Example sentences of "just the same [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the same all the workmen are there ca n't cross the road |
| 2 | ‘ No reason , ’ she said , ‘ just the same polite curiosity that made you ask all those questions about Simone and André . |
| 3 | He 'd been back again the following weekend , and he had had just the same unsettling effect on her . |
| 4 | The means may be likened to a seed , the end to a tree ; and there is just the same inviolable connexion between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree … |
| 5 | Fourth , structure ( 47 ) for the clausal adjective follows just the same general intensional pattern as will be needed for sentences which contain not an adjective but a ( non-finite ) verb phrase : ( 61 ) Leonard proved this theorem to rival the Nomination theorem in its scope Atkins will guarantee her picture to have fetched $100,000 at its last sale 4.7 It seems permissible to agree , in this case , that we do have good grounds for accepting that the adjectives are understood as part of a structure felt to be a clause , of which the preceding noun phrase would be the subject . |
| 6 | No blue skies , just the same depressing grey she had grown used to , and as the events of yesterday flooded relentlessly into her mind her eyes filled with helpless tears . |
| 7 | For the causal relations of events would be just the same irrespective of whether or not the causal chain temporarily took on a mental aspect ( as in property dualism ) or ( as in substance dualism ) ‘ went mental ’ for a while . |
| 8 | Yet the Discovery has a classy , Conran-designed interior , excellent seats and ride-comfort and a wonderful , rumbling V8 engine that emits just the same blue-blooded burble as a Range Rover . |
| 9 | Because he was n't just the same hard , tough personality that he always had been : he was now far more dangerous — certainly if her present fragile emotions were anything to go by . |
| 10 | Yet on closer inspection it will be found that they both contain just the same structural components . |
| 11 | If a boat heeled right over it 's not good for the boat and it slows you down , it is far better to reef , the technique is just the same afloat as it was ashore . |
| 12 | I say sex , not love-making , for that is what it has become , just the same old act . |
| 13 | ‘ But it was important for us to play together as much as possible , whether it was to a new crowd or just the same old people . |
| 14 | But at this point I ca n't decide if the evening 's cabaret will consist of , ‘ Deep down , I 'm just the same old Lil you knew before , so how about it ? ’ or ‘ I 'm a star now , baby , and I can make or break you , so let's do it my way . ’ |
| 15 | Unwontedly , Lewis was philosophising as he and Morse sat in the canteen at St Aldate 's : ‘ Amazing , really : you get all these statements and alibis and secret little meetings , and then really , in the end , it 's just — well , it 's just the same old story , is n't it ? |
| 16 | Human awareness of this truth , he may have concluded , was passed on with just the same loose and haunting persistence as the rhythms and phrases of English poetry , surviving from Anglo-Saxon times to Middle English and ‘ The Man in the Moon ’ , and on again to Shakespeare and Milton and Yeats and nursery-rhyme , without intention as without a break . |