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

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1 These I do not repeat here , but my version of Boulestin 's sweet tomato conserve , which I had intended to include in the same book and which is indeed indexed as appearing in it , somehow got away .
2 There half an inch of rain has fallen in the same period .
3 But it is far from certain that all the fish in every corporate shoal want to swim in the same direction .
4 This worked as a strategy at least for as long as the persons involved lived in the same household and shared their resources .
5 Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population .
6 As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes .
7 The subframes are designed to deform in the same manner as the robust bodyshell and thereby contribute to this energy absorption .
8 However , the one thing that instantly distinguished PageMaker from the rest was the fact that it had been designed to work in the same way as a traditional paste-up table .
9 She has written in the same magazine ( June 1987 ) on the Book of Exodus , warning that a reading of the Bible as literature , rather than as sacred text , ‘ can not lift heavenward ’ .
10 4.5 In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC 174 ( per Lord Scarman giving the main speech with which the rest of their Lordships agreed ) the House of Lords re-affirmed what Lord Blackburn had said over 100 years ago : " the principle of the law is that compensation should as nearly as possible put the party who has suffered in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong " ( Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co ( 1880 ) 5 App Cas 25 , 39 ) .
11 In linking the resourcing of the school library to specific curriculum developments , and in making grants only to those schools whose plans comply with specified criteria , the local authority has acted in the same way as such central government agencies as the Department of Education and Science ( DES ) and the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) .
12 Her father has to sleep in the same room since he has to attend to her during the night when she may need a bed pan up to four times .
13 It is difficult to quantify buying patterns , but I can say that American buying has dipped in the same way that European and non-European buying has dipped .
14 How terrible to adore like this so that you want to lie in the same grave and share nothing with the world but live above it like Zeus and Hera .
15 Its site has not altered and the chancel arch ( the division between the parishioners ' area [ the nave ] and the rector 's area [ the chancel ] ) has remained in the same position for 1000 years or more , notwithstanding additions , alterations , and demolitions .
16 A portrait of a child by Luis Paret y Alcazar ( 1746–1799 ) which has remained in the same family since it was painted is expected to sell for more than Pta40 million ( £220,000 ; $429,000 ) .
17 For 18 years he has lived in the same house in London 's Gospel Oak , though he could easily afford the neighbouring and more upmarket Hampstead .
18 After the hearing Mrs Todd , who has lived in the same house for 27 years , said she had no plans to move .
19 Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life .
20 Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life .
21 This can be reduced by diversifying , in particular to achieve a mix of assets whose values would not all be expected to move in the same direction at once .
22 A woman retiring at 60 will get a lower pension from a PP than a man would at 65 , even if she has paid in the same amount over the same number of years .
23 Now he is 44 and something of a veteran in a championship where only his former Ibrox colleague , Tommy McLean , has lasted in the same job for longer .
24 Perhaps because horses are relatively large , and therefore hard to ignore , people tend to behave in the same way in the presence of a horse .
25 It would be easier to convince senior managers that Unix is a viable platform if all systems were seen to work in the same way , regardless of what was underneath .
26 He too had been influenced by Lyell , and as early as 1855 had published a paper commenting on the fact that new species always seemed to appear in the same neighbourhood as a closely related existing species .
27 Or those voracious fish-eaters , otters , have been seen to play in the same pool as the salmon , fish who would normally flee from the presence of such a competent and fearsome predator .
28 In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place .
29 But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star .
30 A high turnover of newcomers does not have a serious effect on the community if a substantial group of native families remain rooted in the same spot , but if over the years it is the oldest families that are emigrating then the parish structure will be unstable .
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