Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the dye molecules are dissolved in another solid , transparent host material , they do not all absorb light at quite the same frequency . |
| 2 | The boughs grow out from the trunk at nearly the same angle throughout the life of the tree and the sapling can be regarded as a geometrical model of the fully grown tree . |
| 3 | All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time . |
| 4 | The grenade left his grip at almost the same moment as another beam struck him full across the carapace , cracking it . |
| 5 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This was reinforced by a number of other changes which took place at roughly the same time . |
| 9 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 10 | Ven was leaving his room at just the same time , and , ‘ Hello , ’ she offered in a friendly , bright way , and was stabbed at by fingers of conscience all the way down in the lift . |
| 11 | That decided , I bait the swim every other day at approximately the same time in the evening , for this will teach the carp that there is food available from a certain time . |
| 12 | It was something of a coincidence that we wrote to each other at exactly the same time , albeit on different issues . |
| 13 | If you and the opponent land scoring techniques on each other at precisely the same time , then neither score will be given . |
| 14 | The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind . |
| 15 | Not just meeting the right person at the right time but also developing at the same pace so that you both have the same needs and expectations from life at roughly the same time . |
| 16 | Those of geometer moths are coloured and patterned to look like twigs and when they hold themselves with one end in the air at exactly the same angle to a stem as other twigs springing from it , they are virtually impossible to detect . |
| 17 | it just happens to be the same amount at exactly the same time but how nice of him to explain and how silly of us to be taken in by this string of coincidences . |
| 18 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Could anyone who knew your cousin 's habits rely on him taking the same walk at approximately the same time each night ? ’ |
| 19 | It says nothing about privatization or individual ‘ packages of care ’ , unlike the Community Care legislation which was passing through parliament at much the same time . |
| 20 | I doubt that an historian of welfare policy in the 1970s could access data and run it ( i.e. view it ) just as was done by the policy makers of the 1970s and their advisers , yet we can read the parliamentary reports of the nineteenth century at exactly the same speed and in exactly the same form as the policy makers who used and created them . |
| 21 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 22 | Contrary to what he said , that has enabled the industry to maintain production at much the same levels as those of 1990 . |
| 23 | He did n't have long to wait because Newley was a man of habit and arrived at the office at much the same time , day after day . |
| 24 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |