Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When I see these Islands in sight of each other , & possessed of but a scanty stock of animals , tenanted by these birds , but slightly differing in structure & filling the same place in Nature , I must suspect they are only varieties . |
2 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
3 | This common bond can be based on living in the same area , or working in the same factory , or attending the same church , or being members of the same club . |
4 | Chambers and Trudgill ( 1980 : 90 ) note that it is ‘ not possible to set up done as any kind of linguistic variable , since it is not a form which is involved in alternation with other forms that could be considered to be ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ ' . |
5 | Particularly , the notion of ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ to which Weiner and Labov obliquely refer ( see above ) is much less straightforward than it seems . |
6 | Because syntax is embedded in discourse , entirely different forms might have similar functions ( i.e. be used as equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ) ; for this reason it is sometimes difficult to specify a principled way of knowing where to stop counting particular forms as variants of a variable . |
7 | This may be said to constitute evidence that the speaker views [ SVQ ] and [ QSV ] as ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ . |
8 | or living next door , or learning the same trade ? |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Unfortunately such empire-builders seem to have overlooked the fact that selling the same names and images a thousand different ways also hands unprecedented power to film and pop stars , whose soaring demands have sent movie and recording costs spiralling . |
11 | By the time the children have grown up , the marital relationship can be very empty , often extending little further than sharing the same house . |
12 | ‘ I think other things are more important than sharing the same profession . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | They say giving someone a patch is far cheaper than treating the same person for heart disease or lung cancer . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Jack Delano was never an invisible photographer — his subjects were always aware that they were being photographed — in fact he had acquired so many friends during the early stages of the project in the 1940s that approaching the same people in the 1980s was a mere formality . |
17 | After about eight issues he picked up a copy and noticed that Bowart-using the same technique he had used to appoint Miles London correspondent — had appointed him , and William Randolph Hearst as editors . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | It may be possible to combine these functions by re-editing material for the sell-through market and using the same company , thus making the whole exercise more cost-effective . |
20 | Begin with the questions that are obvious to you and using the same method move on to devise questions which will tell you more complex information about the candidate . |
21 | All historical financial information provided in the Memorandum has been prepared from and using the same accounting policies as the financial records of the Group . |
22 | Dobry 's detailed recommendations ( which totalled 161 ) were aimed in his words , at giving greater freedom to harmless development but also at guarding against harmful development by retaining the current scope of planning control ; at separating from the main stream of applications all those which might cause harm , and disposing of ‘ main stream applications ’ by rapid and routine procedures ; and applying the same approach to appeals . |
23 | ‘ He does n't do a damn thing for the good of mankind , but makes one hell of a fat living by buying cheap from one worker and selling the same thing dear to another worker . |
24 | Along with Brown ( 48 ) , of Bunbeg Park , and facing the same charge are Paul McCullough ( 48 ) , of Glenalina Road , and Stephen Canning ( 21 ) , of Doon Road . |
25 | One quick piece of programming later and a game that was remarkably similar to the original film , and sharing the same name , hit the shelves . |
26 | We 're staying at the same hotel and sharing the same table , you see . |
27 | Sometimes , in fact , she had felt she was in danger of neglecting the rest of her pupils for though her voice continued to drone on , snapping out an instruction here , a correction there , she was in reality watching Paula out of the corner of her eye , and experiencing the same excitement of discovery that she had felt on the day when Paula had first walked into her office . |
28 | They 've been touring and doing the same thing for forty , fifty years and nothing has changed for them , and so I do n't think it 's a real resurgence in the US , but it 's great to see it happening over here . ’ |
29 | 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 . |
30 | It is worth looking at short- and medium-term goals for staff development and asking the same questions . |