Example sentences of "of [adv] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council of Europe , an international organisation of European states , of much the same character as the United Nations Organisation , is in no way a part of the constitution of the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Finally , the tessellation of the latter , although comprising tesserae of much the same size as those in the former , presents perceptible differences in the shape of tesserae ( often jagged ) , and uses fewer tesserae to cover a given area . |
| 3 | Germany also began during the first years of the twentieth century to make some patchy and sporadic provision of much the same kind for her trade interests abroad . |
| 4 | She wore a bulky mock-leather jacket of much the same colour as the local brick , a tweed skirt and even in that light , wrap-around sunglasses . |
| 5 | But surely Stevenson greatly underestimates the place which the attitude theory can allow for rationality in ethics of much the same sort as is thought desirable in science , history or philosophy . |
| 6 | The owner was also uncompromisingly twentieth-century , a man of much the same height and age as McLeish but built like a string bean , with brown , short-cut hair and fashionable heavy horn-rimmed spectacles . |
| 7 | Ella Bembridge was a formidably hearty spinster of fifty-five who had lived , with a wilting friend of much the same age , in a small cottage on the Lulling corner of Thrush Green for the past ten years . |
| 8 | In Tuscany and Umbria to this day there are countless hill towns of much the same age as the hill forts of southern England — a few of them much older . |
| 9 | The high degree of stylistic affinity maintained between the pavements from Woodchester , Barton Farm and Stonesfield ( section 5.1 ) does suggest the work of much the same group of craftsmen . |
| 10 | [ Honeymoon , by the way , just in case you ca n't cut the etymological mustard , has only in recent times come to denote a nuptial holiday involving the purchase of duty-free goods and the taking of too many colour prints of exactly the same scene . |
| 11 | In 1623 an elderly Roman organist , Paolo Quagliati ( C. 1555–1628 ) included in his Sfera armoniosa a duetto da camera for two sopranos and violino obligato in three sections distinguished by different characters , different metres , and ( obviously ) different tempi : EX. 87(ii) is a triple-time aria of exactly the same type as those by Berti and d'India just mentioned . |
| 12 | Some owners have observed that two helpings of exactly the same cat food , given at different times on the same day , are treated differently — the first being eaten , the second rejected . |
| 13 | Far better that its messengers take it only to plants of exactly the same kind where the genes it carries will unite with eggs and form seeds . |
| 14 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
| 15 | The Minoans , under the influence of exactly the same drug , may well have had visions of a fantastic , maze-like building , and based the design for the Labyrinth on their visions . |
| 16 | He can however close out the position by simply buying an option of exactly the same description as the one he had previously sold . |
| 17 | People who get in a car when it is stolen are associated with that act and can be convicted of exactly the same offence . |
| 18 | There are massive quartzites of similar type in the Ordovician of other parts of the world , from Bulgaria to the Canadian Rockies , but in my ignorance I will not risk saying that they are of exactly the same age . |
| 19 | Moreover , the Leicester mosaics themselves can hardly be construed as the work of exactly the same group of craftsmen , because the St. Nicholas Street mosaic appears to include work of a standard below that of any in the Blackfriars mosaic ( see section 4.4 ) . |
| 20 | It seems to be made of exactly the same grade of rosewood as the fingerboard and I think a tighter , less coarse grain would have been more attractive . |
| 21 | The most important point , however , that emerged from Hartner 's investigation was that by 503 BC the Babylonian astronomer-priests had discovered that the tropical year ( the year of the seasons ) is not of exactly the same length as the sidereal year ( the ‘ true ’ astronomical year ) . |
| 22 | Likewise , the behaviour of galore should receive a historical explanation of exactly the same sort , being derived from the Gaelic gu leòr , an adverbial phrase that can be translated literally as to sufficiency . |
| 23 | In these the concentration can be changed in situ , whereas fresh solution concentrations of exactly the same volume must be introduced for each measurement in the non dilution Cannon-Fenske . |
| 24 | I tore off the wrapping paper to reveal a framed version of exactly the same photograph we 'd sent to Joe 's dad . |
| 25 | ‘ East or west all woods must fail ’ is then a statement of exactly the same class as ‘ The Road goes ever on and on ’ : literally true , literally unhelpful or even banal , but in its literal truth making a symbolic promise . |
| 26 | And yet Victoria has accused me of exactly the same sin as I am so lightly attributing elsewhere ( incidentally , to people who are more fiction than fact ) . |
| 27 | Recent researchers , such as H.L. Miles ( 1983 ) , claim to have had more luck but even then , giving them the benefit of every doubt , ‘ there remains a large gap between the signing of these trained apes and the speech of children who have vocabularies of approximately the same size ’ ( Griffin 1984 : 199 ) . |
| 28 | First the mouth will split , giving rise to a disc with two orifices , which gradually move apart , then the disc itself begins to divide , starting at the edges and moving inward until two polyps of approximately the same size are produced . |
| 29 | A quantity of dance-music for it is preserved , imperfectly , in the so-called ‘ Walsingham Consort Books ’ of approximately the same date , and the combination is depicted accompanying the wedding masque in the Henry Unton memorial painting of a few years later . |
| 30 | The entertainments industry faces a similar peak of approximately the same duration and timing . |