Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 Two-syllable simple adjectives are stressed according to the same rule , giving :
2 Skinner ( 1948 ) states that " verbal behaviour is emitted behaviour which is reinforced by a listener and develops according to the same principles as other operant behaviour .
3 At the same time , the video head drum , which rotates 1500 times a minute , stops dead and starts spinning at the same speed in the opposite direction .
4 Witnesses were examined according to the same procedure as at police court trials .
5 He wanted his prose to be objective , scientific , devoid of personal presence , devoid of opinions ; so he decided that poetry ought to be written according to the same principles .
6 I have already mentioned Family Affair , which features specific language items selected according to the same functional and structural syllabus as the language course Building Strategies .
7 While Kittay 's theory has the advantage that it allows metaphor to be seen as operating according to the same basic principles regardless of the size of the discursive unit in question , Brooke-Rose 's own examination of the mechanisms of the verb metaphor suggest a view that minimizes dependence on an implicit ‘ proper ’ term outside the text and emphasizes the metaphoric interactions between the terms themselves .
8 ‘ We need to evaluate screening with the same rigour we use to examine a new drug ’
9 When a big shoal is feeding dozens of bream can be seen rolling at the same time , all facing the same way .
10 Then an appendix , a disc list , gives every known issue and reissue according to the same numbering , a sensible practice .
11 In this way , all her eggs begin developing at the same time .
12 This may or may not entail living in the same house .
13 Developing and mounting were performed according to the same protocol as for the PAP procedure .
14 3 When it is time for interrogation , vary your approach — do n't always begin questioning from the same point in the classroom ; do n't always start with the same students but criss-cross about the classroom in a pattern that can not be identified by the students .
15 It 's also very rare that you finish standing on the same position from which you made the cast .
16 Speaker B keeps returning to the same point , his first statement , dealing with it in a variety of ways , and we get three different and slightly conflicting evaluations of his action in discussing sex openly with his pupils ( it 's daring , it 's unsystematic , it 's something anyway ) .
17 It seemed louder , more raucous than usual , and she sighed at the prospect of another evening spent listening to the same arguments and bitter reproaches .
18 Now it 's got the three and we 're batting for each other , you know playing on the same side .
19 Later four men , believed to be from the Ballymena area , were arrested returning from the same event .
20 The information made visible by the use of such database facilities is restricted according to the same security rules imposed by LIFESPAN .
21 Reappraisal of Planning Permission — all existing permissions should be reassessed according to the same criteria as above , and authorities would have the power to rescind or modify them .
22 ‘ I told you to keep going in the same direction .
23 If there is just one curve at the top of the incline and the leading and trailing wheels thus continue travelling on the same rail tracks , as the tank comes up over the curve it will tilt forward .
24 ( However , P-E sees a special need for its application in these days of frequently changing corporate cultures and structures : for example , a successful predator might well want to stir up the management of a recent acquisition , and encourage its executives to start thinking along the same lines as their new bosses ) .
25 The overweight people in this experiment , however , kept eating at the same fast pace throughout the meal .
26 Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route .
27 In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence .
28 However , if all members of a group went swimming at the same time and left valuables unattended , that would be an unnecessary risk where no real precautions had been taken and would be a breach of the duty of care .
29 cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time .
30 Young Victor , a Romantic from birth , was excited when the family was given free seats for the theatre for every night of its stay , less excited when he found out that the programme never changed , so that it meant sitting through the same melodrama every night for a month .
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