Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the same [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They need a new identity , but in seeking it they find themselves competing for the same political space with social movements that share their radical vocation . |
| 2 | The question for us now is whether these new forms of growth are occurring in the same geographical labour market areas as those of factory and public sector job losses . |
| 3 | Abruptly she felt as if she were on some kind of mental treadmill , returning to the same overworked grievance . |
| 4 | We would go on loving in the same old way … |
| 5 | LEEDS boss Doug Laughton and Liverpool manager Graeme Souness are swimming in the same shark-infested sea at the moment . |
| 6 | But more subject assessors operating in the same cognate group leads to the need for more induction and training . |
| 7 | According to the same official report , the rural areas fared no better , with the proportion of families classified as poor rising from 58 per cent in 1980 to 82 per cent in 1982 . |
| 8 | Politics and knowledge have worked according to the same Hegelian dialectic , with its ‘ phallo-logocentric Aufhebung ’ — whether it be Marxism 's History , Europe 's colonial annexations and accompanying racism or orientalist scholarship , or , in a typical conflation of patriarchy and colonialism , Freud 's characterization of femininity as the dark unexplored continent ( ’ within his economy , she is the strangeness he likes to appropriate' [ 68 ] ) . |
| 9 | The 600dpi printer will provide adequate quality setting for perhaps 60% of all typeset documents — according to the same American report — and many magazines and journals are created in just this way . |
| 10 | The Smiths seduce us into aspiring to the same heroic pitch of failure and exile . |
| 11 | People are paying about the same this year as they did in 1991 , according to industry figures . |
| 12 | As she went from the room , Beth could hear Cissie moaning behind her , and knew they would be going through the same old argument when she returned to the kitchen . |
| 13 | From all directions people were still pouring out of the maze of the Old City and heading towards one of the three gates of the Jama Masjid — three seething crocodiles of humanity heading towards the same walled courtyard . |
| 14 | Someone brought her a coffee and she smiled vague thanks , noting with the same odd detachment that her hands were shaking as she clasped them around the mug . |
| 15 | The important aspect of the relative clause proposal seems to be that both relative clause and postnominal adjective share the characteristics of linking an adjective to its head noun by the relation of assignment , not simple qualification , while remaining within the same entity-identifying phrase as that noun . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Merrill asked herself again , going over the same painful ground . |
| 18 | One kind of answer suggests that bird vision has been improving over the same evolutionary timespan as insect camouflage . |
| 19 | Here 's another new model from guy who has been riding for the same big-time company for literally eons . |
| 20 | The result of this process is a discrimination tree , any of whose sub-trees contain a set of words beginning with the same phonemic description . |
| 21 | He began to tidy the muddle , moving with the same economic efficiency his sister had shown . |
| 22 | Endless streams of similarly clad peasants hurried barefoot along the dikes and roadsides , moving with the same tireless rhythm as those workers in the fields . |
| 23 | The Troop Commander thought that they were probably flying round the same small area in a patch of strong sunlight to keep warm ; the Troop Staff Sergeant opined that there was probably something nasty buried beneath the carpet of dead leaves . |
| 24 | Said Mr. Barron : ‘ It gives a choice between staying in the same old muddle or reviving our economy , business and system of government . |
| 25 | All these institutions are controlled From above , all an subject to directives emanating from the same political institution or institutions , all have their key officials in the nomenklatura of higher Party officials ( that is , their officials are appointed and removed only when a Party organ takes the action or agrees to it ) , all have developed many of the characteristics associated with bureaucratization . |
| 26 | In principle for any word bearing an inflectional affix , it is possible to find contexts where all possible substitutes must contain either the same affix , or one belonging to the same closed set : consider the possible substitutes for walked in Cedric walked home , longer in Mine is longer than yours or books in those books . |
| 27 | Hence , even if the correct word was not in the lattice , it is very possible that an incorrect word belonging to the same syntactic category may have been present instead . |
| 28 | The Buid do not regard themselves , and are not regarded by the Christians , as belonging to the same social system , and as sharing an underlying set of political values . |
| 29 | ‘ I do feel , ’ Rune was continuing with the same reasonable approach with which he doubtless addressed a board meeting , ‘ that we need an in-depth discussion about its capabilities and design before we consider the best way to market it in the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And unless you 're one of Charity LeVille 's nubile masseuses over from Gros Islet … ’ he 'd reached the bed , and to her horror slung his jacket over a nearby chair and sat down on the edge of the bed , far too close for comfort , continuing in the same bland tone , ‘ … which from the pious clutching of bedclothes I somehow doubt , maybe you 'd like to explain exactly who you are ? ’ |