Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [v-ing] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared to the experience of hearing music ‘ live ’ even under unfavourable circumstances there is often very little sense that the musicians are pulling in the same direction , or that the music ebbs and flows in a natural , organic or above all believable way . |
| 2 | Revisiting the site at intervals ( of at least a week ) note whether the marked animals are feeding on the same prey or not . |
| 3 | Not all subjects are changing at the same pace although the national curriculum will in time no doubt reach some kind of consistency . |
| 4 | I mean , surely the English hens were laying at the same rate as they did in peacetime ? |
| 5 | miners are working in the same , or similar , highly productive , profitable pits whose management decided to keep working if possible with the use of compliant labour . |
| 6 | Parents are going through the same or worse . |
| 7 | The other visitors are living under the same conditions . ’ |
| 8 | Other international companies are moving in the same direction and many , like ICI and BP , are firmly committed in principle to community regeneration . |
| 9 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
| 10 | this explains why Golding 's choice of ending , rescue , is not anti-climatic as the choristers and schoolboys are returning to the same situation back in the outside world . |
| 11 | EXTERNAL VERIFICATION is the process by which SCOTVEC ensures that , on a national basis , centres are operating to the same standard . |
| 12 | Nurses should therefore discover from patients what meaning these words have for them , so that they can be sure that they and the patients are talking about the same conditions . |
| 13 | When charged particles are travelling at the same velocity , and are subject to the same magnetic field , the heavier particles are deflected the least . |
| 14 | A number of ships were leaving at the same time — presumably with what they 'd come for , after Recovery — but we were slotted into the readiness pattern at fourth place . |
| 15 | The second reason for urban bias was the fact that the radio broadcasters themselves lived in the towns : the people who spoke to them and commented on their programmes were living in the same environment . |
| 16 | Dad 's family were living at Charlton-All-Saints between Salisbury and Downton in the mid eighteen-nineties and , as was the custom , not only grandfather but also his two elder sons were working on the same farm . |
| 17 | They are none the less important , for other industries are moving in the same direction . |
| 18 | For example , if there is an unexpected budgetary overshoot , the labour force can effortlessly be reduced by simply not renewing employment contracts , which is why industries are succumbing to the same ruthless logic . |
| 19 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 20 | In the latter case , whether or not explicit communication takes place , each firm has to decide on the choice of action which is in its own best interest in the light of the fact that the others are behaving in the same way : we have a non-co-operative game . |
| 21 | Output thereafter went up so that the women were earning about the same as before the job was changed . |
| 22 | Had the decision-makers been aware of the choices others were making during the same period , they would have perceived opportunities for more attractive courses of market action than those actually adopted . |