Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [n mass] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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1 | Most of the surveys showing that unemployed people are less healthy than the employed are cross-sectional in nature ( comparing different people at the same time , rather than following the changes in people 's lives over a period of time ) . |
2 | Modelling several series at the same time is more appropriate in certain circumstances . |
3 | In other words , it is not arbitrary that the wolf and dog are closer to one another than either is to the cat , but it is to some extent arbitrary whether one recognizes some given degree of similarity by placing two species in the same genus , or in the same family . |
4 | On the one hand , there is certainly a resistance to change and to new ideas ; academics appear quite happy to continue teaching the same old syllabuses as if there had been no ‘ explosion ’ ( Dr P 's word ) in English studies ; at the same time , there is no resistance to allowing other people within the same department to teach quite different things to students , and to do quite different types of research . |
5 | When fired at a school of fish , these seem to act like a shotgun , disorienting many fish at the same time . |