Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [to-vb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kodak , for example , is beginning to reap the same sorts of advantage as it carefully allocates supply among all its producing units . |
| 2 | Instead of turning brick-red or prawn-cocktail-pink , as she had feared , she is turning a pleasant beige , a natural beige , she is beginning to look the same colour that people look in television advertisements . |
| 3 | Once everybody 's favourite fledgling PC maker , the firm — now fully grown with annual sales of $3.6 billion — is starting to suffer the same ills that it used to lampoon in its big bad competitors . |
| 4 | Another study conducted in 1989 is starting to show the same phenomenon : the majority of patients with their first myocardial infarct do not have severe , diffuse coronary disease ; they may have a single lesion affecting only a single vessel . |
| 5 | Any attempt to quantify the relative intelligences of species — and even of human beings from different cultural backgrounds — is quite patently misguided : one is trying to apply the same measure to two qualitatively different things . |
| 6 | At a certain level of abstraction there is a sense in which any speech processing mechanism is trying to solve the same search problem ( see Goodman & Reddy 1980 ) . |