Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankfurters are the most widely known of all the scalded sausages , and many other varieties such as Bockwurst , Knackwurst and Weinerwurst are really the same thing but in different sizes . |
| 2 | A hundred years on and the scene at Balcombe is much the same ; trains faster and far more frequent are still thundering through the tunnel but without the cheering villagers to wave them on their way . |
| 3 | The picture in extra-mural departments and the WEA is much the same , as the liberal tradition fights a rearguard collapse in the name of ‘ education for its own sake ’ in the face of enormous government and institutional pressure to become cost-effective . |
| 4 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the reasons why we are updating Trident are basically the same reasons as caused the Labour Government to update our nuclear deterrent by bringing in Chevaline , the difference being that we are doing it openly and they did it under wraps ? |
| 5 | Based on the 93.7ins platform of the new three-door Tercel , the Paseo is roughly the same size as the CRX , but more practical . |
| 6 | Dawyck Haig 's son Alexander was much the same age as Alastair and when the two were old enough we used to have fathers ' and sons ' tennis and golf matches . |
| 7 | Some three hundred kilometres in a north-westerly direction , the Faroe Islands are roughly the same distance from Shetland as are Aberdeen to the south and Bergen in Norway to the east . |
| 8 | The principles set by the schools on both sides of the Atlantic are effectively the same ; they are vocational training centres which make use of speed-learning techniques in a high-energy learning environment . |
| 9 | Bloxham High Street is much the same in 1992 as 1946 . |
| 10 | The marks of a corporation are : perpetual succession , i.e. the death or withdrawal of members , or the addition of new members from time to time , does not impair the continuity and identity of the body : ‘ in like manner ’ , as Blackstone says , ‘ the river Thames is still the same river , though the parts which comprise it are changing every instant' ; the use of a common seal as evidence of at least the more formal acts of the corporation ; and the capacity to sue and be sued by its corporate name . |
| 11 | It seems to me that the indication you have given on the key diagram to alteration number three for Harrogate Knaresborough is exactly the same as for example the indication given for York and for Harrogate Knaresborough southern on the approved key diagram . |
| 12 | Having studied the text and read critical appreciations of it , my natural reaction to Satan is still the same as it was when he first appeared to me . |
| 13 | ‘ Stephen 's exactly the same . |
| 14 | Porto was much the same , even with compulsory handling . |
| 15 | Fred 's having it off with Diane and it can never get stuck on again , that 's what happens if you — it can happen , the dreadful already has , you mark my words , I think they 're very nice , dear , now do n't you worry , that broom will never sweep again , do n't let him get away with it , it can happen with your shoes off , I should take him back , dear , he who hesitates is lost , you can get lots of laughs with the vicar , should have seen it , one good turn deserves another , niggers in the broom cupboard , Mavis was just the same , what a shame … ’ |
| 16 | And we are left with the problem of deciding whether or not the two Elizabeths baptised on 17 October were really the same girl . |
| 17 | Further , since we will want to use our laws to transform subcomponents of compound programs , P = Q must imply that C[P] is essentially the same as C[Q] for all contexts C[. ] ( programs with a slot in which to place a program segment ) . |
| 18 | Sunday 's just the same thinking and wondering . |
| 19 | ‘ Hartlepool is always the same and I 'd have no objection at all to doing that . |
| 20 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 21 | Both his mother and sister said Mr Lee was never the same person after spending time in prison . |
| 22 | The other rivers from the Pennines are roughly the same size . |
| 23 | RUM PUNCH — Elmore Leonard ( Viking , £14.99 ) This year 's Leonard is exactly the same as last year 's , except for a different plot . |
| 24 | Daak was always the same : without reference to the-creed , colour , gender or opinions of whoever happened to be around , he was rude , randy , rebellious and always ready for a fight . |
| 25 | Sara and Patsy are much the same age and are very fond of each other . |
| 26 | Although small by comparison to some of the latest generation sports cars , the Suzuki is almost the same size as the famed MG Midget , launched more than 30 years ago and which , for two decades personified motoring fun . |
| 27 | Their view is that the after-tax cost of capital in America , Britain and Japan is roughly the same for companies posing similar risks , after adjusting for inflation , government barriers to the flow of capital and currency risk . |
| 28 | De Gaulle 's argument against Mendès-France was essentially the same that he had used against Eisenhower in Strasbourg a few months earlier : circumstances matter . |
| 29 | The procedure for turning up Halsbury is much the same as for Statutes in Force . |
| 30 | The penetrance ( probability of having the disease for given genotype expressed as P ( disease/genotype ) ) of the abnormal allele A' was almost the same for the liability classes above class 1 , being 0.26 in the heterozygote or homozygote for the highest incidence groups . |