Example sentences of "same [noun sg] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we dissolve a tablet in a bath of water will a teaspoonful dose have the same effect as taking the tablet itself ? |
| 2 | Treatment of the effect or symptoms of the disorder without attention to the cause itself can have the same effect as ignoring the oil warning light on a car ; eventual major breakdown . |
| 3 | Double clicking has the same effect as pressing the return or enter key . |
| 4 | Sometimes the switch contacts happen to bounce an even number of times , say 2 or 4 , and this achieves the same result as having no bounce at all ! |
| 5 | It has also been held that where the right which the applicant seeks to protect by action in a court was created by the same statute as provided the ( alternative ) remedy for its protection , the statutory remedy is the only one available . |
| 6 | Barbara Adams , a US-born resident of Katmandu , said : " I am waiting for the day when owning a Tibetan carpet incurs the same disapproval as wearing a leopard skin coat . " |
| 7 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |
| 8 | The Danish government was of the same opinion as regards the registration of ships in general . |
| 9 | If he translates word-for-word , he will achieve greater fidelity in one respect ( , for instance , evokes the same picture as put the cat among the pigeons ) , but to the detriment of fidelity in another respect ( is a live metaphor , while is not ) ; if , however , he puts a greater value on the latter type of fidelity , then he must sacrifice the former . |
| 10 | What I would like to suggest here is that the Buid view aggressive conduct as a sort of moral infirmity requiring explanation in much the same manner as does a physical infirmity . |
| 11 | Each has the same environment as do the atoms or molecules in a crystal ( that is what I meant by saying that this sort of structure represents simple ordering ) , and each is attached to its neighbours in exactly the same way . |
| 12 | Oxford 's past reveals that , in 1894 , C B Fry , a future England cricketer and then the world long jump record-holder , was prevented by injury from gaining a rugby Blue in the same season as winning the third of his four soccer Blues . |
| 13 | Chamberlain refers to this in the same breath as mentioning an argument between the Marquess Buckingham and Hamilton over ‘ the selling of honours and abasing ancient nobility , by new advancements ’ . |
| 14 | It is not unlikely that he was the same man as Barates the Palmyrene whose wife Regina was buried at South Shields ; a Catuvellaunian by birth , she was at first his slave before he freed and married her . |
| 15 | What motivates him is the same thing as motivates the riders . |
| 16 | Not necessarily by supporting the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament or some other " peace " organization , since concern is not the same thing as supporting a particular policy for disarmament . |
| 17 | But introducing an abstract noun is not the same thing as providing an explanation . |
| 18 | Indicating that all supervisory staff have a training responsibility is not the same thing as having a ‘ suitably augmented team ’ . |
| 19 | Well , really , how to make a cup of tea is like the same thing as making a cup of coffee first you have to take the kettle to the tap , turn the tap on and fill up the kettle , then take the kettle back to the ma , erm , where you got it from and plug it into the wa wall . |
| 20 | ‘ They have kept a low profile and they have basically the same squad as won an All Ireland . |
| 21 | In the same way as taking the surname of the male in marriage tends to make tracing the female branches of the family more difficult , the use of the term man tends to make women 's history disappear . |
| 22 | This increases the money supply in the same way as does a balance of payments surplus . |
| 23 | Private benefits from more children in the same way as adding an extra livestock unit to the communal pasture are positive , but the public benefits may be negative . |
| 24 | In some ways it serves the same purpose as having a service to recognize the end of mourning . |
| 25 | Choosing a letter would have to be done on the same principle as choosing a biscuit . |
| 26 | For instance , the foreign in foreign policy is the same foreign as in foreign goods ( where the adjective is ascriptive ) ; likewise the associative abdominal of abdominal support expresses just the same idea as does the ascriptive adjective in : ( 16 ) this abdominal region is naturally more sensitive than the upper arm Similarly , in ( 9 ) we saw an alteration in the meaning of the noun qualified , but there was no reason to suspect the word Italian in itself of contributing two different values in the cases where it is used adjectivally . |
| 27 | With their Chargecards you can dial out from almost any phone at the same cost as using a phone box , the cost of the calls being added to your normal bill . |
| 28 | As far as noise reduction is concerned , sealed double glazing units have about the same value as having the window reglazed with glass twice as thick as the original glass . |
| 29 | It 's the same chap as put the racking in the room . |
| 30 | You can be truly successful this year , especially if you have learned to diversify at the same time as pursuing the well-beaten track to your objectives . |