Example sentences of "[verb] that it [be] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | On recovery , Mr Hayden described the stranger to the porter who agreed that it was the same figure he had seen . |
| 2 | ‘ I liked the coffee tonight , ’ he said , not allowing that it was the same instant coffee as ever , and to deserve the goodness she determined to go up to Soho tomorrow for some beautiful fresh espresso beans . |
| 3 | At once , he could see that it was the same monstrous nightmare that had attacked them in the basement . |
| 4 | The spray from the falls is so dense that you can not peer into it and you must rely on logic to believe that it is the same water that makes the river that snakes along the gorge a few hundred metres away . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , he failed to recognise that it was the same as red iron ore , an abundant and in expensive material , Instead , he thought it was scarce — and consequently expensive — being obtainable only from a particular treatment of iron itself . |
| 6 | This is erm just to demonstrate that it 's the same contract across all of our six companies . |
| 7 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
| 8 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 9 | From which I deduce that it 's the same old scenario , do n't you ? ’ |