Example sentences of "[v-ing] the same [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 2 | But , if the material is commonplace , there would be nothing to stop an ex-employee deriving the same or similar material again as long as he did not simply copy his employer 's material . |
| 3 | But do remember to make use of the facilities on offer — for example , you can use the Copy command to save typing the same or similar details . |
| 4 | But the incidence of cancer among paranoid schizophrenics in the same or similar institutions eating the same or similar American diet is higher than that of the normal population ( Simonton et al . |
| 5 | It was obliged to do so if it was to operate within a competitive market where there were a sufficient number of firms producing the same or a substitutable commodity so that each firm was incapable of influencing the price of the commodity by adjusting its output . |
| 6 | If Midland Life is required to make any payment under the Policyholders ' Protection Act 1975 ( or any enactment amending or replacing the same or of a similar nature ) or if there is any change in the law or Inland Revenue practice affecting a Guaranteed Capital Bond the benefits provided by such a Bond may be varied by Midland Life in such manner as the Midland Life Actuary considers appropriate . |
| 7 | Because I 'm on T.V. I have to keep it looking the same and so it 's trimmed every five to six weeks . |
| 8 | In the last resort his conduct is in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ , because he would be acting the same if he were capable of full awareness both of the goal of saving life and of the temporary anguish he is inflicting , but being merely human he would lose sight of the goal if he let his mind dwell on the pain . |
| 9 | By a writ dated 11 October 1989 the plaintiff , Derbyshire County Council , claimed ( 1 ) damages for libel contained in articles appearing in the issue of ‘ The Sunday Times ’ dated 17 September 1989 entitled ‘ Revealed ; Socialist tycoon 's deals with a Labour chief ’ and ‘ Bizarre deals of a council leader and the media tycoon ’ , and in the issue dated 24 September 1989 entitled ‘ Council share deals under scrutiny ’ published by the defendants , Times Newspapers Ltd. , Andrew Neil , the editor , Rosemary Collins and Peter Hounam , two of the newspaper 's journalists ; and ( 2 ) an injunction to restrain the defendants , their servants or agents from publishing the same or any similar libel of the plaintiff council . |
| 10 | Of course we 've got the training and testing the same as in normal networks . |
| 11 | Where a person enters into a covenant to pay sums to another person for a period which can not exceed six years those amounts shall be treated as the income of the person who is paying the same and not the income of any other person ( TA 1988 , s660(1) ) . |
| 12 | ‘ And you 're on to a winner with the poll tax , paying the same as us . ’ |
| 13 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 14 | Cos there was different er things do you see , infantry , Royal Welsh and things like that , they were going the same as us . |
| 15 | Notice that the frequency of the output wave is unaffected , this remaining the same as the frequency of the input clock pulses . |
| 16 | 205. ( 1 ) ( ix ) Land includes … land of any tenure , and mines and minerals , whether or not held apart from the surface , buildings or parts of buildings ( whether the division is horizontal , vertical or made in any other way ) and other corporeal hereditaments ; also a manor , an advowson , and a rent and other incorporeal hereditament , and an easement , right , privilege , or benefit in , over , or derived from land ; but not an undivided share in land ; and " mines and minerals " include any strata or seam of minerals or substances in or under any land , and powers of working and getting the same but not an undivided share thereof ; and " manor " includes a lordship , and reputed manor or lordship ; and " hereditament " means any real property which on an intestacy occurring before the commencement of this Act might have devolved upon an heir … |
| 17 | I thought maybe he was getting the same as Richard and Bryony had had , but he 's cheered up . |
| 18 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 19 | Nor is coaching the same as either counselling or formal appraisal . |
| 20 | All the other voices around me were saying the same and the distant peal of the convent bell mingling , not incongruously , with the cry from the minaret went unheeded . |
| 21 | It 's where you get the interest on interest throughout the years and would otherwise pay tax on that interest and do n't and the amount that you have n't paid stays in and gets the compounding the same as the interest . |
| 22 | Eventually the program will organise all the samples into groups having the same or similar ‘ fingerprints ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ So you see , what with the Church never keeping adequate records and relying on the personal network all the time and the patronage system doing the same but relying on a different network , we 're all rather in the dark . ’ |
| 24 | In 1970 , the Equal Pay Act made it unlawful to pay women less than men for doing the same or similar work ( although this was not to be implemented until 1975 ) . |
| 25 | Futures exchanges are linked to the underlying physical markets , so that the option of doing the same or similar business in an off-exchange market is an ever-present reality . |
| 26 | Remember , in five years , time , most of these people will either be press officers ( doing the same as you are , but with less loving care ) or they will have been kicked upstairs to edit a page instead of writing on it , thereby saving readers from any more of their insufferable prose . |
| 27 | I am horrified to think that there could be 120,000 Kiwis of Scots descent who are doing the same as me and depriving you of decent circulation . |
| 28 | And it seems to me that China was just doing the same as St Stalin did . |
| 29 | Role B : Keep the details of what you were doing the same as for the last interview . |
| 30 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |