Example sentences of "[am/are] [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 The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously .
3 And Petrarch lived quite near here in Avignon , and I am seeing the same cypresses and oleanders …
4 In other words , we are seeing the same film , but it is the negative that is now being presented to us .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Now there are less than 30,000 and those 30,000 are producing the same amount of milk as the higher number did previously .
8 All three patterns , the written , diagrammatical and the digital , are knitting the same shape , a rectangle .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 We are rowing the same boat , I think — ’
12 The tops and bottoms of Jack 's windows are sloping the same amount as the hillside .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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
18 We 're using the same formulation .
19 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 , .
20 And you 're going the same way , I can see that !
21 Since then , Runrig have become a national institution and Capercaillie look as though they 're heading the same way .
22 ‘ Oh God , maybe we 're having the same one ! ’ she says excitedly .
23 Ask them if they 're having the same problem . ’
24 And th they they 've announced the next day that they 're having the same concert as well !
25 You 're doing the same !
26 ‘ If you build more prisons you 're doing the same thing , ’ the Governor said .
27 We 're doing the same thing here , we 've got a , a low resistance letting a lot of current in , letting a lot of current go through .
28 Also now that we 've got UNISON the one union I think they can help but I do think that 's what needs to be done , because they 're doing the same with the hospital as , as now doing with the pits even after the closure campaign .
29 And if we 're doing the same thing , they 're gon na s sooner of later they 're gon na click and they 're gon na say , Well you know , that 's too much of a good thing like you know .
30 Because whatever er product area you work in then you 're doing the same thing as everybody else is .
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