Example sentences of "playing the same [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without conceit , he told me : " I 'm a ones and can go on playing the same music for ever . " |
| 2 | Lévi-Strauss saw structuralism as playing the same role for the social sciences as nuclear physics had for the physical sciences . |
| 3 | As in Musgrave 's theory of the ‘ public household ’ , one can consider the division of functions between different government agencies , and the operation of these agencies as units playing the same role as firms do in the market . |
| 4 | However , in terms of formulating what happens next ( as required by a continuation study ) , the constraint is soft in that it only raises both the probability of the two characters playing the same role in an elaborated representation . |
| 5 | Her assignment here is as gleeful agent provocateur , playing the same role in the context of the literary establishment that those watchful , silent women play in her own fiction — women who wait out their lives in the house of the enemy , gathering information , biding their time . |
| 6 | ‘ When we were messing around last year , we were playing the same songs to the same music biz people , ’ asserts softly-spoken guitarist Bernard Butler , softly . |