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

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1 One question which has concerned psycholinguists for many years is why there exist in English ( and in other languages ) several alternative syntactic options ( or paraphrases ) for expressing essentially the same information .
2 Figure 3.3 shows that the Japanese ‘ transplants ’ in the USA have significantly better productivity and quality than their local rivals , despite using roughly the same wage rates for US labour .
3 So we did n't have to go all the way to Lime Street , Liverpool , Chapman , with his characteristic attention to such details , had arranged for the train to make a special stop at Edgehill Station , to give us a better chance of getting home the same night .
4 No one was doing anything and I thought , ‘ Well , hell , I 'm guilty of doing exactly the same thing as everybody else is doing .
5 Do you really think that was a coincidence-gravity pulling on the Shuttle harder like that so both of you end up doing exactly the same thing ?
6 That kind of thing irked her , as did the difference in pay between women and men for doing practically the same work .
7 But they 're paid half as much as their continental colleagues for doing exactly the same job .
8 At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come .
9 With bigger overheads , these have to charge economical fees and can often be undercut by the medium agencies in doing exactly the same programme of work .
10 Because comparison is generally more important in science than the determination of an absolute value , we are generally involved in observing either the same sample at two different points of time between which X occurs , or two different samples at the same point in time , only one having been subjected to X.
11 If you have trouble in finding exactly the same varieties , you local nursery should be able to suggest some good alternatives .
12 Alcohol does not mimic a neurotransmitter , but at least some of its effects come from messing up the same synapses that heroin works on .
13 It also prevents one from churning out the same stuff of conversation over a long period to different people ( to use words at people ) which is using those people as hard reflective surfaces and not , as I feel properly , soft digestive reflective surfaces .
14 There are , the article reveals , scientists who pad a reference list of their publications by publishing almost the same material in several journals , altering the title a bit , dropping a paragraph or adding one , or doing the same with a table or graph .
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