Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] precisely the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was thus occupied by precisely the same ambition which had driven Vasco Núñez four and a half centuries before .
2 The stream of expected earnings is discounted in precisely the same way as the stream of expected dividends using the same discount rate ( because the discount rate applies to the risk class of the activities of the entire firm ) .
3 In French cookery clarified beef suet , pigs ' lard and goose fat are used in precisely the same way to seal pâtés and home-preserved pork and goose .
4 Near synonyms are most common , with true synonyms ( which mean exactly the same thing and which are used in precisely the same context ) being more unusual .
5 The two successive episodes of Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet collapse began at precisely the same time as the climate shifts that are recorded in the Greenland ice core ( within the cited uncertainty ) .
6 It is unusual outside some strictly regulated professional courses to find two courses covering the same content ; it would be difficult to find two that have exactly the same pattern of assessment ; and impossible to find two that are taught in precisely the same way .
7 The fair price of the stock index futures contract can be calculated in precisely the same way as with the other contracts .
8 Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies .
9 Suspects and witnesses have special characteristics that will not be found in precisely the same mix in other randomly chosen members of the population and can not , therefore , be precisely re-enacted with others .
10 ‘ By an astonishing coincidence in the examiners ’ model solution precisely the same piece of goobledegook appears at precisely the same point . ’
11 But , as the focal length of the projector increases , making the screen image smaller , the focal length of the camera lens is increasing at precisely the same rate ( zoom lenses commonly run from about 25mm to over 200mm in focal length ) .
12 Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser .
13 Both boats are aimed at precisely the same market .
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