Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] share the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they share the same chemical composition and crystal form , emerald is by far the more valuable . |
| 2 | The difference was , of course , that they shared the same land mass , and were directly connected to each other by transcontinental tracks . |
| 3 | Kirsten proved a fine role model for the impressionable Rhodes throughout the tour , and while on the surface the pair could n't be more contrasting in appearance or temperament , there is no doubting that they shared the same total commitment to their game and country . |
| 4 | He was interested to find that they shared the same distrust , perhaps the same revulsion . |
| 5 | Howard , you and I share the same sense of humour . ’ |
| 6 | Dr Glasser argues that unconditional acceptance is an illusion simply because we have to interact with other people who are just like ourselves and who share the same primary needs . |
| 7 | I picked him as my friend because he was a quiet , kind boy and we shared the same interest . |
| 8 | Hawks , pigeons and I share an astonishingly similar set of components and mechanisms and we share the same world . |
| 9 | So am I and we share the same gift of glimpsing the future . ’ |
| 10 | We speak variant patois of Shakespeare and Norman Mailer , our institutions spring from the same instincts and traditions , and we share the same heritage of law and custom , philosophy and pragmatic Weltanschauung … starting from similar premises in the same intellectual tradition , we recognize common allusions , share many common prejudices , and can commune on a basis of confidence . |
| 11 | He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night . |
| 12 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 13 | and they shared the same manager . |
| 14 | A married couple who are sexually compatible ought to score 3 out of 4 , and if they share the same hobbies , it 's a jackpot . |
| 15 | It is similar in type to the Simmental , though more elegantly built and the coat colour bright red rather than yellowish tan , and it shares the same origins in the old Bernese brought in by Mennonites during the eighteenth century ( see Alpine section ) . |
| 16 | This was achieved by examining brooches which are pairs , those not paired but which are very similar and those which are of a different design but which share the same characteristics . |
| 17 | They may disagree with each other profoundly , and compete to outdo each other relentlessly , but they share the same notion of the contest and adhere , more or less , to the same rules . |
| 18 | He was not as clever as his half-brother , Sally-Anne 's father , but he shared the same intensely practical outlook on life . |
| 19 | Not only does it draw from what Pollitt ( 1986a , p. 159 ) describes as the ‘ belief-system of the incoming Conservative government of 1979 ’ — the crusade against bureaucratic waste , belief in the superiority of private sector managerial techniques and drive towards increased value for money — but it shares the same ideological roots as privatization and contracting out . |
| 20 | The Labour Party and the trade union movement are bonded together because we share the same objectives . |
| 21 | I know , because we share the same birthday ’ . ’ |
| 22 | Our own genes cooperate with one another , not because they are our own but because they share the same outlet — sperm or egg — into the future . |
| 23 | Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) . |
| 24 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |