his skin was so much the same as mine I hardly knew we touched , yet I remained very still , my hands laid on his shoulders with the exaggerated formality of one learning to dance . |
| 7 | When I told her what was troubling me she just gave me a piece of clean rag and said more or less the same as Mum had . |
| 8 | Because it 's er you know more or less the same as estate agents in terms of look alike . |
| 9 | The problem always is to identify myths that support a mature life from those which distort the quality of living and mobilise only the less than adult , managerial capacities and capabilities of individuals in their work roles . |
| 10 | Success for capital is not necessarily the same as success for labour or for a local economy . |
| 11 | It 's almost exactly the same … we get everything we need for the notes written on the board so we can just copy it down … so it 's just the same as school , except the homework — when you do those problem sheets , they do n't bother to mark it . |
| 12 | But take waterproofs just the same as rainfall is usually high — up to 60 inches a year in the Presely Hills . |
| 13 | A good proportion of Rousettus 's clicks are clearly audible to us ( which by definition makes them sound rather than ultrasound : ultrasound is just the same as sound except that it is too high for humans to hear ) . |
| 14 | So you should know how to spell carriage another time , it 's exactly the same as marriage |
| 15 | In all honesty I think they are exactly the same as newpaper reports in that if a team wins 3–0 or 4–0 they automatically say it was a trouncing , and then dredge up ‘ facts ’ to evidence their overall assumption . |
| 16 | Exactly the same as copy , but there 's one difference . |
| 17 | Curiously , weight for weight , the Young 's modulus of timbers is almost exactly the same as steel and aluminium and much better than synthetic resins . |
| 18 | Sow the seed in early to mid-spring , or late summer , preferably the latter as viability falls rapidly , outdoors where they are to grow — chervil does not do well if transplanted . |
| 19 | Input is not always the same as output . |
| 20 | It was always the same when trade was booming at the local wharves , and as the convoys of horsecarts and lorries lined up along Cotton Lane so the cafe became even fuller . |
| 21 | Their calcium carbonate skeletons are composed of the mineral aragonite , chemically the same as calcite , but with the atoms arranged in a different way . |
| 22 | Jurassic reef coral , Stylina alveolata This massive coral is now composed of calcite It has been recrystallized , because in life it was composed of the mineral aragonite — chemically the same as calcite , but with a different crystal structure . |
| 23 | We are therefore at liberty to choose unc and then unc Elimination of p , 1 from these three equations yields unc Note that , since unc this is precisely the same as Equation ( 3 ) ; however , in the iteration case , it is only true when the iterations have proceeded sufficiently far for the terms in 3 , 4 to disappear , when cs consists only of p . |
| 24 | So , learning is not quite the same as education . |
| 25 | Role is not quite the same as position ( or job ) . |
| 26 | It has been pointed out that the last type of liability is not quite the same as liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher in that the thing accumulated on the land does not itself escape . |
| 27 | Re-using things , re-using things is almost the same as recycling is n't it ? |