Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it will not do of course , is reconcile needs competing for the same resources . |
| 2 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 3 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 4 | It wo n't be competing for the same resources . |
| 5 | They need a new identity , but in seeking it they find themselves competing for the same political space with social movements that share their radical vocation . |
| 6 | The courts can order presses to be stopped for the same reasons as they can order assets to be frozen or property to be returned . |
| 7 | ‘ Cricket must now be the only sport in which you can be punished for the same offence twice and , who knows , maybe three times if he appeals ! |
| 8 | He had travelled aboard the same flight from Helsinki but in Economy Class , not an experience the Vice President of Information and Planning had enjoyed . |
| 9 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 10 | Patients who presented as emergencies were excluded , as were patients treated during the same period of time with cancers arising in a background of familial Polyposis coli or long standing ulcerative colitis . |
| 11 | For example , different instances of sounds that human listeners perceive as the same may have very different waveforms . |
| 12 | And when the second person starts to speak , the first person goes through the same performance until there is a chance to interrupt and say : ‘ To get back to what I was saying … ’ or ‘ This only goes to prove my point … ’ |
| 13 | A woman with big beautiful hands who smokes too much writes down my name and what she needs to know and what I need to tell , and another worker goes through the same routine with a serene and rather silent woman in her early thirties , with three children and two plastic bags containing toys and toiletries — the mark of a mother on the run , all you can grab in a quick getaway . |
| 14 | The spiny newt of China goes through the same sort of contortions to warn off those that threaten it and adds a special deterrent all its own . |
| 15 | He explained that what makes the document confidential is the fact that the creator of the document has used his brain and thus arrived at a result which can only be produced by somebody who goes through the same process . |
| 16 | I know , but er , Jane goes through the same , I ca n't remember things . |
| 17 | Telephone or client bidding secured the majority : ‘ The Princess of Salm with her son ’ sold for £29,000 ( $45,820 ) , est. £30–45,000 ; ‘ Monsieur de Cormainville sold for £42,000 ( $65,436 ) , est. £25–35,000 ; ‘ The Prince of Saxe-Gotha with his Tutor ’ sold for £20,000 ( $31,600 ) , est. £25–35,000 ) ; ‘ Baron de Talleyrand ’ sold for the same amount against the estimate of £20–30,000 ; ‘ Baron de Bombelles ’ sold for £18,000 ( $28,044 ) , est. £20–25,000 ; ‘ The Duke of York on a quay ’ sold for £17,000 ( $26,486 ) , estimated £20–30,000 ; and ‘ Colonel Morrison ’ sold for £13,000 ( $20,254 ) , est. £15–25,000 . |
| 18 | It is , of course , possible that factors specific to both economies account for the same movement . |
| 19 | Until the FRC and its cohorts have made substantial progress in imposing uniformity in accounting matters , the profession will continue to be criticised because companies account for the same things in different ways . |
| 20 | The Sultanate of Oman produced about the same amount of oil in 1984 as Qatar . |
| 21 | TWO blonde beauties in Prince Charles 's life have fallen for the same attraction . |
| 22 | After I 'd returned and delivered the order someone else asked for the same service , which I willingly performed again , and yet again . |
| 23 | Self and Citrine frequently had to sit through the same item of business as it made its way through three , or in extreme cases five , formal meetings of different bodies before being finally approved . |
| 24 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 25 | Scarlet had thrown away all her old aluminium pans since she had learned that they might cause Alzheimer 's disease , and she never used tap water for cooking for the same reason . |
| 26 | Later when he wanted to release him he had only to go through the same motion but this time having his hand covered with a substance that would neutralize the smell . |
| 27 | In this way he forces the reader to go through the same process of retrospective illumination that he himself has undergone . |
| 28 | It was , you opened it and come out and shut , shut the door and you 'd lose the penny then they 'd got to go through the same operation with another penny , you know what I mean . |
| 29 | No , she 'd only have to go through the same rigmarole to get out . |
| 30 | Whether local government would be allowed to go through the same process is difficult to say . |