Example sentences of "[prep] the same breath " in BNC.
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1 | New actors need to try and widen their range all the time and in the same breath find a way of being commercially as well as artistically viable . |
2 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
3 | At that time hardly anyone but Winters would have named Williams in the same breath as Eliot , and it is characteristic of Winters 's perversity ( or his independence ) that thirty years later , when it had become usual to set Williams up against Eliot , Winters 's opinion of Williams had long been much less favourable . |
4 | Guide to Kulchur gives us Pound at his most personal , at his most deliberately vulnerable ; it is here that we find him wondering aloud , for instance , if the body of his work to that date could be mentioned in the same breath with Thomas Hardy 's . |
5 | Well , that 's the way it goes , Piper , ’ and in the same breath , ‘ look in that canvas bag on the back seat and help yourself to what you want . ’ |
6 | Lawrence 's masquerade of adjustment involves a projection of his own fears , anxieties , and neurosis which , in the Swift/Celia case , is especially revealing because in the same breath he consciously repudiates the scapegoating process which partly comprises that projection ( pp. 303 — 4 ) . |
7 | Chamberlain refers to this in the same breath as mentioning an argument between the Marquess Buckingham and Hamilton over ‘ the selling of honours and abasing ancient nobility , by new advancements ’ . |
8 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang as singles players , but neither has made quite the same impact as yet . |
9 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , but neither has made the same impact as yet . |
10 | And yet , awkwardly , schizophrenically , these twisted sickos are taken up by the right-on , their cause espoused in the same breath as calls for a better world the assumption being that the better things in life — hip hop imports , clothes , socialism — would undoubtedly cohabit in utopia . |
11 | Norman Cook will never be spoken about in the same breath as Jazzie B , yet ‘ Dub Be Good To Me ’ is one of the hardest records you will ever hear seeping out of a Ford Escort at the traffic lights . |
12 | Her concerns were here , in front of her , concerns that were domestic and intimate and not to be spoken of in the same breath as supposedly greater events . |
13 | This means that statements can be made describing typical differences in wealth between the country groups without needing to mention the differences in spread in the same breath . |
14 | It wallows in the worst excesses of sentimentality and adopts a moral tone that condemns and condones misbehaviour in the same breath . |
15 | It would be a disservice to Denis Law to mention him in the same breath as some of Scotland 's more notorious hell-raisers . |
16 | Mostly when they are mentioned they are mentioned in the same breath as legacies . |
17 | ‘ I do n't know how you can even speak of her in the same breath . ’ |
18 | They disparage themselves for doubting and in the same breath defend their doubt like a treasured possession which nothing could persuade them to give up . |
19 | I can legitimately say , ‘ I know ’ , and add in the same breath , ‘ but I am open to being shown I am wrong ’ . |
20 | Comfort means different things to different people , but when food and comfort are mentioned in the same breath , chances are that the tastes and textures of childhood will come back to visit us whether we consciously realise it or not . |
21 | Thus one might , said Dionysius , say that God was ‘ good ’ but it was necessary to qualify this in the same breath : he was Goodness itself but he was not ‘ good ’ in the limited way that human beings understood this quality . |
22 | Mentioning Tolkien in the same breath with Shakespeare will seem to many rash , even perverse . |
23 | They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath . |
24 | Then , almost in the same breath and contemplating all that space , he added , ‘ You 're not going to fill it up with furniture are you ? ’ |
25 | Yet almost in the same breath they stated that men should earn more because they had ‘ wives and bairns ’ to support . |
26 | Nor has he condemned right-wing extremism without condemning the rarer left-wing sort in the same breath . |
27 | In the same breath as admitting that Lightning , the high-end , super-pipelined Sparc chip that it was developing in conjunction with LSI Logic Corp and Hyundai Electronics , was n't going to strike after all , Metaflow Technology also began to talk about a next-generation effort in design that would follow ( UX No 273 ) . |
28 | In the same breath , Tenon has also rolled-out X Client and X Server software for MachTen X-Windows . |
29 | The initials ‘ BCCI ’ and ‘ CIA ’ were even beginning to be mentioned in the same breath . |
30 | It was felt that the government was not sincere in the implementation of community care because they mention community care in the same breath as cutbacks . |