Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 2 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 3 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 4 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 5 | Recognition that the members of organizations share group identities and have interests which may not coincide with others who are contributing to the same goals began with the Human Relations movement and its founder George Elton Mayo ( 1933 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | EXTERNAL VERIFICATION is the process by which SCOTVEC ensures that , on a national basis , centres are operating to the same standard . |
| 8 | After all , we are looking for the same thing . ’ |
| 9 | 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 … ’ |
| 10 | For example , if the adult holds an object , such as a doll , in the child 's line of gaze , the child is likely to look at the object and then immediately glance at the adult 's face to check that they are looking at the same thing . |
| 11 | Here we are looking at the same argument using the energy input in absolute terms . |
| 12 | Whenever you find an A.sessilis or A. reineckii you are looking at the same plant : A. rosaefolia . |
| 13 | The other visitors are living under the same conditions . ’ |
| 14 | They are living in the same house , eating at the same table , and , in the case of Lizzie , part of my own being . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ All I 'm trying to do is to find a solution to the problems we 're bound to run into if we 're living under the same roof , ’ she said stiffly . |
| 20 | ‘ This is not London , you know , and the local girls are happy-go-lucky , so the relationships when you 're living in the same house tend to be even more happy-go-lucky . ’ |
| 21 | They 're looking at the same place where … ’ |
| 22 | We 're going to the same destination . ’ |
| 23 | They 're going round the same circle because that is the shape of the surface . |
| 24 | We 're staying at the same hotel and sharing the same table , you see . |
| 25 | I 've yet to see a lovable moptop Inspiral Carpet in the flesh , but obviously they 're on the verge of making it here when they 're staying in the same hotel as Bruce Dickinson out of Iron Maiden . |
| 26 | Well they understand what they 're doing in the same way as they understand what they 're doing when they 're watching a video . |
| 27 | … I think you can only treat them similarly if all other things are equal , if they 're discharging into the same sort of watercourse in the same sort of position . |
| 28 | Now , I think once we 've established that , we can have argument about whether members need more assistance , but at least we 're arguing on the same basis , are n't we ? |
| 29 | And we 're talking at the same time as well ? |
| 30 | Cos we 're talking of the same product , one , one , quotes ninety six dollars and the other quotes a hundred and thirty seven dollars . |