Example sentences of "they [am/are] [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 .
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