Example sentences of "[adv] on the same scale as " in BNC.

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1 Lord Scarman 's inquiry was not on the same scale as the famous Kerner Report in 1968 on the US riots , but since the publication of his Report in November 1981 his views and prescriptions have played an important role in fashioning political debate about the riots .
2 Despite the repression practised by the Somoza regime in Nicaragua , its legacy of under-development was not on the same scale as that left by some 400 years of Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique .
3 Throughout the Eighties , museum-building spread like a fever from the centre to the provinces , not on the same scale as in Germany ( see The Art Newspaper survey No. 13 , Dec. 1991 , pp.6–7 ) but with schemes of similar grandeur .
4 As was said earlier , since the Piper Alpha incident there has been a succession of serious incidents in the North sea , although obviously not on the same scale as Piper Alpha .
5 Whilst not on the same scale as in Paris , an open day was held earlier this year in the Crown Court at Teesside .
6 ‘ They campaigned throughout the 19th century for ladies ' lavatories , which were gradually introduced — but never on the same scale as the gents . ’
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