Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
| 2 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 3 | There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them . |
| 4 | The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously . |
| 5 | And Petrarch lived quite near here in Avignon , and I am seeing the same cypresses and oleanders … |
| 6 | In other words , we are seeing the same film , but it is the negative that is now being presented to us . |
| 7 | Do n't confuse this with the time-up bell , especially when many areas are in close proximity and all are using the same type of bell . |
| 8 | The newspaper coverage may have contributed to bringing the crime into the public domain , but essentially the press and the police are using the same repertoire of scripts . |
| 9 | Now there are less than 30,000 and those 30,000 are producing the same amount of milk as the higher number did previously . |
| 10 | All three patterns , the written , diagrammatical and the digital , are knitting the same shape , a rectangle . |
| 11 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 12 | ‘ We have customers who have been using the same set for more than 20 years , ’ he says . |
| 13 | I 've been using the same box for several years now . |
| 14 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 15 | Er this is quite commonly accepted as er in use in many places and I think my our colleagues on the other side of the table have been using the same basic modelling methodology . |
| 16 | Further down the beach , women and children are trolling the same waters with nets collecting coal dust to try to earn enough money to feed their children . |
| 17 | Success Sunderland are adopting the same formation that brought Ipswich success in the 70s , and the results have been encouraging enough to persuade the 37-year-old boss to call off his search for a midfield playmaker . |
| 18 | We are rowing the same boat , I think — ’ |
| 19 | The tops and bottoms of Jack 's windows are sloping the same amount as the hillside . |
| 20 | When Montaigne and Bacon stress the determining power of social custom they are developing the same idea of an order prior to and determining of consciousness , though now of course with the crucial difference that it is a non-teleological order , historical rather than divine , material rather than metaphysical . |
| 21 | It holds more true of some of us than of others , that in the struggle to make it new we are writing the same book all our lives ; and with Dostoevsky this truth is very true . |
| 22 | After that , a top executive tends to get stale , in Pearce 's opinion , because ‘ you 're seeing the same problems coming up for the second , third or even fourth time and you begin to think you 've done it all before . |
| 23 | You know so make sure the units are the same and the scale is the same so you 're using the same number of squares for each one . |
| 24 | Erm , we 're , we 're using the same agenda which is why conf confusion about venue on the front cos I said to my secretary |
| 25 | We 're using the same formulation . |
| 26 | The implication has been all along that they 're using the same United States manufacturing source but in fact there are one or two discrepancies here , erm , because the value is so high , I 'm actually sort of going through and looking at everything pretty closely , and they 've changed the basis so wow , . |
| 27 | And you 're going the same way , I can see that ! |
| 28 | Since then , Runrig have become a national institution and Capercaillie look as though they 're heading the same way . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh God , maybe we 're having the same one ! ’ she says excitedly . |
| 30 | Ask them if they 're having the same problem . ’ |