Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [v-ing] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 That is , if the kidnappers are following the same route . ’
2 Molecules are sharing the same body with their remote molecular cousins .
3 I find that some of the ‘ B ’ band kids are doing the same syllabus , and in some cases they get the same marks or better marks than us , yet they ca n't do ‘ O ’ level and they 're in the ‘ B ’ band .
4 Most of the NATO countries are getting the same treatment . ’
5 Most other Insurance Companies are finding the same thing .
6 Yes , oh aye I Yes , we You had to measure , and in those days , the councils were grouped in what they called Assessment Committee Areas , and each were wor making sure the other areas were using the same sort of basis .
7 But in essence we are erm all of the sales er marketing execs are discussing the same thing with whichever organization .
8 The vole , he says , appears to be coming perilously close to being endangered ; and this means that Britain 's wetlands are going the same way .
9 By their recent actions , loyalist paramilitaries are tempting the same fate — with far more damaging long-term political effects .
10 If the majority of patients are undergoing the same type of surgery there may even be standard care plans or checklists to guide the nurses .
11 Other right-wing intellectuals were making the same point .
12 The tops and bottoms of Jack 's windows are sloping the same amount as the hillside .
13 More and more doctors are facing the same sort of dilemma , as the proportion of elderly people increases in Britain and medical advances make it possible to keep alive patients who would previously have died .
14 A team of over 100 scientists was working to produce a weapon of almost inconceivable power , ‘ their moral scruples overcome by the fascination of the research and the haunting fear that the Germans were following the same path ’ .
15 At first sight it may appear that all the children are doing the same thing but within each group allowance is made for ability and the children follow their own carefully planned programme at their own pace — this is updated regularly .
16 For now if you , as a supplier , observe a rise in the price of the good on your island of 10 per cent you can not be certain whether all other markets are experiencing the same rise on average .
17 The newspaper coverage may have contributed to bringing the crime into the public domain , but essentially the press and the police are using the same repertoire of scripts .
18 Other young fellows were doing the same thing ; we used to meet and recognize each other and compare notes — and pretty scathing we were at times with what we found .
19 A NHSME report says that district nurses are doing the same job as D- and E-grade community nurses .
20 As , yet again , Britain started its mopping up operation , tired rescue workers , tearful home owners and others were asking the same question : Whatever caused the heavens to open ?
21 Clearly the two rays of light shining through the slits are having the same sort of effect on each other as the two musical notes described above ; this is called interference .
22 Each animal reacts individually to the movements of the prey and each benefits from the fact that her companions are doing the same thing .
23 On a pure labour law test , on the other hand , it might be said that the fact that the employees were doing the same kind of work on the same machines should be enough to amount to a transfer of a business .
24 LONG before we started telling naive people to take what they were told with a pinch of salt , the Romans were issuing the same advice in the form of ‘ cum grano salis ’ , which was actually a mild pun .
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