Example sentences of "[pron] be the same [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIR — I am the same age as the funniest sports writer around , Michael Parkinson . |
| 2 | They said that was n't possible and I think I 'm the same opinion as Harry if you 're writing off and stop them going down Station Lane they 'll probably withdraw it altogether . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm the same height as the youth you 've hired , ’ she said . ’ |
| 4 | I was the same age as Mandy Smith , Bill Wyman 's ex-wife , when their affair started . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , actually , Sam said I was the same height as him now and he happened to have two . |
| 6 | The eggs , which are the same size as the adult male mite , take 3 to 4 days to hatch into the three-legged larva . |
| 7 | The area of ground selected was described somewhat imprecisely as : ‘ All that piece of ground situate north of Fig Lane [ now Crowndale Road ] St Pancras extending northwards from thence 650 feet on average abutting Eastwards on the Church path leading to Kentish Town and is in a parallel breadth 270 feet abutting Westward on other Ground intended and agreed to be used as Garden Ground by the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy or the Undertenants and no buildings to be erected thereon which shall raise more than 12 feet above the present surface and nearer than 80 feet to the ground hereby lett and that they will reserve a Street or way 60 feet wide at the least at the northern extremity of the said ground and that the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy do engage to lett to the Veterinary College a piece or any part of their ground at any time within twelve months which they the College shall determine upon a ranging line with the north extremity of the piece already described at and after the rate of £30 per acre nett which are the same terms as the ground described and mentioned are lett at and also at and upon the same reservation of the pepper corn Rent . ’ |
| 8 | Two sixty two eighty which is the same price as |
| 9 | ICE asks for five days , say 35 hours , which is the same number as suggested by the RIBA for structured/practice-related CPD . |
| 10 | To ask them , and equally ( or even more ) to wave them away absentmindedly like circling insects , is to greet the novel , to respond to its personality which is the same thing as the tonal area colonized by the novelist for his present purpose . |
| 11 | ‘ Before you can convict you must he satisfied so that you feel sure — which is the same thing as being satisfied beyond reasonable doubt of the defendant 's guilt . ’ |
| 12 | The weekly amount is £54.15 , which is the same pension as that received by a single person . |
| 13 | This is why people who are the same age as one another usually end up being friends because they are going through the same experiences simultaneously . |
| 14 | You are the same family as us . |
| 15 | You 're the same age as that boy would have been , see if you 've got sixteen ! ’ |
| 16 | Yeah in having said that you 're the same age as me |
| 17 | ‘ My doctor , ’ he said , ‘ has told me that because we are both very depressive types of people , perhaps because we know what life is about that I should n't meet people who were the same way as I am and get depressed about things . ’ |
| 18 | Good ball boy a girl , quite right , gosh she 's the same shape as Rocket . |
| 19 | Kid — she 's the same age as I am . ’ |
| 20 | so I said , she 's the same age as me , she said god , she looked much older than you I said yeah I know , I says it cheers you up doing surgery do n't it seeing all these people that look terrible for their age , so she says well I though she looked older than me , I says yes she does look older , I do n't have , I do n't know how old Sue is , I think she 's forty , I think she 's forty , but this woman she 's got long hair |
| 21 | She is the same age as Sandy — ten years old — and absolutely devoted to her . ’ |
| 22 | She was the same size as me so I knew that her clothes would fit me . |
| 23 | She was the same age as Amy — well , a year older , since her twenty-third birthday last month — and Amy 's life might already be over . |
| 24 | Although she called me ‘ boy ’ , she was the same age as me , but she seemed much older than me . |
| 25 | Since she was the same age as Julius , she had to be in her mid-thirties , but her skin was smooth and unlined . |
| 26 | Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him . |
| 27 | Ten years ago , I met an attractive woman who was the same age as my mother . |
| 28 | and again rotates it through another so square root of minus one times the square root of minus one is the same effect as multiplying by minus one . |
| 29 | Certainly , when anaesthesia , for example , was first introduced , there were the same debates as there are now over the care of VLBW babies , about its experimental nature and the long- and short-term effects of using it . |
| 30 | And the fear there is the same fear as walking down the road in , at night wondering if you 're going to be raped ! |