Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Even if the vendor is selling the whole of his trade , it seems from Inland Revenue Statement of Practice 8/81 that he can invest the proceeds of sale in acquiring new qualifying assets , as part of a new trade , and this will count as the same trade for roll-over relief purposes , so that his gain on the sale of the assets of the old trade is deferred .
2 We should strive for the same sense of adventure .
3 To some extent the Dutch and the New Zealanders , with their lamb , must fall into the same category .
4 I 'm determined that Constance wo n't fall into the same trap . ’
5 I trust that I will not fall into the same trap !
6 But with understanding had come a growing determination that she would never fall into the same trap — would never allow herself to be ruled by a foolish , hoping heart .
7 A hill or valley can often act in the same way as an enormous sail and bend the wind over a large area .
8 But the steroids in the Pill are of a different sort — they are the female sex hormones ( or closely related chemicals ) and they do not act in the same way as corticosteroids .
9 He did not feel that he needed to apologize , and said that if similar circumstances arose he would act in the same way .
10 It was inevitable that both would act in the same interests , and command support against putative extravagance and recklessness .
11 Where the employee is working on the employer 's premises , the employer must act in the same manner as a reasonably prudent employer .
12 There was no doubt that Hari would buy from the same supplier as the Grenfells and what if Hari had an outstanding bill ?
13 ‘ Because everybody goes and jumps in the river is no reason why we have to go and jump in the same river . ’
14 The apparent ritualistic posing , although strongly performed and easy to understand , did not appeal in the same way as his Song of the Earth .
15 Starving people have frequently refused to eat food that is foreign to them , and horses will behave in the same way .
16 At the moment it seems our American friends had the right of it , but we are still working with the wild-caught fish and quite often these do not behave in the same way as tank-raised fish do .
17 It does not follow that if subjects are induced to behave in a certain way within the idealized limits of experimental control , they will behave in the same way when these limits are relaxed .
18 With most sentences , particularly non-observational sentences , no clear answer will emerge because the natives will not all behave in the same way in the same conditions .
19 Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do !
20 Guy ( 1980 ) has concluded from his study of final stop deletion that the individual follows the group norm very closely ; but since we know that scores for different linguistic variables are not distributed within or between groups in a comparable way , we can not conclude that all variables will behave in the same way as the syllable-final alveolar stop .
21 Do they behave in the same way syntactically , or , to put it more accurately , do topics , like themes , have no syntax ?
22 Some program upgrades do truly behave in the same way as their predecessors but this is the exception rather than the rule !
23 On a smaller scale , the electrical forces that cause the electrons to orbit round the nucleus in an atom would behave in the same way as gravitational forces .
24 We have noted that , given a certain type of search space , the A* algorithm may behave in the same way as breadth-first search , since the latter is a special case of the former .
25 While it may not fall within the same category as Dances with Wolves as an illustration of a time and people grossly misrepresented , it is a period piece of some strength and charm which just falls short of the epithet epic .
26 A magazine with the vision to run these two very different pieces in the same issue , in the knowledge that they could both appeal to the same reader , deserves applause .
27 She argues that the nature of the Tests is now so different that we can not object on the same grounds as each objection has been met .
28 The seminar will not only set the tone for the CentCom meetings , but will also form part of a worldwide series of activities leading up to WACC 's Second World Communication Congress in 1995 , which will focus on the same theme .
29 The seminar theme was chosen in preparation for WACC 's second international communication congress in 1995 , which will focus on the same topic .
30 The proportion responding that they thought they could trust the United Sates " a great deal " was 62% ( up from 45% in 1975 ) , a figure not matched by any other country : the closest was Norway , which 37% thought they could trust to the same extent .
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