Example sentences of "on [adv] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gramley ( p. 20 ) seems to be on much the same track when he notes , concerning I saw the library to have burned down : What the speaker saw was not an occurrence , but physical evidence for a condition , a state ; for example , the speaker saw the site , the ruins . |
| 2 | But an army marches on its boots and relies on much the same footwear as the soldiers of the past . |
| 3 | The site in the Coln Valley could be expected to have been on much the same pattern , though a smaller scale . |
| 4 | Lord Southwood of Odhams Press acquired his 51 per cent shareholding in the Daily Herald between the wars on much the same basis . |
| 5 | Second , and by the same token , the way was opened to setting Christianity on exactly the same footing as any other religion . |
| 6 | On exactly the same night as Nancy had met Rose Maylie , two people from Oliver 's home town were making their way towards London . |
| 7 | They were on exactly the same wavelength as Massim d'Azeglio who said , after Italy had been politically unified : ‘ We have made Italy , now we have to make Italians ’ , that is out of the inhabitants of the peninsula who had all sorts of identities , but not one based on a language they did not speak , and a state that had come into existence over their heads . |
| 8 | In this instance the directors are presumably the same as the shareholders , and the intention was , undoubtedly , to effect the motor vehicles ' transfer and payment of the dividend on exactly the same date to avoid a loan account debit and a s 419 assessment . |
| 9 | ‘ The Danes have just voted on exactly the same treaty . ’ |
| 10 | The new vocational qualifications in Scotland will be based on exactly the same lead body standards as the English NVQs . |
| 11 | Just as Britain tried to ‘ deal with ’ water pollution with longer pipes and the principle of dilute and disperse , its reliance on exactly the same policy has drawn it into conflicts over air pollution . |
| 12 | The object of the legal aid scheme is to ensure that the relationship between solicitor and assisted client is on exactly the same basis as that between solicitor and private client . |
| 13 | The new Northern Ireland should then be firmly secured within the political set-up of the United Kingdom by being treated thereafter on exactly the same basis as , say , Yorkshire or Lancashire . |
| 14 | There his reception of the ‘ one Spirit ’ convinces Peter , the orthodox Jew , that Cornelius , the Gentile soldier , has been accepted by God into his family on just the same basis as the original disciples . |
| 15 | Try to plot the result on approximately the same scale as figure 9.10 so that you can compare the result with the economy in general . |
| 16 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 17 | On 3rd July 1892 , a cloud burst on a hill to the west of Langtoft , on almost the same spot where the waterspout of four years earlier had fallen , gouging out two great fissures in the chalk , and rushing along the valley of Briggate towards the village . |
| 18 | Two show combats : Athena and a Giant from the west , Herakles and an Amazon from the east , on almost the same design . |
| 19 | On precisely the same day each year the star cluster Pleiades also first became visible in the dawn sky . |
| 20 | Shearer 's injury might not be on quite the same scale , but it will keep him out of qualifiers in Turkey next month , the Netherlands at home in April and the end-of-season double away to Poland on 29 May and Norway four days later . |
| 21 | but changes in the ownership and control of companies also took place between these dates , sometimes on virtually the same scale and certainly with the same consequences for programme contents . |
| 22 | Many composers have used melodic shapes based on virtually the same scale and chord patterns , or on similar rhythms , yet produced themes unmistakably their own . |
| 23 | The American dramatist David Mamet has given a far more penetrating and disturbing account of salesmen on the make in Glengarry Glen Ross , and I can remember at least two other British plays on virtually the same theme . |