Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] the same [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 2 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 5 | Recognition that the members of organizations share group identities and have interests which may not coincide with others who are contributing to the same goals began with the Human Relations movement and its founder George Elton Mayo ( 1933 ) . |
| 6 | The other visitors are living under the same conditions . ’ |
| 7 | Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you . |
| 8 | This is why people who are the same age as one another usually end up being friends because they are going through the same experiences simultaneously . |
| 9 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 10 | It wo n't be competing for the same resources . |
| 11 | This summer he will be holidaying with the same friends with whom he shared his Holiday in Hell ( page 50 ) , although their destination this time is in the South of France . |
| 12 | The formal publication stage is much the same when it comes to record content — peer and institution review will still be looking for the same things . |
| 13 | Liz , from King 's Lynn , Norfolk , said : ‘ I am just sorry that families we know could be going through the same feelings we had when our men left for the Gulf . |
| 14 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 15 | Most people regard the sex act as a uniquely personal activity and find difficulty in imagining that anyone else could be suffering from the same problems as themselves . |
| 16 | We bring many new titles into our library every month , so you wo n't be reading about the same programs every time you pick up your copy of Practical PC . |
| 17 | We bring many new titles into our library every month , so you wo n't be reading about the same programs every time you pick up your copy of Practical PC . |
| 18 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 19 | Computer Associates is believed to be working along the same lines for the HP platform . |
| 20 | I wanted to work with people who are running a small firm , people who are dealing with the same problems as me because they 're running a small business . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 23 | the 26 students seeking employment were looking in the same kinds of business areas as those who had been more successful in job search ; |
| 24 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 25 | If the scanners were to be believed , two people were talking about the same matters in similar terms night after night . |
| 26 | I needed reassurance from many colleagues that they too were thinking along the same lines . |
| 27 | The pressure to do work against 'cos they knew that Germany were working on the same lines , did n't they , the enormous pressure to get there first . |
| 28 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 29 | She is staying at the same Gasthaus as you . |
| 30 | When Jack Nicklaus plays in a golf tournament , do you think he is playing under the same conditions as everybody else ? |