Example sentences of "[noun] operate [prep] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Under these conditions it is necessary to organise all employers operating within the same market to preclude the possibility of a wage increase secured at one firm adversely affecting its competitive position , and therefore employment .
2 In the worst possible case , with all errors operating in the same direction and all being at plus or minus two standard errors ( a most unlikely occurrence and an overstatement of the true joint confidence intervals ) , the estimated expenditure needs might range from £108 to £509 for every child aged 5–17 .
3 But this notion — that one set of activities is serious and therefore by implication another set must be non-serious — is a naive view , for it presupposes that first and second order experiences operate within the same frame and are therefore amenable to comparison .
4 Accountability operates in the same domain as trust .
5 Whether divorce operates in the same way as widowhood in this regard is really a matter of speculation at the present time .
6 Wave-producing species shift their frequencies slightly to avoid confusion with nearby fish operating on the same frequency .
7 Dhondt 's argument seems to fit Flanders best : but the Count Baldwin ( died 879 ) who held some counties in that region in the latter part of Charles 's reign is never called " Count of Flanders " in any ninth-century text ; the hallmarks of entrenched territorial power ( systematic fortifications ; minting of coins ) are not to be found during his lifetime , but rather in that of his son ; Baldwin had no monopoly on power in Flanders , for other magnates operated in the same region ; finally , no hereditary transmission of the " principality " can be demonstrated here during Charles 's reign but only , again , after Charles 's death .
8 The first reason why the market could no longer be perceived as limiting economic power was that the structure of the market ceased to correspond even loosely with the model of perfect competition which required numerous firms operating in the same industry so that no firm was capable of affecting the price of its product by varying the level of the output of that product .
9 When David Kay , Roy Goddard and Fred Rogers established their business in 1970 , they were one of the first British firms to operate in the same way as Spencer Stuart , Heidrick and Struggles and Egon Zehnder .
10 Would there be two bodies operating in the same field ?
11 Running as a Windows app , WinFax Pro operates in the same way as all other Windows fax packages .
12 The sense of smell operates in the same way in all mammals , including us .
13 There is in any case no guarantee that bureaus operating in the same policy area will compete .
14 The dip tank operates in the same way as a break tank in fluid circuit .
15 A new system was needed which would avoid these contradictions and which so unified existing rights in land as to ‘ enable shifts of value to operate within the same ownership ’ .
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