Example sentences of "be [verb] about the same " in BNC.
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1 | Another valve might help ; after all , the Marshall has a couple and the Carvin is mob-handed with a total of nine — and I 'll say it again , we 're talking about the same price range here . |
2 | If we 're talking about the same phone call , the reason it was a woman who spoke to you was that we were both travelling in my car at the time — and I was driving . |
3 | I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing . |
4 | If we 're talking about the same one alright , I 've got her address in Felixstowe . |
5 | People are paying about the same this year as they did in 1991 , according to industry figures . |
6 | We bring many new titles into our library every month , so you wo n't be reading about the same programs every time you pick up your copy of Practical PC . |
7 | We bring many new titles into our library every month , so you wo n't be reading about the same programs every time you pick up your copy of Practical PC . |
8 | ‘ But then I feel sure we can not be talking about the same woman , Mr McKillop . |
9 | Nurses should therefore discover from patients what meaning these words have for them , so that they can be sure that they and the patients are talking about the same conditions . |
10 | In the heat of debate , when one side may accuse the other of not knowing what they are talking about , both sides will still assume they are talking about the same thing . |
11 | There is one proviso to this : make sure that both you and the client are talking about the same thing . |
12 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
13 | The stern Quaker historian of Liskeard , Allen , wrote in the 1850's that ‘ all these idle , absurd practices were abandoned about the same time , early in the present century ’ . |
14 | If the scanners were to be believed , two people were talking about the same matters in similar terms night after night . |
15 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
16 | Output thereafter went up so that the women were earning about the same as before the job was changed . |
17 | In syllable timing each syllable is given about the same amount of time and therefore seems to be more distinctly pronounced than in a stress timed language . |
18 | It was much more elaborate than the first of the famous series of astronomical clocks in Strasbourg Cathedral that was installed about the same time , 1350 . |
19 | A similar discovery was made about the same time by the Russian scientist Lev Davidovich Landau . |
20 | New investment per employed worker in US manufacturing in 1955 was running at about 1.6 times the European level , and nearly five times that of Japan ; by 1970 US manufacturing was investing about the same per worker as European industry and one-third less than Japanese . |