Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [v-ing] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | We swallowed hard , stiffened our upper lip , and decided to ‘ see it through ’ by shutting our eyes and applying the same old formula regardless — a constitution , a mace , a copy of Erskine May , a Speaker 's chair and national independence . |
| 2 | With him in the dock and receiving the same sentences was his business partner , Benedict Marsh , also 28 . |
| 3 | ( b ) Separate practice The decision must be taken as to whether the business of a new office is to be integrated with that of the main office or whether it is to be run ( or the extent to which it is to be run ) as a separate , self-financing enterprise or even a separate partnership but using the same firm-name . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This reflects a common tendency in India to think of rigorous imprisonment and vocational work as meaning the same thing : little distinction is made between punishment and rehabilitation in the prison context . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ If Ally McCoist , Ian Durrant and Paul McStay had been born bambinos instead of bairns , they would all now be in the Italian first division and commanding the same prices . |
| 8 | D.& C. Builders v. Rees ( below , p. 267 ) decides that there is no material distinction between giving a small sum in cash and giving the same amount by a negotiable instrument . |
| 9 | First , it treats all members of a social group as having the same set of possible actions . |
| 10 | In terms of the role-mapping model of plural reference , we would suppose that the use of and imposes a constraint which specifies the two individuals as playing the same grammatical role . |
| 11 | Lévi-Strauss saw structuralism as playing the same role for the social sciences as nuclear physics had for the physical sciences . |
| 12 | ‘ I am tired of poling the river , telling the same stories and hearing the same ones in return . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | While Otley and Nigel squared up to each other Elinor emptied the contents of the envelope onto the table : family snaps , letters , postcards belonging to the Chatwins , the coat of arms well in evidence and having the same circlet of tiny flowers as the monogram on Tumbleweed 's handkerchief . |
| 15 | It is worth looking at short- and medium-term goals for staff development and asking the same questions . |
| 16 | The £5.5 million star endured a heart-stopping few minutes against Genoa , crashing to the ground after a tackle and clutching the same knee in which he ruptured ligaments 16 months ago . |
| 17 | Her slovenliness was a state of mind , the exteriorisation of her despair , and he saw all her faults as having the same root : bad company , bad education , bad conditions . |
| 18 | The judgment for the plaintiff was upheld by the House of Lords , but Lord Cairns L.C. rested his decision on the ground that the defendant had made a ‘ non-natural use ’ of his land , though he regarded the judgment of Blackburn J. as reaching the same result and said he entirely concurred in it . |
| 19 | Aurobindo sees all things as having the same principal of life at different levels , but in all of them is the potentiality and inevitability to reach higher and higher levels . |
| 20 | Running around in circles and seeing the same old thing defeats half the purpose . |
| 21 | Here we have operating in the same geographical area , in the same economic environment and manufacturing the same product , on the one hand enterprises organised as industrial co-operatives and on the other as conventional firms . |
| 22 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 23 | They they may draw the same compound but making the same structural formula , but drawn slightly differently ! |
| 24 | We want to stay at the top level while doing the same things we did 40 years ago . |
| 25 | After all , paying for something that does not work is presumably more likely to produce frustration than receiving the same ineffective care ‘ free ’ . |
| 26 | Had you been living in Oxford and asking the same question I think well then it 's erm you know , it 's obviously a very valid question . |
| 27 | refusing the help of family members and others who prepare " special " meals but having the same meals at the same time and in the same place as everyone else . |
| 28 | BSL processing involves sequential and spatial codes , uses direct visual representation for its syntax while displaying the same complexity of meaning as English . |
| 29 | Of course we 've got the training and testing the same as in normal networks . |
| 30 | During the Reagan presidency , the Guardian kept blaming his errors on age , and perforce , there I was again with another angry letter — ‘ Son of Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — pointing out that , like it or not , Ronald Reagan had always been like that , making the same kind of statement and endorsing the same brand of policies . |