Example sentences of "[v-ing] the same [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japanese plans to build an international airport on the Shiraho reef have been abandoned — in favour of building the same airport on the next reef along . |
| 2 | Even using the same terms on more than one occasion with the same customer would seem not to amount of itself to trading on standard terms . |
| 3 | If you have an odd number of needles , you end up knitting the same needles on every row , so that after a few rows the carriage jams . |
| 4 | He began hesitantly , to be certain he was not boring his acquaintance , but seeing the same expression on the Colonel 's face as had been there before , he flew on like one of his mighty clippers before the wind . |
| 5 | For the Police , the frustration is often seeing the same faces on the streets . |
| 6 | It commits the industry to applying the same ban on billboard advertising overlooking playgrounds as already applies to billboard advertising close to schools . |
| 7 | Organic farmers build up natural soil fertility by crop rotation — not growing the same crop on any land two years running — and by using farmyard manure and natural composts . |
| 8 | Ralph Lauren 's trademark steed certainly is n't speaking the same language on a bootleg shirt here on a Brooklyn market stall as it is on Manhatten 's Upper East Side . |
| 9 | For now if you , as a supplier , observe a rise in the price of the good on your island of 10 per cent you can not be certain whether all other markets are experiencing the same rise on average . |
| 10 | Already it is having the same effect on Britain . |
| 11 | Successsive governments remained persuaded that an independent deterrent provided much more influence and security than could be obtained by spending the same money on extra conventional forces . |
| 12 | Holding a length of silk in its beak , it then pierces a hole in the leaf and pushes the silk through it , tying a little knot in the end to prevent the thread from slipping back through the hole and then doing the same thing on the other side so that the two leaf surfaces are secured to one another . |
| 13 | At moments of great national importance perhaps three-quarters of the population will be watching the same event on screen ; indeed , internationally exciting events such as a lunar landing or the funeral of an assassinated president get world-wide instantaneous coverage . |
| 14 | Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children . |
| 15 | Let's face it — with current monitor technology , the chances of burning an image into the screen phosphors by leaving the same picture on display for a while are very remote . |
| 16 | Trying to persuade a German owner of one to part with it is rather like trying the same exercise on a Frenchman with an E-model Jodel D140 Mousquetaire . |
| 17 | As the company grew , smaller clone-makers , also building to IBM 's software standard , started trying the same tactics on Compaq itself . |
| 18 | Nottingham ( tel : 0602 481444 ) is offering the same return on its Anniversary Bond for investments of £5,000 or more but there are penalties on withdrawal within 12 months — 90 days ' loss of interest . |
| 19 | By superimposing the same scale on the two axes of the matrix , the product can then be positioned , represented by a circle of which the area is proportional to the forecast market size , possibly with another inside it representing the estimated market share . |