Example sentences of "by [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the operation of discretion by juvenile liaison officers is structured by much the same variables as with the section police : ‘ It all depends upon their attitude . ’ |
| 2 | The thought that the country might attempt suicide once again , so soon and by much the same means as last time , is almost too painful to contemplate . |
| 3 | Secondly , and by much the same token , we would condemn any suggestion that there is merit in regulation almost for its own sake : our justification for regulation can be only some real need to prevent what is unfair or damaging . |
| 4 | But the sexual division of labour — whether it is the male , the female , or both parents who look after the young — is controlled by much the same forces as control other sexual differences and is therefore appropriately treated in this chapter . |
| 5 | The question of why we want it is a psychological one , which we answer by much the same means . |
| 6 | The significant feature of privatization has been that the transformation has usually been carried out by broadly the same teams that had worked under nationalization . |
| 7 | Warrants on shares rise and fall by approximately the same amount in pence as the share price , but by a much larger percentage of their trading price . |
| 8 | U2 are not a pop group like The Undertones , although their music is driven and energised by exactly the same instinctive romantic desire — wish fulfilment . |
| 9 | History , in fact , works by exactly the same structure of supplementarity as Derrida charts in Of Grammatology . |
| 10 | Expenditure in the year had increased by exactly the same percentage as income , with almost half of the increase attributable to modernisation and the building of new lifeboat stations . |
| 11 | Every year they take exactly the same route as previous generations , for all are influenced by exactly the same topography . |
| 12 | For the priests , in fact , were doing exactly the same trick , and probably by exactly the same means , as the old East Anglian and Scottish horsemen who made out and actually believed that the horse 's immobility was the result of some secret and magical device they had resorted to . |
| 13 | By exactly the same reasoning , it would be predicted that a patient who reads pint with a short i ( a regularisation error ) would fail to understand this word , because the only route to understanding print is via pronunciation , and the patient 's pronunciation represents a non-word ( pint with a short i ) . |
| 14 | If you look carefully at this table , you will see that the combination of + and — values for each phoneme is different ; if two sounds were represented by exactly the same + 's and — 's , then by definition they could not be different phonemes . |
| 15 | The proportions of convictions varied by nearly the same degree . |
| 16 | It was opposed , on the French side , by virtually the same principle which , for all the emotional resurgence of Jacobin principles that may have suffused France at the end of the war , had faded by comparison with the raw and remorseless nationalism that was waiting to engulf the French from one end of Vietnam to the other . |
| 17 | There is a bottomless pit of money there and by then the same might apply in Japan or America . |
| 18 | When Eliot became a Christian in 1927 he declared that he found in reading Paul Elmer More , with whose Shelburne Essays he had shown familiarity in 1916 , the work of someone who had travelled by almost the same route , to virtually the same conclusions . |
| 19 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 20 | Committees are governed by almost the same procedures as the whole House . |
| 21 | I was thus occupied by precisely the same ambition which had driven Vasco Núñez four and a half centuries before . |