Example sentences of "[v-ing] on the same " in BNC.
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1 | An almost annual phenomenon of the garden book trade is horticultural convergence — two or more books appearing on the same , previously neglected subject , often without the authors knowing anything of their rivals ' work . |
2 | Appearing on the same page as the article is the information that Town Crier is printed in Bishop Auckland . |
3 | ( In the event Mrs Fricker survived until 1809 , dying on the same November day as Coleridge 's own mother . ) |
4 | So just keeping on the same sort of subject , of sex , drugs and , |
5 | As it was , I felt thrilled to be walking on the same ground that young Thomson had trodden long before . |
6 | " You must know her pretty well , living on the same boat . |
7 | Two light bulbs need replacing on the same day , and we say it 's just a ‘ coincidence ’ . |
8 | The printer ( Panasonic KX-P2123 ) simply continues overprinting on the same line without any attempt to line feed . |
9 | These tales made quite an impression on me as did the story of Uncle Fred 's eldest son , young Fred as he was known , putting on his age and managing to join the Marines when only sixteen , then found himself serving on the same ship as his father during the great battle — something of a unique record . |
10 | But the Colonel and John-William were both Justices of the Peace , often serving on the same Bench together , and although she had so far shirked inviting them to dine — the prospect of being alone with the Colonel 's lady frankly terrifying her — she was delighted to see them here today , feeling that their presence lent great distinction . |
11 | Chemically , they differ considerably from morphine , but they can usually be seen to correspond to part of the morphine molecule , and are thus envisaged as acting on the same receptors . |
12 | The sex exclusive markers which do indeed occur in some languages are superficially striking , but on closer inspection they can be seen to result from a few regular and predictable rules acting on the same basic structures . |
13 | The Russian Federation Security Council meeting on the same day expressed concern over arms deliveries from Romania to Moldova ( although on May 31 the Moldovan Foreign Ministry had denied Gen. Grachev 's claims that Romania was supplying Moldova with tanks , claiming that only pontoon bridges and trucks were donated ) . |
14 | Wave-producing species shift their frequencies slightly to avoid confusion with nearby fish operating on the same frequency . |
15 | the establishment of a new species of law centre , ‘ Citizens ’ Law Centres , ’ financed out of public funds , without involvement in general community work such as the mounting of campaigns or political or social work , with clients paying on the same basis as legally-aided clients of private practitioners , managed by a central agency and advised by a local advisory committee ; |
16 | Cherbonnier & Sibuet ( 1972 ) consider S. pulvirus to be distinct from S. verrilli because the infradental papillae lie above the teeth and are contiguous , not lying on the same level as and separated by the ventral most tooth as in Lyman 's holotype , and the ventralmost tooth , i.e. the one next to the infradental papillae is block-like whereas in the holotype of S. verrilli it is tricuspid . |
17 | Hurriedly showering and pulling on the same pair of jeans she had worn the day she 'd arrived , she jerked a baggy sweater over her head and went downstairs . |
18 | They were all grafted on and they 're all growing on the same tree . |
19 | In time , spraying on the same scent habitually can make us completely insensitive to it . |
20 | But instead of waiting on the same platform for an Edgware train , they made their way up to the British Rail terminus , and in the men 's lavatory the bear got into his bear suit . |
21 | If a stretch of river holds more than one shoal of bream that patrol the same beat , then the only way they can pass each other when feeding on the same beat at the same time , is for one shoal to pass over the other . |
22 | Revisiting the site at intervals ( of at least a week ) note whether the marked animals are feeding on the same prey or not . |
23 | So for the rest of the month I was in charge of wages , piece rates , training , negotiations and all the rest of it , and then one day a month I was regularly calling on the same customers in Bloomsbury and I was collecting money , selling the goods and so on , which I think was a very important part of my continued training . |
24 | The main disadvantage is that there is a possibility , with large customers in particular , that several different representatives from the organization will each be calling on the same customer . |
25 | 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 ' . |
26 | In face-to-face meetings all the visual signals are a great aid to getting on the same wavelength with someone . |
27 | As it turned out , she would have done better to have stayed on her pillow , for there she might have been found by Maud or Enid who would possibly have put two and two together at the curious sight of a cat and frog nestling on the same bed . |
28 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |
29 | And yet again , Charles insisted on flying on the same plane as his sons William and Harry . |
30 | Some people have great difficulty in solving problems and making decisions and waste a great deal of time ruminating on the same thoughts without ever coming to a clear conclusion . |