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

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1 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 .
2 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 ) .
3 Clearly , the railways will run in precisely the same way whether the railwaymen use this facility or not , so there is no extra charge to the Railways Board itself , therefore there would be no taxable benefits .
4 This seemed a suitable area on which to work , and we proceeded in precisely the same way as before , with Sylvia imagining the situation under hypnosis and then going off to do her homework for however long was necessary .
5 Denying that people learned in precisely the same way as pigeons , Cartier insisted that the reason why a programme taught better than typical traditional methods was usually because of the latter 's inadequately prepared design :
6 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 .
7 Namely , that the Spirit acts for , and in , and against men in precisely the same way as Jesus had done when on earth .
8 Paul sees it in precisely the same way as John .
9 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 ) .
10 The fair price of the stock index futures contract can be calculated in precisely the same way as with the other contracts .
11 Whichever bone it was , it was a crotch in shape ; that is , a forked bone like a wish-bone , and having precisely the same shape as the frog — the horny elastic pad — in a horse 's hoof .
12 Paley compares the eye with a designed instrument such as a telescope , and concludes that " there is precisely the same proof that the eye was made for vision , as there is that the telescope was made for assisting it " .
13 I mean it does n't pick up precisely the same colour but that in there
14 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 .
15 Telephone calls to the office get precisely the same response as Sir Geoffrey got — a polite girl saying that Mr. Stavanger is away .
16 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 .
17 The geneticist should recognize genes ‘ for ’ house shape in precisely the same sense as there are genes for , say , leg shape .
18 This argument misses the point that Freud 's notion of instinct is a link concept between the bio-physical and the experiential — geese do not experience in precisely the same sense as human beings do .
19 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 .
20 The president of the Wolverhampton chamber of commerce delivered precisely the same speech as the one of which he sent me a copy beforehand and I have it here .
21 We were in precisely the same place that we had been in three dawns previously !
22 If we turn to St. John , it is precisely the same picture that meets us , although painted in very different colours .
23 Is it precisely the same meaning that the historian meant to convey ?
24 It is precisely the same quality that makes them resist brutality in prisons but we do not applaud that .
25 At precisely the same time as circumcision and the blood of circumcision was receiving this new casting and additional dimension , legislation about female blood — i.e. the blood of menstruation and childbirth — appeared for the first time on the scene .
26 I am not even going to attempt to tell you why I was so attired , or guess at why fate should have made Donald and his equally well-equipped companions walk across that particular piece of wilderness at precisely the same time as me .
27 Curiously , at precisely the same time as the Rosenstein archive slipped through the letter box at Collectair a really superb flying model of an Etrich Taube arrived fresh from being fully restored and re-rigged ( F ) .
28 The two successive episodes of Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet collapse began at precisely the same time as the climate shifts that are recorded in the Greenland ice core ( within the cited uncertainty ) .
29 A further indication of renewed population pressure is that complaints about land enclosure became more conspicuous in the second decade of the sixteenth century , at precisely the same time as real wages began to fall .
30 Now close your eyes and try to visualize that object in your mind , seeing it in precisely the same detail as before .
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