Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | We say " the same man " and mean numerically the same human person ; and we say " the same colour " and mean a quality that can be possessed or exemplified by different individuals . |
| 2 | It looked and tasted exactly the same as the previous day 's meal which I had sampled in the Superintendent 's office — a medium-hot vegetable curry containing a mixture of root and leafy vegetables . |
| 3 | The method adopted by Ministers for discussing policy questions is however essentially a domestic matter ; and a decision by a Cabinet Committee , unless referred to the Cabinet , engages the collective responsibility of all Ministers and has exactly the same authority as a decision by the Cabinet itself . |
| 4 | RCT , based in Arizona , is a non-profit making trust fund , and has much the same relationship with US academic institutions as BTG has with UK ones . |
| 5 | I would have trusted him to be here at this discussion and say much the same things other people here would be saying . |
| 6 | Oh yes , erm I went to a comprehensive co-educational school and found exactly the same thing . |
| 7 | Evelyn took a deep breath and drew exactly the same H as before . |
| 8 | Gedge 's approach to stagecraft was largely to ignore all the rules and act almost the same way as he did off stage . |
| 9 | I telephoned Frank and adopted exactly the same technique . |
| 10 | Apart from that they could 've sat on a wall and done exactly the same thing , she was in the street . |
| 11 | ‘ But we will go and look just the same , ’ he decided , and , taking her by the arm , he guided her to the front of the building and over to a high parapet . |
| 12 | there may be an expectation that we should , we should be absorbing increase in and getting roughly the same amount of money , but . |
| 13 | I came into the G M B and heard exactly the same kind of derogatory comments about the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 14 | The festival itself is moving into its second decade and keeps basically the same shape as in other years . |
| 15 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 16 | But as we said the other week th the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then is not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine . |
| 17 | The essential point is that a conception of justice fulfils its social role provided that citizens equally conscientious and sharing roughly the same beliefs find that , by affirming the framework of deliberation set up by it , they are normally led to a sufficient convergence of opinion . |
| 18 | It is revealing that , in a very similar way , to be can be present or omitted in an actual non-finite clause where it signals the passive of a verb phrase although its presence is generally preferred : ( 48 ) Cromwell ordered the Abbot of Reading ( to be ) tried and executed immediately The same insertion is sometimes superficially possible for predicate qualifiers ; but in reality this indicates a main verb which is semantically compatible with the relation of either construction ; an example would be like ( or want ) which makes it possible for us to set ( 49 ) beside ( 8 ) : ( 49 ) Alastair likes his beef tea to be strong However , with most preceding verb phrases , such a change to the predicate qualifier construction will produce a result which is ungrammatical and may even present difficulties of interpretation : ( 50 ) ( a ) the children have kept the fish-tank clean : how have the children kept the fish-tank ? ( b ) the children have kept the fish-tank to be clean |
| 19 | They flew almost the same number of sorties ( some 2,600 each ) and lost nearly the same number of aircraft ( 72 with 431 and 74 with 434 ) , suffering virtually identical casualties . |
| 20 | 2 Two or more words normally associating with each other and having much the same meaning as the nominal phrase , eg the very poor , a summit meeting . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I go and sit beside him on his boxes and feel much the same as he does . |
| 23 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
| 24 | That is , they think it 's knitted in the same yarns and feels just the same as single -bed Fair Isle . |
| 25 | He had what was apparently a heart attack and died there the same day . ’ |
| 26 | There are county players who average 35–40 and do exactly the same in Tests . |
| 27 | This is a market for the sale and repurchase of government bonds and serves much the same function as the lending of stock in the UK . |
| 28 | In a moment he reappeared and did exactly the same . |
| 29 | They should be aware that Mr beat Mr Brown to the punch and did exactly the same thing a few months ago . |
| 30 | until she got onto that crossbar and then she just flew straight back and did exactly the same thing all over again and I just thought sod it ! |