Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th .
2 As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens .
3 ‘ And I want it to go on the same way till I 'm free to offer you more . ’
4 Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) .
5 This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing .
6 It amounted to the same thing for him .
7 If in doubt , one compares another specimen with the type in order to see if it belongs to the same species .
8 True , it belongs to the same group of viruses , but within that group it is only distantly related .
9 It is related to the hedgehog , or rather it belongs to the same family of insectivores .
10 It lies in the same field as the rather reddish Nu² ; ( 3.9 ) , forming a triangle with Nu² ; and Sirius .
11 It moved in the same half — crouched , shambling run as it had the night before , quietly , stealthily , purposefully .
12 It was short , like Mr Hyde , and it moved in the same light , quick , active way .
13 These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being .
14 This effect did not depend on oesophageal acidification as it occurred to the same extent with both pH + and pH - common cavity episodes .
15 same hat , so it looks like the same woman so he says , oh my God !
16 It looks like the same sort of swarf that 's lying under Orrie 's bench .
17 But — with exceptions of course — it has at the same time been unable or unwilling to devote enough time and effort to understanding and pursing financial and accounting matters , perhaps because these often lack the immediate and general glamour of other aspects of policies .
18 It referred to the same matters as the Financial Secretary had stated to the Committee and concluded :
19 We also tested an unrelated human osteosarcoma-derived cell line ( 13.1 ; M.P.K. and G. Attardi , unpublished observations , and ref. 18 ) , and it behaved in the same way : the cells could be induced to undergo apoptosis by either serum deprivation or staurosporine treatment , and they were protected by transfection with bcl-2 ( not shown ) .
20 The difference is still more striking when it occurs in the same work , e.g. Arnold von Bruck 's ‘ O du armer Judas ’ ( published by Hans Ott of Nuremberg in his collection of 121 newe Lieder , 1534 ) which ends with a Kyrie :
21 ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose .
22 You see , it came from the same thing .
23 His argument is that the density wave is of a different kind , the so called long wave mode , which propagates from the centre of the Galaxy outward , such a wave pattern rotates much more rapidly than the short wave mode and it just happens that , if this picture is correct , our Solar System is almost exactly at the place in our Galaxy where it orbits at the same speed as the wave ( Astrophysics and Space Science , vol 89 , p 61 ) .
24 ‘ Do n't you think it 's surprising that she could n't recall delivering twins for Lilian , when it happened at the same time as Donna , almost ?
25 It happened with the same naturalness that had first drawn them together , and in taking her he felt the greatest fulfilment of his life .
26 It commented in the same year that , ‘ while recognizing the considerable contribution that Mr Hornby has made in building up the Council to its present position of eminence within the colleges , it was now time for the CNAA 's influence to be more widely felt ’ .
27 Does it look about the same size as my other ?
28 The force knows exactly how much harder it has to pull on the big one to keep it going in the same circle .
29 ‘ No , I 'm a scientist , but it amounts to the same thing . ’
30 It amounts to the same thing , surely ! ’
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