Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop . |
| 2 | And I would make just the same kind of point about the word " family " . |
| 3 | His intention is to experience an ‘ as if ’ context — in a game two friends may agree to behave as if they are opponents ; in drama two friends may make exactly the same agreement . |
| 4 | Provided you know how to use it , a cheap hand-held version will do much the same thing . ’ |
| 5 | Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored . |
| 6 | Should you decide to consult a professional aromatherapist ( see the list of professional bodies in the appendix ) , do not expect exactly the same treatment from every aromatherapist . |
| 7 | and as the same thing applies to the knee exactly the same thing , wound there you keep the knee bent a little bit and you can do exactly the same bandage like a figure of eight , okay ? |
| 8 | You would do exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 9 | Now they 're helping us do exactly the same thing a couple of hundred years on . |
| 10 | It 's erm in fact a quote from Wilson , the founder of Socio-biology , the mo in other words modern er Darwinism as oppo as , as a applied to animal behaviour and Wilson 's point in saying that sex is an anti-social force in evolution was to suggest that what is really happening is that if natural selection is a question of the reproductive success of individual genes , then individuals should be motivated to produce as many copies of those genes as they possibly can , and that will inevitably bring them into competition with other members of the species who wan na do exactly the same thing . |
| 11 | Mind you , I suppose if the others were in they 'd do exactly the same thing would n't they ? |
| 12 | Equations ( 6.9 ) and ( 6.15 ) will give exactly the same value for the share price . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , people do not feel quite the same craving to buy products made of recycled materials . |
| 14 | Members of the public , that is : public figures , says the report , need not expect quite the same degree of sanctuary . |
| 15 | It was a great experience but I 'm not sure I 'd do precisely the same trip again . ’ |
| 16 | To refer to a method we shall be discussing more fully in Chapter 3 , we can see much the same sort of development with respect to the survey . |
| 17 | Visualize how it is going to fit in with its neighbours : the stems may be rough-trimmed , but you will prune them later in early spring , not now , and then the new growth will follow much the same line of the present branches . |
| 18 | Raising a languid hand towards a grey-haired woman seated in an armchair beside the dog , and who looked as though she might patronise just the same sort of charity shops as Ellie herself , he introduced , ‘ My mother . ’ |
| 19 | Each writer does not follow exactly the same order in the arrangement of his material . |
| 20 | So you can do you can use exactly the same system you used on that for working out each one and see what happens . |
| 21 | One ‘ slot ’ can be home to as many as five satellites as long as they do not use exactly the same frequency . |
| 22 | Ecological theory holds that no two species can occupy exactly the same niche . |
| 23 | ‘ I was thinking I 'd like exactly the same thing , ’ she confessed , giving him a radiant smile . |
| 24 | Notice also that there is an alternative and syntactically simpler way of expressing the second version , which is : ( 12 ) Haberup angered his golem We can see exactly the same type of ambiguity in : ( 13 ) Reg ran the engine dry The adverbal adjective version of ( 13 ) corresponding to the question what did Reg do to the engine ? tells us that Reg reduced the engine to a certain unsatisfactory state ( though he may at least have had the sense to stop at that point ) . |
| 25 | The eyes that see ourselves see always the same creature throughout life ; in our own mind the child and the youth and the mature man are the same . |
| 26 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 27 | ‘ Dead ’ saints could perform exactly the same function as living ones . |
| 28 | To be able to compare results from the simulator with those previously obtained on the road it was decided to have subjects perform precisely the same judgment tasks that had been used in Study 1 , giving ratings of subjective risk and estimates of accident statistics . |
| 29 | This borrowed item , no doubt bequeathed by some burly and well-meaning district commissioner , does not possess quite the same significance in this ambience as it had in its original context . |
| 30 | In principle for any word bearing an inflectional affix , it is possible to find contexts where all possible substitutes must contain either the same affix , or one belonging to the same closed set : consider the possible substitutes for walked in Cedric walked home , longer in Mine is longer than yours or books in those books . |