Example sentences of "by [adv] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , and by much the same token , we would condemn any suggestion that there is merit in regulation almost for its own sake : our justification for regulation can be only some real need to prevent what is unfair or damaging . |
| 2 | Warrants on shares rise and fall by approximately the same amount in pence as the share price , but by a much larger percentage of their trading price . |
| 3 | Expenditure in the year had increased by exactly the same percentage as income , with almost half of the increase attributable to modernisation and the building of new lifeboat stations . |
| 4 | Every year they take exactly the same route as previous generations , for all are influenced by exactly the same topography . |
| 5 | History , in fact , works by exactly the same structure of supplementarity as Derrida charts in Of Grammatology . |
| 6 | By exactly the same reasoning , it would be predicted that a patient who reads pint with a short i ( a regularisation error ) would fail to understand this word , because the only route to understanding print is via pronunciation , and the patient 's pronunciation represents a non-word ( pint with a short i ) . |
| 7 | The proportions of convictions varied by nearly the same degree . |
| 8 | It was opposed , on the French side , by virtually the same principle which , for all the emotional resurgence of Jacobin principles that may have suffused France at the end of the war , had faded by comparison with the raw and remorseless nationalism that was waiting to engulf the French from one end of Vietnam to the other . |
| 9 | When Eliot became a Christian in 1927 he declared that he found in reading Paul Elmer More , with whose Shelburne Essays he had shown familiarity in 1916 , the work of someone who had travelled by almost the same route , to virtually the same conclusions . |
| 10 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 11 | I was thus occupied by precisely the same ambition which had driven Vasco Núñez four and a half centuries before . |