Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] 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 | ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Ski with a friend and make some fairly short-radius turns which the second skier will try to emulate at exactly the same moment ( ie turn at the same time rather than follow the same track ) . |
6 | By the time the children have grown up , the marital relationship can be very empty , often extending little further than sharing the same house . |
7 | ‘ I think other things are more important than sharing the same profession . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | They say giving someone a patch is far cheaper than treating the same person for heart disease or lung cancer . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | After all , paying for something that does not work is presumably more likely to produce frustration than receiving the same ineffective care ‘ free ’ . |
12 | Since the 1978 UN Conference on Health at Alma Ata it has become a universal wisdom that it is much more effective to build a primary health care network than to spend the same money on a few prestige hospitals which could only ever be used by an urban elite . |
13 | Will you agree that we do that , rather than have the same thing coming up time after time . |
14 | Hence a depressed person may well remember their childhood as considerably less happy than they would have done if asked the same questions before the onset of their current depressive symptoms . |
15 | He argued however that women would actually be more expensive than men if paid the same wages . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 " . |
19 | In our example , estimating the average height of adult males in the British population , would require a sampling fraction of about 1/4,000 , whereas to estimate the same parameter in a population of 200 , a sampling fraction of ¼ , or a sample size of 50 , would be necessary . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | While tapping the same market , the chains approach the business customer in different ways . |
23 | BSL processing involves sequential and spatial codes , uses direct visual representation for its syntax while displaying the same complexity of meaning as English . |
24 | As your fitness improves you will find that your heart rate decreases while performing the same level of exercise . |
25 | We want to stay at the top level while doing the same things we did 40 years ago . |
26 | A certain amount of modification is desirable , which , while retaining the same amount of power and thrust , makes the movement fluid , not static . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Ironically , two great predecessors , Mallory and Irvine , died whilst attempting the same route in 1924 . |