Example sentences of "the [adv] same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Targeting particular sectors sounds fine , but other strong competitors may already be targeting the very same areas . |
| 2 | The highway stretched pale and deserted in the evening sun , yet this was the very same road on which Sharpe had seen a French corps marching that morning . |
| 3 | Likewise , the distinctive black and yellow ichneumon wasp Amblyteles armatorius will crawl in beside the very same moth caterpillars that it may later parasitise with its eggs . |
| 4 | An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine . |
| 5 | That is the board 's view of Government policy — the very same Government policy that the House has been told has been endorsed by all those in the construction industry . |
| 6 | He knew darn well she , or rather Cara , was a journalist , Fabia thought crossly , all her vibes insisting that this man was the very same man she had come to interview . |
| 7 | What excited many of those who were following leys was the realization that the legends were about the very same sites which Watkins had found to be ley markers . |
| 8 | Robyn remembered being by the fountain , all those weeks ago ; he had used the very same expression then . |
| 9 | A few minutes later the very same Mrs Fm turns up . |
| 10 | But in the very same scene Ulysses is left alone with Nestor , and describes how he really intends to entice Achilles from his tent . |
| 11 | We were going too fast to see any details of the moored vessels so I just snapped a random photograph and , at the very same instant , the Maggot swore and banked and rammed the throttles hard forward . |
| 12 | Yet in the very same instant the warm flutter died away to be replaced by the weight of cold reality . |
| 13 | The sub-contract was for the sale , not merely of similar goods , but of the very same goods as were to lie supplied under the first contract . |
| 14 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 15 | He had seen them take cover from the beginnings of the storm in the very same darkness in which the two men were waiting . |
| 16 | These phrases denied me my right to participate in the very same way that the socialist movement refused to recognize my rights to have access to information that would dispel my ignorance on such subjects . |
| 17 | And you , my sagacious readers , will have perceived and understood that Otto was the very same hound into which the young brother of the lady of the coffin had been transformed . |
| 18 | The very same women who had been all for their daughters travelling abroad seemed suddenly to get bored with the idea . |
| 19 | ‘ The very same Jim , ’ said Silver . |
| 20 | Thus while the EC Commission was working on its Draft Directive on products Liability the Council of Europe was preparing a Convention on the very same subject . |
| 21 | Eyes , who saw everything around him as exciting and interesting , was the imaginative one ; No-Eyes , bored and truculent , saw the very same things but saw them as boring and limited . |
| 22 | If the things produced in us through perception are ideas , that is , the very same things that are the meanings of words , then words have meaning for us by virtue of our present-life perceptual experiences . |
| 23 | God might have annexed colour sensations to the kind of light reaching our eyes in ; quite different way from that which he has done , so that the very same things ( in their real nature ) which are red to us might have been blue , and vice versa , or we might have experienced , quite different range of colours in the same physical situations . |
| 24 | Moreover , the very same Tetley 's who so lovingly restored The Fox are now building , in the heart of a residential suburb not two miles away , an open-plan eating barn that contravenes all the accepted standards of enlightened and community-sensitive pub design . |
| 25 | And , qui and most certainly demonstrated the need to set up the very same committee as we have set up . |
| 26 | On the contrary , it will become clear that scientific investigations are thoroughly imbued with the very same assumptions we find in folklinguistic speculation . |
| 27 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 28 | In 1746 , one of Cumberland 's officers on his way back from victory at Culloden had invaded the very same hut and raped a girl ( his troopers held her down ) then strangled the grandmother to command her silence . |
| 29 | On the very same day as its official launch , three environmental groups — Friends of the Earth , Greenpeace and Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment — presented their own solution to the waste dilemma . |
| 30 | After all , if the University was n't going to keep her on ( Swallow 's request had come , rather tactlessly , later in the very same day on which he had communicated this gloomy prognosis ) why should she put herself out to oblige the University ? |