Example sentences of "[noun] as [v-ing] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | First , it treats all members of a social group as having the same set of possible actions . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Lévi-Strauss saw structuralism as playing the same role for the social sciences as nuclear physics had for the physical sciences . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The correspondence problem is to identify specific portions of the changing image as representing the same object at different times . |
| 10 | Someone from industry might be seen by employers as speaking the same language as they do themselves . |