Example sentences of "being [vb pp] by the same " in BNC.

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1 Both firms and workers are being coerced by the same force majeure of insufficient demand in the commodity market .
2 The study will be linked with a follow-up survey of minibuses in Britain , being undertaken by the same researchers on behalf of the Transport & Road Research Laboratory .
3 Both gain from being surrounded by the same protective shell , though they diverge from one another in the precise thickness of shell that they ‘ prefer ’ .
4 Water levels are coming up at exactly the same speed , and Chew and Blagdon are even being visited by the same migrant wildfowl .
5 One may truly get the sense of the Reeve 's Tale being played by the same company with the same costumes on the same stage as the Miller 's Tale : Absolon 's red hose for the " " halyday " " ( 3319 – 40 ) re-appear early on ( 3952 – 5 ) , and the daughter has the same grey eyes as the delicate Absolon ( 3317 , 3974 ) .
6 Coding was carried out by three coders , each child 's home and school observations being coded by the same person .
7 Lord Griffiths , committee chairman , said : ‘ The major step is that clients should have the choice of being represented by the same lawyer throughout .
8 We might say that the narrator is being fucked by the same in the position of the other — a formulation intentionally ambiguous as to who exactly is in the position of the other , since it is both : the narrator is in the position of the woman being fucked by the other of woman ( man ) .
9 There was also a mobile canteen , whose function was to supply urns of tea and light snacks , rolls , etc , at snap time , a snap or tea break being allowed by the same wartime act .
10 Our data are consistent with gonadal sex being determined by the same gene in all mammals and , together with the evidence for a marsupial Y-borne homologue of the mouse Ubely , provide support for a monophyletic origin of the mammalian Y chromosome .
11 The cooperative movement had been going through the same process , and every week was being confronted by the same forces which had compelled trade unionists to consolidate their forces .
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