Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denmark joined the EEC for much the same reasons as the British did : she wished to ensure that she was not excluded from a large ‘ home ’ market , particularly for her agricultural products . |
| 2 | But the other two main additions to the new kingdom — Slovenia and Croatia — had been under the rule of Austria or Hungary for approximately the same period of time . |
| 3 | A good many observers even doubted whether wars between States at approximately the same level of civilization could have any decisive result . |
| 4 | The philosophy of pragmatism flourished in the United States at roughly the same period that the social movements of Fabianism and New Liberalism emerged in Britain . |
| 5 | On Oct. 30 , on the other hand , a report by observers from the Paris-based International League of Human Rights claimed that " an extremely sophisticated method of fraud " had been partly responsible for the IDA getting twice as many National Assembly seats as the PPP with virtually the same share of the popular vote . |
| 6 | She stepped back , massaging her wrist and looking at Hrun in much the same way that a cat watches a mousehole . |
| 7 | Jamieson ( 1986 ) in her study of working-class mothers and daughters in urban Scotland in roughly the same period , found that young adult women living in the parental home would take on domestic work to assist their mothers routinely and extensively , in a way not replicated by their male counterparts . |
| 8 | To register to vote for example , a union citizen must have been resident in Great Britain on the qualifying date of the tenth of October or fifteenth of September for Northern Ireland in exactly the same way as British or other commonwealth citizens and citizens of other member states who wish to be candidates of the elections for the European parliament must conform to the same nomination procedures as candidates have hitherto . |
| 9 | She liked Matilda for exactly the same reasons . |
| 10 | These issues have been debated by American feminists like Linda Nicholson , Nancy Fraser , Christine di Stefano in much the same terms already , and there have been special issues of the journals Feminist Studies and Signs on the topic . |
| 11 | Those words , and in that order of priority , were included in the BBC charter ( and were passed on to ITV in much the same form in 1955 ) . |
| 12 | Curiously , this branch of crime fiction appears to have sprung up independently on either side of the Atlantic at much the same time . |
| 13 | Book Club Europe Drive at the same time as your flight and you could be driving a luxurious Ford Granada Scorpio for exactly the same price as a Ford Sierra 1.6L . |
| 14 | Later French Huguenots were to use the Dutch embassy in Paris in much the same way . |
| 15 | It can not be supposed , then , that the STV would work in the United Kingdom in precisely the same ways as it does in Ireland . |
| 16 | Jacob saw Seb at almost the same time . |
| 17 | The justification for applying this Figure to Mercury with roughly the same time scales will be made in Chapter 8 . |
| 18 | Similar competition multiplied the areas receiving urban programme funding in Britain at roughly the same time . |
| 19 | When Quakers lost at Plainmoor at roughly the same time last season , there was still plenty of encouragement in the performance and they recovered to win the Fourth Division . |
| 20 | Even if you listen out carefully before you transmit , you have no guarantee that another pilot is not going to press his or her PTT at exactly the same moment as you do , with the probable result that both messages are drowned out and the Air Traffic Controller 's ears are assaulted by a high-pitched screech . |
| 21 | The great majority of voters give their first vote either to the CDU/CSU or to the SPD in much the same way as most British voters give their only vote to the Conservatives or Labour : that is where their basic loyalty lies . |
| 22 | The associative process did not work with Rufus in quite the same way as it did with his erstwhile friend , Adam Verne-Smith , for Adam was an ‘ arts ’ person and he a scientist , so that Greek or Spanish names , for instance , evoked none of it . |
| 23 | In truth what really shaped his view was the comparison between Mayo 's film and Fury , which was released by MGM at much the same time . |
| 24 | An India in essentially the same relationship to Britain as the great white dominions which had fought by her side in the world war , voluntarily allied rather than involuntarily subjected , could only be , it was reasoned , an asset to British prestige . |
| 25 | Of the many explanations for the collapse in the ninth century after such intensive cultivation without metals for 6–16 centuries , the most plausible is that it resulted from sustained failures of maize due to a leafhopper-borne virus , maize mosaic virus , which may have originated in northern South America at roughly the same time as maize was brought to the Caribbean by the Arawak about the time of Christ . |
| 26 | And it was n't Sky 's fault that I used to watch better football at Barnet for exactly the same price as the weekly rental price of a satellite dish . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , please ! ’ echoed Clara in exactly the same intonation . |
| 28 | According to Randy Hansen , the people of Seattle look at Hendrix in much the same way as The Beatles are viewed in Liverpool . |
| 29 | After the initial shock I felt in Théovard , I came to regard Jean-Claude 's relations with Otto in much the same light as mine with Émile . |
| 30 | To take one example out of many , the native Englishman D. H. Lawrence reached just the same conclusion as Pound at just the same time , and Lawrence 's letters record it ; he concluded , just as Pound did , that England after the First World War was , for the artist , uninhabitable . |