Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flames did help to disperse the fog and also to make the runway more visible , but of course one air field could n't hope to cope with all the 8 Group heavies returning at the same time , and things were pretty chaotic for a few hours . |
| 2 | It did n't take long to get Graham 's eyes looking in the same direction . |
| 3 | Only eight out of 26 ministers retained their posts in a new Cabinet announced on July 19 ; key ministries remaining in the same hands included Defence under Maj.-Gen. |
| 4 | the establishment of a new species of law centre , ‘ Citizens ’ Law Centres , ’ financed out of public funds , without involvement in general community work such as the mounting of campaigns or political or social work , with clients paying on the same basis as legally-aided clients of private practitioners , managed by a central agency and advised by a local advisory committee ; |
| 5 | The future 's not certain for Little Jay , but to prevent other animals going through the same agony police say owners must be extra-vigilant . |
| 6 | With the narrow lanes around Bentworth , any approaching traffic would have had to give way and cars travelling in the same direction could have been held up . |
| 7 | Our public houses vary in terms of individual design and construction , but the plans provided are typical of the two types of unit distinguished in the Preliminary Report , and it may be assumed that appropriate proposals will be suitable for other units falling within the same category . |
| 8 | The minimal acceptances are thus essentially sets of channels , and so in constructing them we must identify all guards corresponding to the same channel . |
| 9 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
| 10 | The cultivation of a distinctive ‘ voice ’ becomes the primary means whereby journalists working on the same material and increasingly reliant on the same basic sources seek to make a name for themselves . |
| 11 | Under these conditions it is necessary to organise all employers operating within the same market to preclude the possibility of a wage increase secured at one firm adversely affecting its competitive position , and therefore employment . |
| 12 | In Berlin itself , there are over 4,000 Vietnamese , most of whom live three to a room in cramped hostels , paying well over the odds for the privilege ( Germans living in the same accommodation pay considerably less ) . |
| 13 | The author explores , in this paper , some philosophical arguments for equal distribution of scarce goods between people of different age groups living in the same society . |
| 14 | By being doctrinaire and parochial , it is easy to have a whole host of companies competing in the same home market ; but how many will be effective ( or even in business ) in ten years ' time ? |
| 15 | John Hick 's God and the Universe of Faith introduces the ‘ ecumenical ’ idea of many faiths believing in the same God . |
| 16 | In the worst possible case , with all errors operating in the same direction and all being at plus or minus two standard errors ( a most unlikely occurrence and an overstatement of the true joint confidence intervals ) , the estimated expenditure needs might range from £108 to £509 for every child aged 5–17 . |
| 17 | Of the joint registrations made in 1989 , 72% were made by parents living at the same address , which suggests that some 50% of children born outside marriage were born to a cohabiting couple . |
| 18 | Zuwaya probably used marriages to create alliances with members of other lineages living in the same place , and to maintain connection with members of the same lineage living in different places , even though they did not feel the same ecological pressures as the members of the Saadi confederation . |
| 19 | As there is much variation in numbers of thymocytes between mice of different litters of the same age but much less between mice belonging to the same litter , the numbers of total thymocytes are shown in comparison to wild-type or heterozygous littermates in a logarithmic scale . |
| 20 | The alternative criterion for assigning lexical units to a single lexeme is that their senses should be local senses belonging to the same sense-spectrum . |
| 21 | Institute president Ian Plaistowe , after reading a newspaper report of Mr Damant 's views , wrote to the Financial Times saying that : ‘ The reduction of differences in the accounting treatment of events and transactions arising in the same circumstances must surely remain as the standard-setters ’ prime objective' . |
| 22 | The BBC , who did not wish to go live , will take recorded highlights , the two companies agreeing on the same commentators . |
| 23 | What it will not do of course , is reconcile needs competing for the same resources . |
| 24 | Among carers living in the same household as the person receiving care , this difference is even more apparent , with 62 per cent of women providing help with personal care and 53 per cent being responsible for giving medication , compared with 43 per cent and 37 per cent of men respectively . |
| 25 | The only type of help in which , according to the 1985 GHS , men clearly outnumber women is in taking the disabled person out — 60 per cent of men compared with 49 per cent of women carers living in the same household as the person being given care ( Green , 1988 , p. 27 ) . |
| 26 | Carers living in the same household as the person receiving care , female carers , those with sole responsibility for providing care and those who were not economically active were especially disadvantaged . |
| 27 | There are five species of Dorylus or driver ants living in the same area of Africa . |
| 28 | In Southampton seamen aboard the Olympic jumped the gun by walking off the liner on 9 June following a stoppage by coal bunkerers and trimmers working on the same ship some days earlier . |
| 29 | Fifteen years working for the same company . |
| 30 | It means COHSE and NUPE members stopping the sick being admitted to hospital , and it means rail , tube and bus workers striking on the same day and bringing our capital city to a grinding halt . |