Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] the same " in BNC.
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1 | Although many local authorities in their strategy documents state that they aim first at rehabilitation , I remain unconvinced that they are devoting the same resources in terms of skilled social workers with small caseloads and adequate financial support to natural families , as they do to finding and supporting new families . |
2 | When people talk together about marriage they often assume they are discussing the same thing . |
3 | Only a little thought will show what a nonsense this is , for , as we have just seen , no two individuals manifest their illnesses in exactly the same way even if they are given the same disease label . |
4 | When Montaigne and Bacon stress the determining power of social custom they are developing the same idea of an order prior to and determining of consciousness , though now of course with the crucial difference that it is a non-teleological order , historical rather than divine , material rather than metaphysical . |
5 | Although spiders and insects hear the world in a very different way from us , they are sampling the same sounds carried through the air . |
6 | We do not object to women working the keyboards , so long as they are paid the same wages as men . |
7 | They are paid the same as people who can teach brilliantly . |
8 | If he can look that prospect squarely in the eye and both parties cut out the cheap jibes , they will see that they are talking the same language . |
9 | This was repulsed , though Than Tun claimed that they desired unity which was the wish of the masses : ‘ The Rightists of the AFPFL submitted to the Imperialists in the Nu — Attlee Treaty , now also they are doing the same in discarding the Communist Party . ’ |
10 | ‘ Well , ’ she said after a moment 's pause , ‘ of course they are doing the same job up to a point and that 's never an easy pattern of work . |
11 | One believes they are making the same mistakes as the oil companies made — ‘ giving away the product in the hope of buying customers ’ . |
12 | They 're taking the same men on . |
13 | The implication has been all along that they 're using the same United States manufacturing source but in fact there are one or two discrepancies here , erm , because the value is so high , I 'm actually sort of going through and looking at everything pretty closely , and they 've changed the basis so wow , . |
14 | Ask them if they 're having the same problem . ’ |
15 | And th they they 've announced the next day that they 're having the same concert as well ! |
16 | the Kings theatres in towns where by and large they 're showing the same shows |
17 | And they 're following the same laws so yeah that should be . |
18 | Since then , Runrig have become a national institution and Capercaillie look as though they 're heading the same way . |
19 | Also now that we 've got UNISON the one union I think they can help but I do think that 's what needs to be done , because they 're doing the same with the hospital as , as now doing with the pits even after the closure campaign . |
20 | ‘ Well if Security 's in on that could n't they be finding the same pattern that you have ? ’ |
21 | However , since tests are always used by different people in different settings , it is also necessary to know something about the extent to which the same tester may achieve stable scores , when the test is given to the same person on different occasions , or the extent to which the scores from different testers would be comparable if they were to test the same individual . |
22 | She and Charles worked hard and , despite the fact that they were pursuing the same course , without rivalry . |
23 | The TA bring up the rear , dressed in their lightweight trousers , boots and shirts ; many a member of staff and Regular recruit wishes that they were dressed the same , as the sun is high in the sky and their No 2 dress is somewhat warm . |
24 | They should have been , as they were given the same rations as a British farm labourer . |
25 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
26 | Elsewhere , in the Danube province of Upper Moesia , stratores were to be found supervising road stations at both Nis ( Naissus ) and Cuprija ( Horreum Margi ) , and it is not impossible that they were doing the same in Britain . |
27 | They were doing the same thing as the driver ants , and for the same reasons . |
28 | Olive Saunderson and Norman Field met and fell in love in predictably romantic circumstances when the Fields and the Saundersons were guests on board Lord Vestey 's yacht on a cruise to Norway in 1909 They were married the same year in Dublin and returned to England to set up home . |
29 | When Maggie and Susan left the house they were carrying the same pail and enamel container that they 'd used earlier . |
30 | After all , they were paid the same sum whether Nigel arrived by Rolls Royce or dustcart . |