Example sentences of "[noun] are [adv] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I mean and I think it is the lack of the regulate the er the regulatory control of city actions , I mean one of the points that we 've been recently been advised on is that one of the city institutions which has already been er fined , er from its London office on a technicality is in effect the New York and London offices are deemed to be one entity and I think that er what we 've been advised is that erm I forget the phrase , I wrote it down here somewhere , that what we would be advised to do is to take action against that particular city institution in New York , because that er it is deemed that the London and New York actions are in fact one and that the that er what in fact the er and I think the f yes , there it is , that , that in a way though what we 've been advised is that the basis of that action would be that the organisations London and New York operations are essentially the same operation and bound by a strict know your customer rule as mandated by U S Securities Law , you know .
2 Frankfurters are the most widely known of all the scalded sausages , and many other varieties such as Bockwurst , Knackwurst and Weinerwurst are really the same thing but in different sizes .
3 As you can see , he 's much greyer than she is , which is rare — both sexes of tawnies are usually the same colour .
4 When two solutions of different concentrations are separated by a membrane the tendency is for movement through the membrane to occur so that eventually both solutions are exactly the same strength on both sides of the membrane .
5 In fact very few people 's legs are exactly the same length .
6 Does my right hon. Friend agree that the reasons why we are updating Trident are basically the same reasons as caused the Labour Government to update our nuclear deterrent by bringing in Chevaline , the difference being that we are doing it openly and they did it under wraps ?
7 Not only does seeing a chair as a three-dimensional object have this character , but so does seeing one line as longer in the Mulier-Lyer illusion ( in which two lines of equal length look unequal when differently slanting lines are drawn at the tips ) despite our knowing that the two lines are really the same length .
8 Some three hundred kilometres in a north-westerly direction , the Faroe Islands are roughly the same distance from Shetland as are Aberdeen to the south and Bergen in Norway to the east .
9 The other rivers from the Pennines are roughly the same size .
10 Bus and train are much the same price at the moment though it 's quicker to take the bus .
11 If initial position is reserved for theme and if topic always occurs in initial position , then theme and topic are presumably the same thing .
12 Sara and Patsy are much the same age and are very fond of each other .
13 However , if good and this property are simply the same thing , then the judgement that what has this property is good is just a tautology , and can not serve as the kind of important value judgement it is meant to be .
14 Especially since the ‘ efficiency savings ’ from 10 years of government cuts are much the same size .
15 I think this argument 's about the benefit of the countryside is somewhat debatable to say the least And these arguments that are put about why we should n't ban fox hunts because of all the benefits and the tradition are exactly the same arguments that were put about otters and about badgers and about other sports that we have , that we no longer consider satisfactory and have opposed .
16 ‘ I know people have a different attitude to things now than we had before the war , but you and Chris are still the same sort of people .
17 As work progresses , make regular check for horizontal , and to ensure that both walls are exactly the same height
18 Usually , plaquettes are approximately the same area as thin sections : they may often be prepared as a first step in section-making .
19 In the nests of the few species that feed exclusively on carrion , the queen cells and food storage cells are much the same size .
20 The leaf-stalks are almost the same length as the leaf-blades .
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