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

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1 Lavier continues to reflect on paradoxes , with such examples as the superimposition of a safe on a refrigerator , both objects having been covered with paint of precisely the same colour as the original .
2 If the claims were made simply on the basis of introspection without systematic observation in the community , they would be of precisely the same order ( except that they would be unaccountable and probably much less reliable ) .
3 That no final accommodation between these diverse conceptions of the boundaries of English was achieved is clear from the re-emergence of precisely the same argument , but now within a much wider public domain , in 1981 .
4 Like the squirrel , he should marry only someone of precisely the same blood lines as himself .
5 Whether this is a plain green , or yellow , or an overall mottled grey and brown , the result is a body-covering of precisely the same hue and tone .
6 And I fear therefore that we 're in precisely the same position as we were when the presbytery of Hamilton brought their overture to us .
7 But my location 321762 is in precisely the same position in my cells as your location 321762 is in your cells .
8 An equitable mortgagee seeking possession is in precisely the same position as a legal mortgagee ( Barclays Bank Ltd v Bird [ 1954 ] Ch 274 at p 280 ) , but the remedy of an equitable chargee is only by way of sale ( see The Supreme Court Practice Vol 1 at 50/1 — 9/23 ) .
9 Agnes knew that gesture : her daughter Brigitte shook her head and lifted her brows in precisely the same way .
10 Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies .
11 In French cookery clarified beef suet , pigs ' lard and goose fat are used in precisely the same way to seal pâtés and home-preserved pork and goose .
12 It is unusual outside some strictly regulated professional courses to find two courses covering the same content ; it would be difficult to find two that have exactly the same pattern of assessment ; and impossible to find two that are taught in precisely the same way .
13 The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above .
14 Namely , that the Spirit acts for , and in , and against men in precisely the same way as Jesus had done when on earth .
15 Hölderlin 's vision of Greece is , like Winckelmann 's , idyllic , but not in precisely the same way .
16 The stream of expected earnings is discounted in precisely the same way as the stream of expected dividends using the same discount rate ( because the discount rate applies to the risk class of the activities of the entire firm ) .
17 The fair price of the stock index futures contract can be calculated in precisely the same way as with the other contracts .
18 In precisely the same way , when we use the word property it will mean an element of this domain used by speakers in constructing their acts of linguistic communication , and not a property as perceived or conceived extralinguistically in a real or imaginary world , unless we specifically state that the latter is intended .
19 The geneticist should recognize genes ‘ for ’ house shape in precisely the same sense as there are genes for , say , leg shape .
20 Near synonyms are most common , with true synonyms ( which mean exactly the same thing and which are used in precisely the same context ) being more unusual .
21 We were in precisely the same place that we had been in three dawns previously !
22 Suspects and witnesses have special characteristics that will not be found in precisely the same mix in other randomly chosen members of the population and can not , therefore , be precisely re-enacted with others .
23 Boulestin 's idea was that while you were at it you made — as in a great many of his recipes — enough of this mixture ( he treats smoked cod 's roe and anchovy fillets in precisely the same manner ) for two meals : you serve it as a first course , with toast , for two very differently composed lunches .
24 Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser .
25 ‘ There is no reason why they should not be , ’ she said , pointing to how they had access to precisely the same teaching methods .
26 An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress .
27 On precisely the same day each year the star cluster Pleiades also first became visible in the dawn sky .
28 Standing in shallow water amongst the tall reeds on the banks of the river , Mark counted eight herons , all motionless , their necks inclined upwards at precisely the same angle , as if in silent prayer .
29 The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion .
30 At precisely the same moment at which central government concerns to reduce spending on the welfare state became dominant , it became more difficult to ensure that local authorities would do what was required .
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