Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dogs who attacked Becky were destroyed the same day . |
| 2 | Mixu Paatelainen was shown the same consideration earlier in the season and the word from the maternity unit at Pittodrie is that Mrs Duncan Shearer is next in the gynaecological line . |
| 3 | Yes , oh aye I Yes , we You had to measure , and in those days , the councils were grouped in what they called Assessment Committee Areas , and each were wor making sure the other areas were using the same sort of basis . |
| 4 | Within a generation or two aristocratic Christians were pursuing the same interests as their pagan ancestors . |
| 5 | Harvard dealers were granted the same perk and for that reason kept it concealed from clients , even if it would swing the sale . |
| 6 | A pair of identical twins of very similar abilities were taught the same topic by teachers of greatly different experience . |
| 7 | The four-pocket blouse was to display the same shoulder straps and collar insignia as the 1895 pattern . |
| 8 | As a comparison , he pointed out that if the entire population of China were set the same task , it would take them more than four hours to complete it . |
| 9 | Half a century later the top-hatted , side-whiskered Stingy Uncle in Punch was giving the same advice . |
| 10 | Your first title was indented the same amount as your first title . |
| 11 | Roland 's stag night was planned the same Saturday but after a week the best man realized that he was going to be skiing then ! oops . |
| 12 | Broadly parallel announcements were made the same day in respect of Wales and Scotland . |
| 13 | In fact there was no paradox , for it was the theoretical assumption that speech and writing were fulfilling the same functions and the inability to recognise their separate characters that made it possible to use one as the model for the other . |
| 14 | Non-radioactive oligonucleotide duplexes were prepared the same way by mixing 2 pmol each of the complementary strands . |
| 15 | Other right-wing intellectuals were making the same point . |
| 16 | He was sure that McAllister was undergoing the same experience . |
| 17 | Of his playing partners , Greg Norman was fined the same amount , but Ken Brown , who had been punished the day before , had to fork out £100 for a second offence . |
| 18 | One reason is that , if each firm were charged the same price or tax for a marginal unit of pollution , then every firm would pollute up to the point at which the marginal cost of reducing pollution was equal to the price of pollution . |
| 19 | The abbey was surrendered the same year . |
| 20 | Endill was given the same suitcase his father and grandfather had taken with them to school . |
| 21 | Almost as many men died behind the lines as did from going over the top , an old sergeant told Charlie , and it did n't help to know that the Germans were suffering the same problems a few hundred yards away . |
| 22 | A team of over 100 scientists was working to produce a weapon of almost inconceivable power , ‘ their moral scruples overcome by the fascination of the research and the haunting fear that the Germans were following the same path ’ . |
| 23 | Is n't it time that members standing for C E C elections were given the same equality with Regional Secretaries , who as we all know , all year round , in all regions , when a leaflet or a booklet goes out to members , in most of them there is a photograph of the Regional Secretary . |
| 24 | ‘ Although Chris and I had divorced , we still played together , standing three feet from each other , and Lindsey and Stevie were doing the same number . |
| 25 | Other young fellows were doing the same thing ; we used to meet and recognize each other and compare notes — and pretty scathing we were at times with what we found . |
| 26 | On Oct. 26 a further search was made and Wolfgang Pöhl , the party treasurer , and another party official were arrested the same day under suspicion of embezzling party funds . |
| 27 | She saw that Defries and Johannsen were attempting the same manoeuvre . |
| 28 | If the painter were to use the same intensity of blue for the sea both near and far then the effect would not be at all realistic . |
| 29 | Every last bit of unkempt hedge in our front garden was taking the same attitude it had always taken . |
| 30 | A spokesman for the South African police was quoted the same day as saying that the establishment of " private armies " was " a recipe for civil war " . |