Example sentences of "[verb] exactly the same [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A badly-sorted deposit gives a low , broad curve , whereas a well sorted deposit , which has exactly the same range of fragment sizes , gives a single very well-defined peak . |
| 3 | In steady conditions this is an entirely fair way to start ; a board starting early through the gate has exactly the same chance of reaching the first mark as the last boat through . |
| 4 | My authority receives half as much in grant as an authority such as Manchester to provide exactly the same level of teaching service . |
| 5 | When Peter makes the point that the non-Jews have received exactly the same gift of the Holy Spirit as the Jewish Christians , the logic is inescapable . |
| 6 | It is much more nearly true to say that no two patients ever show exactly the same constellation of symptoms . |
| 7 | But why not , if both players receive exactly the same share of prizemoney , to which the Board have geared the fines anyway ? |
| 8 | What is striking about the Heseltines is that both register exactly the same expression of expectant acceptance . |
| 9 | The head gardener at Chilton at the turn of the century , Charles Beckett , had a brother , Edwin , also a head gardener , and both men built exactly the same design of fruit house in their respective gardens . |
| 10 | He asked if I was a friend of the other young chap who had made exactly the same enquiry of him ten days ago . ’ |
| 11 | West Sussex and east Hampshire have probably had exactly the same sequence of movements of sea level , but the signs of submergence are not so strongly marked . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The remarkable thing is that one gets exactly the same kind of fringes if one replaces the source of light by a source of particles such as electrons with a definite speed ( this means that the corresponding waves have a definite length ) . |
| 14 | I came into the G M B and heard exactly the same kind of derogatory comments about the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 15 | With bigger overheads , these have to charge economical fees and can often be undercut by the medium agencies in doing exactly the same programme of work . |
| 16 | That is , constraining the γ coefficients to zero in equation ( 6.11 ) will produce exactly the same sum of square residuals as in equation ( 6.10 ) when the γ coefficients are constrained to zero . |
| 17 | And meanwhile Greece has to reckon with the fact that Turkey , on the other side of the Aegean , is planning to lure exactly the same sort of middle-class tourist with exactly the same combination of sunshine , classical ruins and mildly exotic food — and , it must be added , with lower costs and beaches many of which are less in need of de-whiffing . |
| 18 | He found it and rang it , giving exactly the same sort of excuse as Eleanor 's . |
| 19 | This was particularly for people who have not been in hospital , but who may have exactly the same sort of needs as the people who are the focus of the particular project . |
| 20 | I had 260 gallons in my tanks , although we both had exactly the same amount of fuel when we took off from Wake Island in the morning . |
| 21 | When I eventually arrived back at Duxford , I had exactly the same amount of fuel on board that I flew out with ! ’ |
| 22 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | No two languages have exactly the same set of phonemes , the same combinations of phonemes , or the same variants of phonemes . |