Example sentences of "[v-ing] in the same [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we analyse the relation between the event of " passively experiencing " denoted by have and that of saying or happening denoted by the infinitive , it becomes obvious immediately that the two must be conceived as occurring in the same stretch of time : one can only experience something while it is happening . |
| 2 | There are five species of Dorylus or driver ants living in the same area of Africa . |
| 3 | ‘ Is n't it a bit of a strain , though , living in the same house with them ? ’ |
| 4 | Nevertheless , species are real things , with real discontinuities between them — at least if we confine ourselves to sexual organisms living in the same place at the same time . |
| 5 | Whether you have just moved into a new home or have been living in the same place for years the main thing is that you are alone and you must make your home your pride , your joy , your sanctuary . |
| 6 | There was no reason for him to do so because the claims that he wished to make were quite simple ( they did not involve complex interactions of different speaker variables ) , and because in his analysis the same patterns were repeated for every variable studied , tending in the same direction in every case in terms of both class and style ( several classes and several styles ) . |
| 7 | The OR Staff are quite rightly intent on seeking battle-winning performance ; the scientists and technologists enjoy and rise to the challenge ; and so both the principal groups of participants in equipment development are pushing in the same direction without an effective countervailing force . |
| 8 | the 26 students seeking employment were looking in the same kinds of business areas as those who had been more successful in job search ; |
| 9 | Two years later we find Datini himself writing in the same vein to one of his partners in Spain , Cristofano di Bartolo , whom he wished to persuade to come home . |
| 10 | From the summit of Pillar continue ( south westwards ) to Scoat Fell ( 0.75 miles ) and then ( south eastwards ) to Red Pike ( 0.75 miles ) before heading in the same direction to Dore Head ( 0.75 miles ) — the gap between Red Pike and Yewbarrow . |
| 11 | the team leader at work who is concerned to ensure that members of the group are all pulling in the same direction towards greater productivity or an improved service . |
| 12 | Each layer or sheet , of which there may be 50 or 100 altogether , contains fibres of the protein collagen all pointing in the same direction within the plane of the layer , so that each sheet has a readily ( if you have an electron microscope ) discernible direction or polarity associated with it . |
| 13 | According to the Economist , the record also showed that Robert Gray , a senior campaign aide , was staying in the same hotel at that time . |
| 14 | In the summer of 1529 , during an outbreak of the plague in southern England , three men who had been students together at Cambridge found themselves by chance staying in the same house in Waltham . |
| 15 | Most shoplifters give themselves away by constantly looking around at cameras and cashiers or staying in the same area for a long time . |
| 16 | On principle I am against owning too many establishments dealing in the same merchandise in the one town . |
| 17 | It appears that at most it means falling in the same paragraph of Sched 1 . |
| 18 | Conditions in the contracting phase would not be suitable for the existence of intelligent beings who could ask the question : Why is disorder increasing in the same direction of time as that in which the universe is expanding ? |
| 19 | To tell you the truth , I was n't at all pleased about Russell sitting in the same coach with us . |
| 20 | Why not get used to doing this stretch throughout the day — especially if you have been sitting in the same position for any length of time ? |
| 21 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |
| 22 | At a greater distance from the throne are the inferior nobles , also standing in the same posture of profound reverence . |
| 23 | The poor Christian settlers in the mountains view the Buid as standing in the same relationship to them as they stand to their own patrons . |
| 24 | In linguistics , a defined class of written marks or letters of the alphabet , standing in the same relationship to a grapheme as a phone does to a segmental phoneme . |
| 25 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 26 | There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly . |
| 27 | So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine . |
| 28 | In some cases within the present study the very close correspondence in the titles of some pairs of theses originating in the same university at different times ( e.g. see numbers 156 and 347 ) , suggests that such repetition may have occurred . |
| 29 | This sort of pressure , combined with fear of the Spaniards , made it easier for the English to work with the French who were settling in the same region of islands than earlier or later generations would have thought possible . |
| 30 | It is not how much we read , nor even what we understand in our heads , but receiving in the same spirit in which the scriptures were first written . |