Example sentences of "in [pron] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Owen introduced the term ‘ homology ’ to denote cases in which the same structure had been adapted to a range of different purposes .
2 The poetic canzone was a strophic form , like the musical frottola in which the same music was commonly fitted to each quatrain or tercet , carrying the words very distinctly but without reflecting their specific sense .
3 The result is certainly a change of meaning : The cat sat on the moss ; but in this case it is impossible to find a different sentence in which the same substitution of forms produces a parallel change of meaning .
4 If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point .
5 He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire .
6 Young wheat especially , so pure and tender , woke in him the same emotion that he had when observing the face of a sleeping baby .
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