Example sentences of "be [v-ing] 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 | If the scanners were to be believed , two people were talking about the same matters in similar terms night after night . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Output thereafter went up so that the women were earning about the same as before the job was changed . |
| 16 | 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 . |