Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.
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1 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
2 | Here 's another new model from guy who has been riding for the same big-time company for literally eons . |
3 | One kind of answer suggests that bird vision has been improving over the same evolutionary timespan as insect camouflage . |
4 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
5 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
6 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
7 | He was a friend of Mark 's — an actor friend , who had been working on the same film as Mark when he had died . |
8 | The cooperative movement had been going through the same process , and every week was being confronted by the same forces which had compelled trade unionists to consolidate their forces . |
9 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
10 | They had been fighting on the same side in a war which is often erroneously characterised as an ethnic conflict ; fighting for what the Serb guerrillas call the ‘ Muslim side ’ . |
11 | She had been sleeping on the same step for three nights . |
12 | There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly . |
13 | Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you . |
14 | And over the years if you 've been working with the same partner |
15 | Whether you have just moved into a new home or have been living in the same place for years the main thing is that you are alone and you must make your home your pride , your joy , your sanctuary . |
16 | I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff . |
17 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
18 | Indeed if both the missile and its antidote have been improving at the same rate , we can expect that the latest , most advanced and sophisticated versions , and the earliest , most primitive and simplest versions will be exactly as successful as each other , against their contemporary counter-devices . |
19 | Why not get used to doing this stretch throughout the day — especially if you have been sitting in the same position for any length of time ? |