Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [v-ing] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same object may reflect different wavelengths at different times yet be seen as having the same colour . |
| 2 | Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children . |
| 3 | Ironically , two great predecessors , Mallory and Irvine , died whilst attempting the same route in 1924 . |
| 4 | Levi goes on to insist that the real witnesses are those who died in the camps , and that those prisoners who did not were mostly compromised people or privileged people : Solzhenitsyn is cited as making the same point about the pridurki — the ‘ prominents ’ of the Gulag system . |
| 5 | If the tube is defined as having the same length as the unperturbed chain , nl o , where l o is the bond length under θ conditions ( corrected for short range interactions ) , then the time required for the chain to reptate out of the tube is proportional to the square of the distance travelled , i.e. |
| 6 | As your fitness improves you will find that your heart rate decreases while performing the same level of exercise . |
| 7 | The draftsman must , therefore , express himself consistently throughout the lease , for a word used in one part of the lease will probably be construed as having the same meaning if used in another part of the same document . |
| 8 | It is a bit like arguing that if the hypothesis that smoking causes lung cancer is to be believed , everybody who smokes must get cancer ; what is more nothing else ( such as asbestos ) can be admitted as having the same effect . |
| 9 | In the matter of contract , drunkenness is regarded as having the same effect as insanity . |
| 10 | So , for instance , a variation in ministerial statements on the legislative intention behind a provision in a Government Bill might be sufficient to characterize the statements as unclear , but a similar variation in the statements in the Commons and the Lords by the promoters of a private Members Bill might not be treated as having the same significance . |
| 11 | The knowledge world is seen as being equivalent to a population , and the spread of an idea through that population is described as following the same pattern as the spread of an infectious disease through that population . |