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

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1 The Aleutian trench is thus where it hits the North American Plate ; the trenches of Kurlin , Japan , Bonin , Mariana ( the deepest in the world , with a hole of 36,201 feet ) , Yap , Palau and Manus indicate its collision with the Eurasian Plate ; the Mussau , Solomon , Vitiaz , Torres and New Hebrides trenches show where the Pacific Plate overrides the subducted Indo-Australian Plate ; and the Tonga , Kermadec , Hikurangi , Hjort , Iselin and Balleny trenches demonstrate the effect of bumping into the same Indo — Australian Plate and passing beneath it .
2 Make a simple plan of the area and trace or copy shapes of paving to the same scale .
3 And conversely , of course , contrast of meaning with the same word order :
4 The debt and the facility are under a single agreement or course of dealing with the same lender or group of lenders .
5 Different types of pupil will gravitate towards different sub-topics , but all will have the common link of starting from the same stimulus ; it will be possible for all children to contribute to whatever may be the concluding feature , such as an exhibition , poster or class booklet .
6 Are you still sort of staying at the same or
7 It 's difficult really because I mean we 're sort of striving for the same sort of things
8 But anyway it transpired that there were two groups sort of working towards the same end and nobody could work out what sort of erm role each played and it was terrible .
9 Whistling in the wind , that had been , because they had settled for half , and never recovered from the shame of behaving in the same way as the typists and fitters and laboratory assistants .
10 In tailoring user behaviour to fit the system , there is the danger of falling into the same trap as the conventional catalogue , where the tool tailors the task .
11 This can meet her need temporarily when she is at some crisis point , providing , for all concerned , a trial period of living under the same roof , in this tactful guise of a holiday — without commitment on either side .
12 After three years of operating under the same roof , the section of Art Basel devoted to contemporary prints will now move to a separate location and take place earlier than the main body of the fair .
13 I think we have got to sort out these problems of restructuring at the same time as those of market and state regulation .
14 Was she on the verge of falling into the same trap again ?
15 In prose writing , the discrepancy between identity of meaning and identity of sense is well exemplified in the device of so-called elegant variation : we have already noted , for instance p107 ) , Henry James 's use of non-synonymous expressions : " the poor young man " , " this personage " , etc , as ways of referring to the same person .
16 To believe the gospel , respond to Jesus or receive the Spirit are three ways of looking at the same thing ( 2 Cor. 11:4 ) .
17 Within the natural sciences there was little of that passionate and puzzled confrontation which occurs when there is a clash , not of different hypotheses , but of different ways of looking at the same problem , i.e. when one party proposes not merely a different answer , but one which the other party considers to be impermissible or ‘ unthinkable ’ .
18 Do n't try to follow both sets of shaping at the same time because it wo n't work and you will find yourself becoming totally confused .
19 He or she will receive a flow of income over the year and will engage in a flow of spending over the same period .
20 He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived .
21 ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had .
22 In addition , it is obvious that it can not be relied on until there has been a substantial amount of trading between the same parties .
23 Another but more legally complicated way of arriving at the same result under the subsection is to say that , when the police seek to intervene , it is likely that a belief is likely to arise in the mind of the first victims , that violence towards the police is a likely outcome of the defendant 's conduct .
24 Another way of putting across the same kind of message is :
25 Since the average rate at which the foreign debt was raised was probably about 25 dinars , its dinar value in early 1988 was about 50 times as great , approximately the same as the change in the cost of living over the same period .
26 the fact of belonging to the same class , and that of belonging to the same generation or age group , have this in common , that both endow the individuals sharing in them with a common location in the social and historical process , and thereby limit them to a specific range of potential experience , predisposing them for a certain characteristic mode of thought and experience , and a characteristic type of historically relevant action .
27 It moves towards the acceptance of belonging at the same time to a larger enterprise which combines the strengths of sharing and collaboration and the sharpness of keeping an eye out for one 's own survival .
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