Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [v-ing] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared to the experience of hearing music ‘ live ’ even under unfavourable circumstances there is often very little sense that the musicians are pulling in the same direction , or that the music ebbs and flows in a natural , organic or above all believable way . |
| 2 | Doubts about Communist motives in Spain would have been submerged under the general enthusiasm for the Republic , had not doubts about Soviet Communism been growing at the same time . |
| 3 | Revisiting the site at intervals ( of at least a week ) note whether the marked animals are feeding on the same prey or not . |
| 4 | Not all subjects are changing at the same pace although the national curriculum will in time no doubt reach some kind of consistency . |
| 5 | It is quite possible that the economy may converge to a steady state not characterized by equilibrium , e.g. , where capital and the labour force are growing at the same rate , but there is a constant level of unemployment . |
| 6 | I mean , surely the English hens were laying at the same rate as they did in peacetime ? |
| 7 | This effect is best corrected by observing the exhaust smoke and trimming the model so that the tail boom is pointing in the same direction that the smoke is being blown . |
| 8 | Even though Blanche 's first question was innocent enough , Dexter knew immediately that the superintendent was thinking along the same lines . |
| 9 | Two years ago Benazir Bhutto was thinking along the same lines . |
| 10 | miners are working in the same , or similar , highly productive , profitable pits whose management decided to keep working if possible with the use of compliant labour . |
| 11 | Parents are going through the same or worse . |
| 12 | The other visitors are living under the same conditions . ’ |
| 13 | Influenced by the work of G.K. Gilbert , Hack argued that the concept of dynamic equilibrium provides a more reasonable basis for the interpretation of topographic forms in an erosionally graded landscape , that every slope and stream channel in an erosional system is adjusted to every other , and when the topography is in equilibrium and erosional energy remains the same , all elements of the topography are downwasting at the same rate . |
| 14 | The same story is being drawn out in group 3 ( Republics group ) where Spain and Denmark are playing at the same time as the two Irelands are playing . |
| 15 | Other international companies are moving in the same direction and many , like ICI and BP , are firmly committed in principle to community regeneration . |
| 16 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
| 17 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 18 | A qualitative analysis of the various subtests can be used to identify specific difficulties with grammar and as an indication of whether the child is progressing in the same way as most normal children , or whether there are signs of deviant patterns . |
| 19 | These had gone down rather well , and as our Baroque painting specialist was leaving at the same time as Youngman , voices were raised to say here was perhaps both the lecturer and the administrator we were looking for . |
| 20 | Where the snout , or end , of a glacier stayed in one place for many years — which was when the ice was advancing at the same rate as it was melting — more and more boulder clay was dumped at the glacier snout . |
| 21 | this explains why Golding 's choice of ending , rescue , is not anti-climatic as the choristers and schoolboys are returning to the same situation back in the outside world . |
| 22 | The TRW group is working on the same lines-but it will be a long time before GI Joe puts his faith in orders from General Computer . |
| 23 | The OR Staff are quite rightly intent on seeking battle-winning performance ; the scientists and technologists enjoy and rise to the challenge ; and so both the principal groups of participants in equipment development are pushing in the same direction without an effective countervailing force . |
| 24 | The director had told her most of the cast and crew were staying in the same hotel , and a room had been reserved for her there , too . |
| 25 | We have heard recently that Trafford is working on the same lines , so we will have to get a move on . |
| 26 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 27 | The longstanding quota of 14 per cent on foreign imports was still in place , but Channel 4 was buying a quarter of its programmes from independent companies , and the BBC was moving in the same direction . |
| 28 | McCoist did snatch at a mistimed clearance from Buttigieg but by then the appeal of a substitution was growing at the same rate as the crowd 's dismay . |
| 29 | ‘ I do feel , ’ Rune was continuing with the same reasonable approach with which he doubtless addressed a board meeting , ‘ that we need an in-depth discussion about its capabilities and design before we consider the best way to market it in the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 30 | LEEDS boss Doug Laughton and Liverpool manager Graeme Souness are swimming in the same shark-infested sea at the moment . |