Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the same breath " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , awkwardly , schizophrenically , these twisted sickos are taken up by the right-on , their cause espoused in the same breath as calls for a better world the assumption being that the better things in life — hip hop imports , clothes , socialism — would undoubtedly cohabit in utopia . |
| 2 | Guide to Kulchur gives us Pound at his most personal , at his most deliberately vulnerable ; it is here that we find him wondering aloud , for instance , if the body of his work to that date could be mentioned in the same breath with Thomas Hardy 's . |
| 3 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang as singles players , but neither has made quite the same impact as yet . |
| 4 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , but neither has made the same impact as yet . |
| 5 | Mostly when they are mentioned they are mentioned in the same breath as legacies . |
| 6 | Comfort means different things to different people , but when food and comfort are mentioned in the same breath , chances are that the tastes and textures of childhood will come back to visit us whether we consciously realise it or not . |
| 7 | The initials ‘ BCCI ’ and ‘ CIA ’ were even beginning to be mentioned in the same breath . |
| 8 | " Not to be mentioned in the same breath with … " she said , looking nervously from Frederica to painted signature . |
| 9 | It was one of the less pleasant aspects of his present occupation that the Didier School of Cuisine was constantly mentioned in the same breath as Mrs Marshall 's nearby School of Cookery . |
| 10 | Although the soundblaster and Adlib cards are mentioned in the same breath when referring to their support by Windows , I think that it should be pointed out that unlike the SoundBlaster card , the Adlib card ( not including the Adlib Gold ) can only play MID files via the Media Player , and is not capable of playing the digitised speech WAV files . |
| 11 | In fact , " names " like George Burns , Scott Hoch and Wayne Levi are heading towards earnings of two million , while " Super " names such as Mark Calcavecchia are mentioned in the same breath as European millionaires Seve , Sandy and Nick . |