Example sentences of "anything [prep] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 4 June , the day the Dunkirk evacuation ended , he wrote to the Chiefs of Staff : ‘ if it is so easy for the Germans to invade us … why should it be … impossible for us to do anything of the same kind to him ? ’ |
| 2 | If you ca n't buy these little black olives in Soho , at least avoid the great brownish ones sold in most delicatessen stores ; they really have n't anything of the same character . |
| 3 | THE REST The return to low-budget film-making by the director of Halloween , John Carpenter , fails to generate anything like the same tension . |
| 4 | Although relatively fresh and interesting , neither has anything like the same energy as his screenplay for Mackendrick . |
| 5 | Pennies and Singing Detective raised interest and expectation , but not on anything like the same scale . |
| 6 | George V had found Lloyd George 's scattering of honours ‘ disagreeable and distasteful ’ , according to his private secretary , Lord Stamfordham , and while no subsequent prime minister has abused the system to anything like the same degree , they can not kick the habit . |
| 7 | But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning . |
| 8 | It 's puzzling that the British public seems to share this feeling of worship for Russian dancers , yet does n't extend anything like the same respect to its own . |
| 9 | Radio and television programmes of the high inquiring calibre of ‘ Today ’ , ‘ The World at One ’ or ‘ Newsnight ’ do not exist in France to anything like the same degree . |
| 10 | His competitor , Barry O'Donovan of Carbrook Chemicals , does not export on anything like the same scale as himself , he says . |
| 11 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 12 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's got plenty of pace — but I 'll bet you £1,000 he would not get anything like the same results as Waqar and Wasim . |
| 14 | Not even the same matches with the same results would have engendered anything like the same degree of atmosphere or emotion had it been staged at a neutral venue , which is what the situation would be in most years if the one or two weeks idea was adopted . |
| 15 | In other words , the potentialities of the medium were not explored to anything like the same extent' ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 16 | Most people were still using wooden ploughs er which , not only di is it much more difficult to cut the sod with a er wooden plough , but it also cuts only in to about half the depth of an iron plough so you ca n't sort of turn the soil over to anything like the same extent . |
| 17 | Quality control is not ‘ externalized ’ , nor is maintenance , to anything like the same degree as in more traditional modernist organizations . |
| 18 | Although not to anything like the same extent as in an earlier period in the United States , quietly and firmly the British black family was becoming the focus of official anxieties . |
| 19 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
| 20 | E.D. Simon , Chairman of Manchester Housing Committee ( 1919–23 ) and Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Health ( 1931 ) was confident of being able to rebuild Britain within 20 years : ‘ If we can tackle the problems of peace with anything like the same sense of purpose , the same devotion , and the same efficiency as we have shown during the war , the Rebuilding of Britain will be child 's play ’ ( Simon , 1945 , p. 228 ) . |
| 21 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 22 | These data are insufficient to establish the variation of seismic wave speeds with depth in the Moon to anything like the same extent with which this has been possible in the Earth . |
| 23 | These facts are indeed significant , but they are susceptible of a rather different Interpretation when it is accepted that importance and success amongst the ulema in the earlier period did not depend upon one 's position in the hierarchy or concomitant matters like salary or membership of the divan — to anything like the same degree that they did in later times . |
| 24 | Members in Northern Ireland are not taking advantage of the savings available on Homecover to anything like the same extent as members in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 25 | Neither did the very many railwaymen who were concerned with passengers , nor , since the canal companies did not usually operate as carriers , did they employ anything like the same number of men in handling freight . |
| 26 | Do reductions of poems have anything like the same psychological reality ? |
| 27 | Women rowers ca n't take part on anything like the same scale as the men yet , but the feeling was they 're here to stay : |
| 28 | Speakers of languages like Japanese , Hungarian and Spanish , which do not have weak syllables to anything like the same extent as English does , may well find such exercises of some value ( as long as they are not overdone to the point where learners feel they have to speak English as though they were reciting verse ) . |
| 29 | If it requires to seize anything with the same organ , its tongue will then divide and become forked . |
| 30 | Napoleon , in the weeks before his abdication , had never fought more brilliantly , and no one , least of all Wellington , expected anything but the same cleverness now . |