Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one thing to win the support of electors by defeating an enemy for the first time ; it is quite another to expect admiration for slaying the same dragon twice . |
| 2 | As an example , property insurance is cheaper than liability insurance , so that it makes more sense , for instance , for a site-owner to insure against the fire risk of a fire caused by an installer , under fire insurance , than it does for the installer to insure against liability for causing the same risk , under a public liability or contractor 's all risks policy . |
| 3 | If a man believes in a different god , or even if he uses a different ritual for worshipping the same god , blind faith can decree that he should die — on the cross , at the stake , skewered on a Crusader 's sword , shot in a Beirut street , or blown up in a bar in Belfast . |
| 4 | Whether this is a real practical difficulty depends on whether the desire to save face would not anyway have this effect of encouraging the same decision to be made again , even if there were no risk of a damages award . |
| 5 | If an employer does not prevent them availing themselves of the opportunity to learn business secrets how can he later seek to restrain an employee from using the same information . |
| 6 | It commits the industry to applying the same ban on billboard advertising overlooking playgrounds as already applies to billboard advertising close to schools . |
| 7 | Whelan chose the Faldo route to fame and fortune , employing world No 1 coach David Leadbetter in the hope of acquiring the same consistency . |
| 8 | The obvious difficulty of having the same method of election for both Houses is that it would tend to produce a mirror image and devalue the House of Lords as a check . |
| 9 | Once again , this gives experience of moulding the same amount into different forms . |
| 10 | All of this immediacy is missing from the experience of viewing the same lecture recorded on video . |
| 11 | there 's no likelihood of getting the same sort of regime that we 've got which I know is n't democratic in that sense |
| 12 | Many amateur players fall into the trap of using the same club when chipping . |
| 13 | But they too were in danger of meeting the same fate , and for the same reason : the document safeguarding the rights of the monastic community , which St Thomas had intended to make , did not exist . |
| 14 | Still , if there were villages in Ireland these days where a man might be in danger of meeting the same ill-fortune face to face , Owen feared he was getting near them . |
| 15 | Prague , the much vaunted Sleeping Beauty is in danger of enduring the same fate as Venice , with the Sleeping Beauty being snogged to death by the West . |
| 16 | Mr Knapp said he hoped British Rail would recognise the anger among its 130,000 workers , but added : ‘ The board is in danger of making the same mistake as in 1989 of underestimating the mood of its workforce . ’ |
| 17 | IBM was perceived as the winner , just as today , even the things it does right are in trouble because IBM is perceived as the industry 's most emphatic loser , and more and more people are talking seriously about the company being in danger of going the same way as Prime Computer Inc , Wang Laboratories Inc and Control Data Corp . |
| 18 | An architecture centre is in danger of doing the same thing and , to that extent , is distinctly against the interests of the membership as a whole . |
| 19 | What would turn me either to stone or to desperation would be the boredom of hearing the same thing over and over again . |
| 20 | One obstacle to adopting the same course under the new Act is that , in the cases of riot , violent disorder and affray , where the conduct of joint defendants is to be assessed together , the Act actually says so . |
| 21 | Mr Fowler said that while the existing law provided that it was automatically unfair to dismiss anyone for not being a union member , the bill completed the outlawing of the closed shop by extending the same protection to people applying for jobs . |
| 22 | If this is correct , by parity of reasoning the same conclusion would apply to a bankruptcy petition . |
| 23 | He came to the conclusion , as he puts it , ‘ that the eternal world is trivial , and that mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words . ’ |
| 24 | The lifelong speciality of handling the same tool becomes the lifelong speciality of serving the same machine … . |
| 25 | The lifelong speciality of handling the same tool becomes the lifelong speciality of serving the same machine … . |
| 26 | Lamb 's friends are asking why Gower was given a free hand to make his remarks while Lamb faces one of the toughest penalties ever imposed in cricket for making the same kind of accusation . |
| 27 | Having proved the value of a design-led business , Conran saw the logic of applying the same approach to other retail companies that had perhaps got left behind in the high-street revolution . |
| 28 | Bodie shivered at the thought of undergoing the same operation as his colleague . |
| 29 | Japanese plans to build an international airport on the Shiraho reef have been abandoned — in favour of building the same airport on the next reef along . |
| 30 | The rig is also used to encourage the turn by using the same steering technique as on a run |