Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although spiders and insects hear the world in a very different way from us , they are sampling the same sounds carried through the air . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | One believes they are making the same mistakes as the oil companies made — ‘ giving away the product in the hope of buying customers ’ . |
| 9 | They 're taking the same men on . |
| 10 | 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 , . |
| 11 | Ask them if they 're having the same problem . ’ |
| 12 | And th they they 've announced the next day that they 're having the same concert as well ! |
| 13 | the Kings theatres in towns where by and large they 're showing the same shows |
| 14 | And they 're following the same laws so yeah that should be . |
| 15 | Since then , Runrig have become a national institution and Capercaillie look as though they 're heading the same way . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Well if Security 's in on that could n't they be finding the same pattern that you have ? ’ |
| 18 | She and Charles worked hard and , despite the fact that they were pursuing the same course , without rivalry . |
| 19 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They were doing the same thing as the driver ants , and for the same reasons . |
| 22 | When Maggie and Susan left the house they were carrying the same pail and enamel container that they 'd used earlier . |
| 23 | While these groups and individuals may not always have shared our analysis , they were asking the same questions about the link between government claims and reality in relation to job creation and training in West Belfast . |
| 24 | Cos there was different er things do you see , infantry , Royal Welsh and things like that , they were going the same as us . |
| 25 | They 's doing the same thing outside your flat . |