Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [prep] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval .
2 Three of these were of the same size as those in the front compartment : the other three were no more than five feet in length .
3 To achieve it he had to work on individuals , exploiting relationships which were not open , public ones : he could not have called a meeting to appeal to everyone 's obligations as a relative by descent and by marriage , as if these were of the same kind as those of a citizen , an Arab or a Muslim .
4 I felt absurdly that we three were on the same side fighting the rest of the world .
5 All were at the same stage of their career , applying for their first senior house officer post in a non-teaching hospital because applications to teaching hospitals usually require completion of a form .
6 Since this internegative was at the same stage as Yuricich 's dupe , two generations of film had been skipped to produce a higher quality shot in which the join is much harder to detect .
7 Plasma CCK concentrations reached during infusion of CCK-33 were in the same range in the three experiments , thus excluding the possibility that differences in gall bladder contraction between the hyperglycaemic and normoglycaemic experiments are related to differences in plasma CCK concentrations .
8 Luckily , that was about the same time that my mother and father bought me a radio , and all my other interests just disappeared once I had that …
9 Erm that was on the same vein and they got they got a ce er a certain amount of national er erm national er publicity .
10 They were successfully raised and after being carefully examined and analysed with carbon dating techniques , they appear to have been under construction around 1500 BC — that was at the same time as Stonehenge was built .
11 There was something about her mouth , calm and amused , that was at the same time enigmatic and debunking ; pretending and admitting the pretence .
12 We are the best and worst band in the world … that was in the same issue !
13 The activities of the chains , however , meant that only a third of the mornings still published in 1988 were in the same ownership as in 1945 .
14 Both were from the same village as Mr Shahiduddin Postman ; both had managed to get educated and to break out of the village on to the lower rungs of academia .
15 By this time , Celia had the same throat and both were in the same bed for company .
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