Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The satiety sensation was recorded after the meal and every hour for six hours using the same kind of visual analogue scale with ‘ empty stomach ’ =0 and ‘ full ’ =100 .
2 Depending on technical arguments , the conference will decide on a spacing for satellites using the same frequency that could be anywhere between 4° and 10° .
3 Can I reiterate what he he actually said in a meeting with Calum er Carole Degucht er last year er he said I do y the honourable , my honourable friend said I do not see that uniformity means adopting a system of proportional representation and I 've yet to see a good case as to the merits of different states adopting the same procedure .
4 The drug distamycin-A is known to bind in the minor groove of d(A-T) rich sequences using the same hydrogen bond acceptor sites ( O -2 and N -3 ) as water , although other stabilising effects including electrostatic and van der Waals interactions are also important ( 18 ) .
5 Mr McGiffert stated that he was concerned that the large volume of traffic caused by the new golf course would wreak havoc , with farm machinery and animals using the same road .
6 An entertaining example of animals solving the same problem as the swimming rats , but with land and water reversed , is the ability of a tide-pool fish , the goby , to jump from one pool to another without landing on the rock between .
7 They were crowded together in a corner , their tails pointing the same way .
8 THORN HOUSE ( North facing ) is a good example of a small ‘ long house ’ , with man an animals sharing the same roof .
9 An expert witness is appointed by a party to assist in putting that party 's case to a tribunal of either judge(s) or arbitrator(s) , with other parties having the same right .
10 They seem unskilled in the simple acts that console women when they are distressed — like being held gently for as long as they need to be held , making murmuring noises rather than using words ( or even worse , forming sentences ) , wiping tears away and blowing noses … in other words giving the same comfort which you would give to a child .
11 Variations of units having the same name meant that sometimes there was easy money to be made , buying big chauldrons and selling small ones ; but usually this was only a minor nuisance , entailing conversion tables and making international communication a little more difficult .
12 Found assorted English , Irish , American , German and French walkers having the same problem so did n't feel so bad .
13 Ambiguity in written English may arise from different words having the same spelling ( homonyms ) or the same word having a number of meanings .
14 What is said above about making consistent lists is even more important in a tonal language where the sound(s) to check should ideally be in words having the same tone pattern .
15 Zue ( 1985 ) defines a collection of words having the same representation as an equivalence class .
16 Held , dismissing the action , that a release by accord and satisfaction of one covenantor operated as a release of all other covenantors undertaking the same obligation ; that the landlord 's acceptance of the immediate surrender of the lease and the goods listed in satisfaction for releasing M. from all his liabilities under the lease was clearly a release by accord and satisfaction ; that there were no words of reservation or circumstances rebutting that construction ; and that the landlord had therefore released not merely M. but also the defendant company , as an intermediate assignee who had undertaken the same obligation ( post , pp. 483B–H , 484C ) .
17 In short , does the release by accord and satisfaction of one covenantor release other covenantors undertaking the same obligation ?
18 As in Musgrave 's theory of the ‘ public household ’ , one can consider the division of functions between different government agencies , and the operation of these agencies as units playing the same role as firms do in the market .
19 Any of your readers who caught Bill West in conversation with Melvyn Bragg and Nigella Lawson on ‘ Start the Week ’ , or who read Norman Stone 's review of his book in the Times , would have to assume there were two competing books bearing the same imprimatur — one by an articulate and well-informed author , the other by an incoherent eccentric .
20 But the idea of a continuum of language-games employing the same word , whose contexts recall more or less distantly the analogous human original , seems more adequately to capture the spirit of what we need to say in such circumstances .
21 It would be against our interests to adopt a more protectionist and interventionist policy in aerospace , because it could lead to other countries adopting the same approach .
22 Other definitions propose that it is derived from the O.E. Heall , meaning Hall Manor or Heallgemot , the court of the Lord of the Manor , or as in Heallingas , Comrades sharing the same hall .
23 ‘ We 're promoting real European unity , ’ Jim continues , ‘ not just a lot of countries having the same currency . ’
24 The event , sponsored by Sight Savers , Marshall Amplification and Guitarist , aims to beat the world record for the biggest number of guitarists playing the same song non-stop for one hour .
25 I have seen many other companies working the same sort of processes , and I have yet to find one which seems to have the final solution .
26 Why should LA relax constraints on that particular word when there are other hypotheses covering the same region ? ( i.e. up to eight a ) .
27 Once you have lists where you are confident that you are hearing the tone correctly , these can then be used as drills following the same procedure as before , i.e. listening and mimicking down and across the lists : It is by no means always possible to find a high frame preceding the place of substitution .
28 Well , I wo n't have any of my sons going the same way . ’
29 Despite abandoning a planned £34m ( $66m ) European airline venture with Belgium 's carrier , Sabena , and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines , British Airways still wants an alliance with the troubled Sabena , but faces competition from other airlines pursuing the same goal .
30 These kinds of videoconference systems permit conferencing only between stations using the same equipment .
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