Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 2 | For example both children knew that bricks A and B were the same size , but , when viewed through portholes in a box , A looked bigger to one child and B looked bigger to the partner . |
| 3 | They were the same terms which Dante and the mediaeval jurists insisted on : Virgil was great , was perpetually relevant and in that sense ‘ a classic ’ ( if not , more exactingly , the one indisputable ‘ classic ’ ) , because in him could be found what Dante teased out of him — the vision of Empire , of the divinely appointed imperium , which must be reconciled ( this way and that , for the reconciling was not easy ) with the no less divinely intended ecclesia . |
| 4 | The refugees were the same age as he was when he escaped from East Germany 37 years ago . |
| 5 | She wore white ankle socks ; my mother preferred me to wear fawn knee-length ones , but our skirts and berets were the same except mine had a leather band inside you could n't see . |
| 6 | Gaelic is Hebrew but no one knew this until Pitman invented shorthand and then without the vowels it was clear that Gaelic and Hebrew were the same . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if Marx , like most of the anthropologists of his time , saw the study of human society as the continuation of biological evolution , he did not , as they did , believe that human historical processes were the same as the processes of natural selection . |
| 8 | He thought that if people such as the Iroquois of North America practised a particular type of agriculture it could be assumed that their institutions were the same as those of long dead prehistoric peoples who had a similar level of technology . |
| 9 | At the Dollis Hill factory the conditions were the same as elsewhere at Grunwick . |
| 10 | But the effects were the same : an untrammelled credit explosion . |
| 11 | They were not in fact the same thing — they were two separate things — and up until this point , it seemed like it was all one thing — that MainMan and David were the same — but it began to become apparent that they were n't . |
| 12 | As the big bang cooled off , the universe went through a series of transitions ( for example , from the high-energy state when all the forces were the same to the low-energy state in which they are different ) . |
| 13 | It is no wonder that what we see becomes identified with , and spoken of as if it were the same as , what we touch . |
| 14 | He could n't keep pretending that Viola and Eleanor were the same person because Viola 's photo was signed . |
| 15 | If only people were the same , Harriet Shakespeare would not be staring up at a house where terrorists were holding her son . |
| 16 | The buildings were the same kind as where her faceless father had been . |
| 17 | We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another . |
| 18 | Our cushions on the three green chairs were the same dusty pink as the ‘ Beacon Rosa ’ fuchsias in three green pots . |
| 19 | Her interests were the same as most young girls the world over — pop music , boys and clothes , not necessarily in that order . |
| 20 | The elections in Ajdabiya and Kufra were the same kind of apparently inappropriate action ; the demands for autonomy , for independence of the state made by people of whom two thirds are employed by it , seem also to require some explanation . |
| 21 | Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance . |
| 22 | The tennis courts were the same . |
| 23 | They must have done some good ( Cipolla points out that their principles were the same as those of the great 19th-century sanitary reformers such as Sir Edwin Chadwick ) , and yet there seems to be no way of telling from the surviving evidence whether lives were saved as a result . |
| 24 | I wrote to the effect that I did indeed look forward to life with him , and that my guidelines for living were the same as his . |
| 25 | When we met I saw that his eyes were the same , soft and luminous ; and there was no constraint between us . |
| 26 | The study by Arnoult ( 1953 ) , mentioned in the preceding section of this chapter , included a condition in which the subjects were tested not on a discriminative motor task but on a task which required them to make a judgement about whether two stimuli presented together were the same as or different from one another . |
| 27 | He was told that they were unaware of any plan to switch the ceremony to the afternoon and that arrangements were the same as in previous years . |
| 28 | Loyalty and morality were the same thing to her . |
| 29 | Mrs Joyce turned them back-to-back and the smaller children chuckled and somersaulted in their amusement to see the two girls were the same height . |
| 30 | John Hunter , one of the most eminent surgeons of the eighteenth century , was responsible for lending weight to the belief that syphilis and gonorrhoea were the same disease , as a result of a fateful experiment . |