Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [v-ing] the same " in BNC.

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1 Yes in theory we should be doing the same thing
2 Stewart from Tamworth says I 'm on the dole and have to pay maintenance , Prince Charles should be doing the same .
3 Now I think it 's only fair and right that the conservatives are doing as er , should be doing the same .
4 Lindsey fought off the realisation that she should be doing the same , a tiny spark of rebellion taking her , instead of to her cabin , to the gallery of luxurious and well-stocked shops and boutiques , carrying everything from souvenirs and jewellery , famous brands of perfume and toiletries to designer shoes and clothes .
5 ‘ It is thoroughly and unutterably embarrassing that a stalker , a ghillie or a farmworker should be paying the same tax as me .
6 He 'll be getting the same train .
7 I take it you 'll be needing the same yourself ? ’
8 Well , that 's certainly true , but Bridgemere is absorbing the extra cost itself so you 'll be paying the same for the nursery 's coir-grown plants as you would for peat-raised plants .
9 Yes , and I 've broken it up into parts , I 'll be doing the same with Bernard and Tony , incidentally .
10 If Steve 's going to have electric aerial he 'll be doing the same thing .
11 ‘ If you was her you 'd be getting the same treatment .
12 ‘ At the moment , there 's insufficient evidence to arrest anyone , ’ said Harris quietly , ‘ and if I thought you were keen on any of the other men in this case , I 'd be saying the same thing about them . ’
13 The Hong Kong government fears the market may be thinking the same way : in late April it announced legislation to formalise the power of local banks to pay negative interest rates on Hong Kong dollar deposits ( just as Swiss banks did at one time when the Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money into the Swiss franc ) .
14 Well , it may be simulating the same sport , but it 's a totally different sort of game .
15 ‘ I have a feeling , ’ he said at last , ‘ that Mahmoud may be receiving the same sort of advice . ’
16 Both scientist and engineer , biologist and doctor , chemist and agriculturist may be handling the same kind of data , but where the first intervenes in the world in order to understand it , the second has to understand the world in order to intervene in it .
17 They may be doing the same job as older people , but there are questions about whether you might not make more jobs for young people if you paid them seventy-five per cent , two-thirds of , of the going minimum wage .
18 After the hearing in Yorkshire yesterday he said would be lodging the same application for a murder charge summons at the county court in the Tony Bland 's home town .
19 At the Prague embassy on Saturday night , cheers greeted the news that the refugees would be leaving the same night as Mr Genscher .
20 And anyway , if I monitored two babies , I would be creating the same environment for both of them , would n't I ?
21 In the last resort his conduct is in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ , because he would be acting the same if he were capable of full awareness both of the goal of saving life and of the temporary anguish he is inflicting , but being merely human he would lose sight of the goal if he let his mind dwell on the pain .
22 Erm , if er , if they had been , erm , all along they would be telling the same story as , if they really could do their in intellectualizing properly
23 Not all of them would be learning the same thing , parrot-fashion , up and down the country .
24 And five hundred yards to the east , across the barren expanse of heath and moor , and the tiny stream they called the Goldbach , the men of the allied army would be doing the same .
25 You knew that the others would be doing the same .
26 I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving .
27 I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time .
28 We have already been in touch with two GP practices in Middlesbrough to see how much of the medical history we can pick up , and shall be doing the same in Sunderland .
29 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 .
30 It 's got to be the plum — and I am sure Hereford will be thinking the same way too . ’
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