Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although preferring the same soft acid water conditions favoured by the true Harlequin , espei tends to be less fussy about changes in the water chemistry . |
| 2 | Alternatively , if you expect to be in a high earning bracket , you might consider setting up a limited company , even if you are the only salaried employee , rather than launching the same business as a self-employed individual . |
| 3 | Her own clothes now , although comprising the same plain skirt and toning cardigan with a cream shirt , were bought , more often than not , from Yves St Laurent 's Rive Gauche , or Sonia Rykiel . |
| 4 | By the time the children have grown up , the marital relationship can be very empty , often extending little further than sharing the same house . |
| 5 | ‘ I think other things are more important than sharing the same profession . |
| 6 | This stage of training an owl is much more difficult than doing the same stage with a falcon , because with a falcon you just stick a hood over its head and let it get used to all the different noises . |
| 7 | They say giving someone a patch is far cheaper than treating the same person for heart disease or lung cancer . |
| 8 | Rather than giving the same recognition to differences among literacies which he proposes to be differences among languages , he uses what is in fact the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy as the basis for arguments about the specific nature of the English language . |
| 9 | After all , paying for something that does not work is presumably more likely to produce frustration than receiving the same ineffective care ‘ free ’ . |
| 10 | It is here that the polymer scientist needs to manipulate the cross-link and backbone structure , while maintaining the same water content , to limit deformation under eyelid load to around 5 per cent , with good elastic recovery . |
| 11 | There is also an upgrade to the SuperSparc ( Viking ) chip for the Sparcserver 600MP Series of multiprocessing servers , doubling the performance ceiling of these systems while maintaining the same range of price points . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | He itemised the steps by which East European Governments gained access to the free markets of West Europe , while denying the same freedom of access to West European manufacturers , and revealed how reciprocal trade deals negotiated with the multi-nationals resulted in unsuspecting third party EEC Governments being saddled with the import bill . |
| 14 | While keeping the same kind of security of tenure structure … it was made far weaker from the tenant 's point of view than under the 1977 Rent Act . |
| 15 | While tapping the same market , the chains approach the business customer in different ways . |
| 16 | BSL processing involves sequential and spatial codes , uses direct visual representation for its syntax while displaying the same complexity of meaning as English . |
| 17 | As your fitness improves you will find that your heart rate decreases while performing the same level of exercise . |
| 18 | We want to stay at the top level while doing the same things we did 40 years ago . |
| 19 | A certain amount of modification is desirable , which , while retaining the same amount of power and thrust , makes the movement fluid , not static . |
| 20 | Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children . |
| 21 | Sunday , while featuring the same diesel locos as the previous day , also boasted steam traction in the form of ex G.W.R. heavy freight No.2857 . |
| 22 | Unfortunately he pays little attention to the differences and the effect these have upon the implications of what we ascribe to animals whilst using the same forms of words . |
| 23 | Ironically , two great predecessors , Mallory and Irvine , died whilst attempting the same route in 1924 . |
| 24 | The correspondence problem is to identify specific portions of the changing image as representing the same object at different times . |
| 25 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |
| 26 | On the other hand , species like long-eared owls have different prey size spectra even when occupying the same geographical regions as barn owls or tawny owls . |
| 27 | Someone from industry might be seen by employers as speaking the same language as they do themselves . |
| 28 | Ian Taylor speculates that tree clumps may act as a respiratory system , drawing up earth energies and releasing them through the clump 's composite aura , as well as performing the same function with subtle celestial stimuli . |
| 29 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 30 | In the matter of contract , drunkenness is regarded as having the same effect as insanity . |