Example sentences of "speak [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes people ca n't speak for the same sort of reasons , but it 's always got to be something traumatic that 's happened .
2 They will not be led by preachers at their church to face up to the fact that there are four Gospels , that John is significantly different from the Synoptics , that the New Testament writers do not always speak with the same voice even on essential matters of faith .
3 The view was that radio should always speak with the same voice as the Government , aiming to educate and improve rather than entertain the public .
4 But at the moment , I can not speak with the same feeling of achievement about caring for er , elderly , the elderly relative , whereas I think I can say with conviction we 've done quite a lot for those with small children .
5 Careful descriptions of speech are necessary because people 's beliefs about their actual linguistic behaviour are often very inaccurate ; many people think they speak in the same way as they write but , in fact , no one does .
6 It seems , therefore , that focused patterns in real speech communities are not patterns in which all groups speak in the same way , but patterns of relatively stable differentiation within the community .
7 Riva would not hear them , were it not for the fact they speak in the same language , use the same gestures , and wear the same scars or armbands as her saints .
8 Though they crunch the same numbers and speak to the same executives , the agencies ' analysts have reached markedly different conclusions .
9 Here , inconsistency refers to conflicts within the evidence of one or more witnesses who speak to the same version of the facts .
10 How do you make sure that everyone does n't speak at the same time ? "
11 The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously .
12 Executive circulars on 9 and 22 April had drawn attention to Conference and Executive decisions against Party members co-operating with or speaking from the same platform as members of the Communist Party .
13 A US State Department official , Charles E. Redman , on March 10 admitted US " concerns about the possible uses of this ( Egyptian ) equipment " , but the Egyptian President , Hosni Mubarak , speaking on the same day at a news conference in Brussels , Belgium , denied that Egypt was building a chemical weapons plant , adding that " we are all against chemical weapons ' .
14 The more a person is integrated into a close-knit social network , the more time they spend speaking to the same group of people and the less they spend in contact with others who might change their speech .
15 A young man placed himself between the shafts of the trap and prepared to pull his passengers round the village , but not before the publican had been fined a barrel of beer for speaking at the same time as the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ .
16 You see the thing is you can record and listen to yourself speaking at the same time ?
17 But , speaking at the same conference , Ed Wallis , chief executive of PowerGen , the company which will inherit a third of the Central Electricity Generating Board 's stations , warned : ‘ We plan to burn a wider range of fuels from a wider range of sources — and we owe it to our customers to get the best possible deal . ’
18 The President of the European Commission , Jacques Delors , speaking at the same conference , said more explicitly that he could conceive of a situation in which France 's nuclear umbrella could one day be extended to the entire EC under a common doctrine .
19 Signed Danish is a gestural/auditive language in which Danish is spoken at the same time as signs from the Sign Language are used for all words which have a concept , and as far as possible grammatical rules [ are used ] from sign language .
20 All these variations combine to the extent that even words spoken by the same person are never identical [ Vassiere , 1985 ] .
21 Even words spoken by the same person are never identical ( Vaissiere , 1985 ) .
22 A solo singer and guitarist , Charlie speaks with the same determination and intensity that informs her songs .
23 It changes over time , just as any language does : no one nowadays speaks in the same way as the contemporaries of Chaucer or Shakespeare or even Dickens .
24 Older characterizations of ‘ speech community ’ , such as that of Wyld ( 1927 : 47 ) , assume that everybody speaking a ‘ dialect ’ speaks in the same way : these scholars would therefore have believed that inner-city Belfast is homogeneous and would simply not have expected to find the enormous diversity that actually does exist , so they probably would not have bothered to investigate it .
25 Not one character speaks in the same way as another one .
26 The ferryman speaks to the same effect .
27 Joanne spoke with the same contempt Jacqui had shown for the high achievements of forensic science .
28 Simon spoke in the same way : ‘ greed and freedom , they 're the basis of conservatism ’ .
29 A preliminary meeting in Manchester in October 1853 got the support of the BFASS committee ; when an inaugural gathering was held Sturge and Thompson spoke from the same platform and it was resolved that the Manchester Anti-Slavery Union should become an auxiliary of the BFASS .
30 We both spoke at the same time , and , inevitably , the same words .
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