Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Two-syllable simple adjectives are stressed according to the same rule , giving :
2 Skinner ( 1948 ) states that " verbal behaviour is emitted behaviour which is reinforced by a listener and develops according to the same principles as other operant behaviour .
3 At the same time , the video head drum , which rotates 1500 times a minute , stops dead and starts spinning at the same speed in the opposite direction .
4 Witnesses were examined according to the same procedure as at police court trials .
5 He wanted his prose to be objective , scientific , devoid of personal presence , devoid of opinions ; so he decided that poetry ought to be written according to the same principles .
6 ‘ We need to evaluate screening with the same rigour we use to examine a new drug ’
7 When a big shoal is feeding dozens of bream can be seen rolling at the same time , all facing the same way .
8 Then an appendix , a disc list , gives every known issue and reissue according to the same numbering , a sensible practice .
9 In this way , all her eggs begin developing at the same time .
10 This may or may not entail living in the same house .
11 Developing and mounting were performed according to the same protocol as for the PAP procedure .
12 3 When it is time for interrogation , vary your approach — do n't always begin questioning from the same point in the classroom ; do n't always start with the same students but criss-cross about the classroom in a pattern that can not be identified by the students .
13 It 's also very rare that you finish standing on the same position from which you made the cast .
14 Speaker B keeps returning to the same point , his first statement , dealing with it in a variety of ways , and we get three different and slightly conflicting evaluations of his action in discussing sex openly with his pupils ( it 's daring , it 's unsystematic , it 's something anyway ) .
15 It seemed louder , more raucous than usual , and she sighed at the prospect of another evening spent listening to the same arguments and bitter reproaches .
16 Now it 's got the three and we 're batting for each other , you know playing on the same side .
17 Later four men , believed to be from the Ballymena area , were arrested returning from the same event .
18 The information made visible by the use of such database facilities is restricted according to the same security rules imposed by LIFESPAN .
19 Reappraisal of Planning Permission — all existing permissions should be reassessed according to the same criteria as above , and authorities would have the power to rescind or modify them .
20 ‘ I told you to keep going in the same direction .
21 If there is just one curve at the top of the incline and the leading and trailing wheels thus continue travelling on the same rail tracks , as the tank comes up over the curve it will tilt forward .
22 ( However , P-E sees a special need for its application in these days of frequently changing corporate cultures and structures : for example , a successful predator might well want to stir up the management of a recent acquisition , and encourage its executives to start thinking along the same lines as their new bosses ) .
23 Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route .
24 In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence .
25 However , if all members of a group went swimming at the same time and left valuables unattended , that would be an unnecessary risk where no real precautions had been taken and would be a breach of the duty of care .
26 cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time .
27 Young Victor , a Romantic from birth , was excited when the family was given free seats for the theatre for every night of its stay , less excited when he found out that the programme never changed , so that it meant sitting through the same melodrama every night for a month .
28 As I made my way home and tried to comprehend the logic of taking another batsman on board , I kept arriving at the same conclusion — that I 'd be better off out of it .
29 Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open .
30 The only problem was , they were supposed to be on piece work , and it meant working at the same pace .
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