Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [v-ing] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternative methods of achieving the same objective should be sought and the problem should not be allowed to rest until a satisfactory solution is found . |
| 2 | Since users ' ability to appropriate most of the benefits of innovations is likely to be particularly evident in industries where spillovers or positive pecuniary externalities inhibit independent R&D by suppliers , it follows that co-operative R&D ventures amongst suppliers and user-led innovation programmes may be alternative methods of reaching the same goal . |
| 3 | The second position was that ( as in the Welsh school cited above ) simply changing the name and use of buildings altered very little : a common curriculum was what mattered and all pupils should be given the same opportunities of learning the same subjects . |
| 4 | The costs of producing a particular product in a past period will be very useful information in predicting the costs of producing the same product in the future . |
| 5 | since the benefits can not be valued , it is still useful to compare the costs of providing the same benefit in different ways . |
| 6 | Only the sailing types appreciated the problems of keeping the same bit of distant coast line ahead on the same point of sailing and in the same position relative to the other boats . |
| 7 | Social workers suspected their older siblings of doing the same . |
| 8 | So do Humpbacks have ways of expressing the same request for the repetition of a pleasurable sonic experience ? |
| 9 | Many ways of expressing the same thought |
| 10 | Unlike [ 9 ] , these sentences do not treat the two events of shutting and clicking as separate things : in this respect , as in other respects , [ 12 ] and [ 13 ] are just different ways of expressing the same sense as [ 3 ] . |
| 11 | Each of these immunities is of great importance , but the fact that they are all important and that they are all concerned with the protection of citizens against the abuse of powers by those investigating crimes makes it easy to assume that they are all different ways of expressing the same principle , whereas in fact they are not . |
| 12 | ‘ Each of these immunities is of great importance , but the fact that they are all important and that they are all concerned with the protection of citizens against the abuse of powers by those investigating crimes makes it easy to assume that they are all different ways of expressing the same principle , whereas in fact they are not . |
| 13 | Different financial incentives change the nature of the educational experience and are not merely alternative ways of financing the same service . |
| 14 | There are many ways of seeing the same picture and what follows is offered as a useful framework rather than any kind of definitive blueprint . |
| 15 | Various thoughts on a particular problem therefore gave rise to a variety of images , which might appear to contradict each other , but which either simply revealed the complexity of the problem or displayed several ways of stating the same answer . |
| 16 | When speakers are looking for different ways of accomplishing the same goal ( in Coveney 's example , successfully requesting information ) they are not limited to the various possibilities in the linguistic system for constructing formal interrogatives . |
| 17 | The result is , of course , to be expected , since T and Π-sections are different ways of breaking the same network into repeated sections . |
| 18 | ‘ Managers and employers tend to see [ external ] short courses and internal training as different but allied ways of meeting the same basic needs . |
| 19 | To say that [ 18a ] and [ 18b ] are simply alternative ways of communicating the same message might be taken to suggest that the decision whether to make the assumption about house-warming parties explicit conveys nothing at all . |
| 20 | Formulations are varied because there are three ways of achieving the same capability with combinations and permutations . |
| 21 | There are other ways of achieving the same result but none , I suggest , as effective as this method . |
| 22 | More subtle and effective , but much more involved , ways of achieving the same end have been devised . |
| 23 | The investigator 's recommendations for the prevention of similar accidents in the future are undoubtedly very important but others in authority , well versed in all the issues involved , may consider different ways of achieving the same end . |
| 24 | They seemed like two equivalent ways of saying the same thing , and which form of words you chose seemed a matter of taste . |
| 25 | To back up the intuitive sense that there are " different ways of saying the same thing " , Ohmann ( in the article quoted ) enlists the authority of linguistics . |
| 26 | Let us think again about what is good in the dualist position : it captures the insight that two pieces of language can be seen as alternative ways of saying the same thing : that is , that there can be STYLISTIC VARIANTS with different STYLISTIC VALUES . |
| 27 | We could say simply — John ate fish and chips but there are many other ways of saying the same thing : |
| 28 | But in her earlier study where she had viewed the alternants as being ‘ equivalent ways of saying the same thing ’ she did not attempt to ‘ account for the interplay between the differences in modal meaning and the social conditioning in the use of these forms ’ ( Lavandera 1982 : 90 — her translation ) . |
| 29 | The patterns could be interpreted in different ways ; one possibility is to argue that the correlation with extra-linguistic variables constitutes evidence that the forms are simply different ways of saying the same thing , that differences in modal meaning which do not affect truth-conditions are merely stylistic and so may be ignored . |
| 30 | The dualist holds that there can be different ways of conveying the same content . |