Example sentences of "stand in the same " in BNC.

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1 These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being .
2 Suppose there exists a word form W , which in context C(1) stands in a particular meaning relation to another element A(1) , but in context C(2) stands in the same meaning relation not to A(1) , but to A(2) :
3 A trade union to my mind stands in the same position .
4 Yet lexical access stands in the same relation to these levels as the acoustic front end stands to lexical access .
5 Today the president , Mrs Macpherson , in between gracefully shaking hands with each new arrival and presenting her to Mrs MacDonald , decided that she was nothing but a vulgar upstart , and she trembled with suppressed irritation at having to stand in the same receiving line with her .
6 Tamas had attempted to stand in the same constituency in the 1985 general election , but had been thwarted by what he had alleged to be communist manipulation of the candidate selection process [ see p. 33812-13 ] .
7 Forty-two years on , the same pair stand in the same spot , still very much in love .
8 If there exists a word or expression standing in a relation of oppositeness to one occurrence of a word form , which does not stand in the same relation to a second , syntactically identical occurrence of the same word form in a different context , then that word form is ambiguous , and the two occurrences exemplify different senses .
9 If there exists a word which stands in a paronymic relation to one occurrence of a word form , but does not stand in the same relation to a second , syntactically identical occurrence of the same word form in a different context , then that word form is ambiguous , and the two occurrences exemplify different senses .
10 One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) .
11 Marjorie made a moue at Isobel , who had walked over to the cot in the far comer of the room and was standing in the same apparently relaxed but watchful posture she had displayed downstairs .
12 They were separate , there was space between them , but , like flowers in a vase , they were all standing in the same water .
13 While standing in the same street , joy would notice the creative window displays and smiling faces , hear the laughter and smell the roasting chestnuts on the street corner ; while Gloom would see the traffic , litter and inflated prices , hear the honking horns and smell the exhaust fumes .
14 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 .
15 By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half .
16 Leon always opened his door after that and , standing in the same spot where I could see him , he would play .
17 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 .
18 At a greater distance from the throne are the inferior nobles , also standing in the same posture of profound reverence .
19 Claudia raced for the towel ; he was still standing in the same place and still looking helpless as she dealt briskly with the spill .
20 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 .
21 This time I made sure my master went first and , whilst he ran down the stairs , I scampered like a rabbit to the top of the tower , forcing back the trap door , standing in the same place that poor Falconer had .
22 Arafat met frequently with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in the run-up to the expiry of the Jan. 15 deadline , and reaffirmed on Jan. 14 that " Palestine and Iraq are standing in the same trench to regain Arab rights " .
23 My father ignored it , too , standing in the same position as before , head cocked .
24 An instant later she recalled the forty-year-old lady , who twenty-five years earlier had stood in the same place and had waved at her father in the same way .
25 There the colonnade was wider and the slender arches more open ; standing in the deep shade , I looked out over the tree-tops and the sea to the languishing ash-lilac mountains … a déjà vu feeling of having stood in the same place , before that particular proportion of the arches , that particular contrast of shade and burning landscape outside — I could n't say .
26 Suddenly , a girl aged about 16 walked up from one of the scattered houses in the village and stood in the same spot he intended to use for his photography .
27 The aircraft Crew Chief had a routine that he followed when opening the bomb doors and he always stood in the same place ; fairly adjacent to one of the doors .
28 ‘ Before any enactment existed with regard to actions by solicitors for their costs , a solicitor stood in the same position as any other person who has done work for another at his request , and could sue as soon as the work which he was retained to do was finished , without having delivered any signed bill of costs or waiting for any time after the delivery of such a bill .
29 The lower marble fragment from Delos stood in the same way , and no doubt the upper also ; and throughout the archaic age the naked male statue stands always just as these .
30 If you went and stood in the same place now then obviously it would look different in that sense , would n't it so the background if you like would be different would n't it with high rise and maybe a different .
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