Example sentences of "same [noun sg] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This supposition has the form of a ‘ regulative hope ’ — both are adopted on the same basis that a card player bases his play on the hope of an improbable distribution of the cards if no other possible distribution gives him any chance of winning at all . |
| 2 | on the same day that a law |
| 3 | I would n't expect it to compete for the funnel-web spider ‘ small but deadly ’ award in the same way that a Mesa Boogie .22 could , but look at the price difference and you 'll appreciate why . |
| 4 | Subject bibliographies are therefore the raw materials of the trade of stock revision , and librarians working on stock revision should seek to acquire a working knowledge of their existence and contents in the same way that a reference librarian is familiar with the major reference tools in the collection . |
| 5 | ‘ She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short ’ — Clive James on Marilyn Monroe . |
| 6 | At worst he was boring , in the same way that a golfer or a photographer or a dinghy-sailor or any other person obsessed by a hobby is boring . |
| 7 | She stepped back , massaging her wrist and looking at Hrun in much the same way that a cat watches a mousehole . |
| 8 | Very often a headache or a stomach upset is a sign of your system being polluted anyway — in the same way that a hangover is because of your system trying to cope with an influx of alcohol . |
| 9 | Not in the normal sense , I would suggest ; it is amoral , in the same way that a thunderstorm breaking is the inevitable outcome of battling elemental forces . |
| 10 | Although specialist training is not a requirement to practise as a counsellor , a professional may occasionally refer a patient to a specialist counsellor in the same way that a doctor may refer medical problems to a specialist colleague . |
| 11 | I enjoy the actual hunt in the same way that a fisherman enjoys casting his fly or bait near a fish that he has seen in the hope of catching it . |
| 12 | A rose is like a dog : you do not and can not get back more than you put in and , in the same way that a dog is more rewarding than most other animals , you get more back from a rose than other flowers . |
| 13 | The first type of theory proposes that these people make an inappropriate immune response ( allergic response ) to certain synthetic chemicals , in the same way that a hay-fever sufferer reacts adversely to pollen ( see Chapter Two ) . |