Example sentences of "[v-ing] the same [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realised that the Communist parties had lost touch with their peoples and that he could not logically denounce Stalinist terror and neo-Stalinist stagnation in his own country without accepting the same for the countries which Stalin forcibly incorporated into the Soviet empire . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | we must immediately satisfy the demands of the Ukrainians and the Finns , ensure them , as well as all other non-Russian nationalities in Russia , full freedom , including freedom of secession , applying the same to Armenia , undertaking to evacuate that country as well as the Turkish lands occupied by us . |
| 4 | To calculate the probability of finding a real space-time with some certain property , such as looking the same at every point and in every direction , one adds up the waves associated with all the histories that have that property . |
| 5 | In any one place , the two species gain by resembling each other , because predators will treat them both as the same kind of prey ; but few predators move far enough for there to be any advantage to the Heliconius in looking the same in distant places . |
| 6 | 1823 " Now direct the Collector to pay Twenty pounds Sterling as the sum formerly stented , and to be appropriated for the suppression of thieves — of which sum the Collector will be discharged on paying the same to Mr. McAlpine … for his outlay on his dwelling house . " |
| 7 | Well , that 's certainly true , but Bridgemere is absorbing the extra cost itself so you 'll be paying the same for the nursery 's coir-grown plants as you would for peat-raised plants . |
| 8 | paying the same for it . |
| 9 | Sometimes those who espouse notions of equal opportunity in education confuse that expression of intent with providing the same for everyone , which of course is a denial of equal opportunity . |
| 10 | Thus , in trying to change teaching , ironically it is likely that the recommendations arising from this kind of research , like much of the research on teacher effectiveness that preceded it , will help keep teaching the same by failing to look outside the parameters of the transmission model . |
| 11 | The mix of titles was excellent , but people were trading down — buying the same in volume but spending less on each item . ’ |
| 12 | Like other human institutions , restaurants have a way of staying the same after all manner of changes — of menu , chef , management , even premises . |
| 13 | True — but can you imagine saying the same after a performance of Don Giovanni or Tchai 4 ? |
| 14 | Sometimes , as with theatres , underpricing happens because organisers choose not to set their prices according to the market — charging the same for tickets on Saturday night as on Wednesday , for instance . |
| 15 | QPR are also charging the same for their shirts as they did last year — £19.99 — and although their shorts and socks are not yet available they are still among the cheapest . |
| 16 | They could maintain the status quo , by charging the same in depreciation as would have been charged in principal repayments . |
| 17 | Nellie was doing the same at the other side . |
| 18 | I recall some of the chaps doing the same at Oundle . ’ |
| 19 | The kid brother went on to make a moderate fortune doing the same with golf balls and golf clubs . |
| 20 | There are , the article reveals , scientists who pad a reference list of their publications by publishing almost the same material in several journals , altering the title a bit , dropping a paragraph or adding one , or doing the same with a table or graph . |
| 21 | Parents may shun sport , but one could not accuse them of doing the same with education and , as Haringey 's Clarence Callynder pointed out : ‘ Some overdo it ; they push their kids too much at school . |
| 22 | It is doing the same with another original in October . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Yes , and I 've broken it up into parts , I 'll be doing the same with Bernard and Tony , incidentally . |
| 25 | Got some fresh air , yes it was very nice cos there was other people doing the same with little children , there was no big children except for |
| 26 | ‘ Or like this … ? ’ , doing the same to the other , at which point she fled in tears . ’ |
| 27 | ( Remember Dupin being able to tell his friend step by step just what his silent train of thought had been , and Holmes doing the same to Watson . ) |
| 28 | Tom imagines doing the same to larger and larger animals , all of whom look equally shocked . |
| 29 | Having scraped through against Ballymoney in the first round , the Bannsiders proceeded to shock everyone by doing the same to the Ports and Glens . |
| 30 | Examples would be : where the act is not seen , as when the victim is asleep ; where the victim believes that the gun was unloaded ( Lamb [ 1967 ] 2 QB 981 ) ; where the victim knows by the accused 's words that the threat will not take place ( Tuberville v Savage ( 1669 ) 86 ER 684 ; or where the accused could not put his threat into effect : the usual illustrations are shaking a fist while on a non-stop train at a person standing on the platform and doing the same to a person standing on the opposite bank of a fast-flowing and wide river where there is no bridge . |