Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In 1961 it was already overwhelmingly the nation 's ‘ main activity ’ in the evening , and the BBC study establishing that fact produced much the same figures when repeated in 1975 ( BBC , 1976 ) .
2 Nevertheless the Hena villagers , in their ordinary lives , led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers .
3 Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday .
4 As I have suggested , up to a generation ago a common form of life united sixth-form and university English , regardless of whether their orientation was ‘ Oxford ’ or ‘ Cambridge ’ , since the latter made much the same assumptions about literacy and competence as the former .
5 The opposition leader , Mr Vaclav Havel , made much the same point about the new Prime Minister by stating that he had failed to attract much attention over two years in government office .
6 If we used only the same newspapers then we would miss new developments which added to the range , while if we did add to the sample then we were not comparing like with like .
7 This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " .
8 Transmission was by reverse-battery polarity , a simple yet efficient way of ensuring that dots and dashes used exactly the same voltage .
9 Tolkien said that he ‘ disliked ’ Shakespeare ‘ cordially ’ , but he used exactly the same phrase of allegory too , where it concealed an opinion of some subtlety .
10 Evelyn took a deep breath and drew exactly the same H as before .
11 Oh yes , erm I went to a comprehensive co-educational school and found exactly the same thing .
12 His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi .
13 Erm and his claim that in fact the regional draft regional guidance er that has emerged is consistent with this alteration , is not really surprising since the same parties drew up the same document .
14 I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder .
15 This is not necessarily so : the US used roughly the same amount of energy each year from 1973 to 1985 , while its gross domestic product grew by more than a third .
16 This Government 's record , as well as that of our predecessors who pursued precisely the same policy , shows some success in delivering the objective that both parties have espoused — reduced tobacco consumption .
17 The obscure and the struggling got just the same treatment .
18 ( 1 ) Waqar Younis shared exactly the same ball with England prospect Martin Bicknell only last year when they played for Surrey .
19 I experienced exactly the same difficulty with my Panasonic printer when , like William , I upgraded to Windows 3.1 and Word 2 .
20 That women writers all suffered the same disadvantages , entertained approximately the same ambitions , and approached their writing out of basically the same experiences is manifestly untrue .
21 When in 1967 E. R. Leach made exactly the same point on the BBC , there was a national uproar with bishops and pundits of all kinds fulminating in the newspapers against the impiety of the idea , in much the same way that they had done against Engels almost a hundred years before .
22 And she went through the same circum got exactly the same ending .
23 They fulfilled rather the same role as extern sisters in contemplative convents today .
24 In 1985 , Anthony Burgess , perhaps even more controversially , explored much the same territory in The Kingdom of the Wicked .
25 The Council for Civil Liberty , which later became the National Council for Civil Liberty , fulfilled much the same function for mainly middle-class people interested in this subject , and worried by the threat made by fascism to cherished freedoms .
26 They received much the same reaction as we did .
27 The most popular form of reading among the literate poor was , as Dr Vincent has pointed out , one which told much the same tales as did the oral tradition .
28 Russians and Tatars , it was found , were distributed in a broadly similar manner in the occupational hierarchy , received approximately the same remuneration , and were active in socio-political life in virtually the same proportions .
29 I telephoned Frank and adopted exactly the same technique .
30 The underlying picture , which excludes oil and erratic items such as aircraft parts and precious stones , told broadly the same story exports were up 5.2% to £25.7bn and imports climbed 5% to £30.9bn .
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