Example sentences of "[conj] they [adj] [vb base] the same " in BNC.

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1 Although they all share the same aim , retail outlets vary considerably .
2 Their one flaw however is that they all bear the same serial number , which has been circulated to all MOT centres across the province .
3 This implies the rather restricting condition that they all have the same activation energy and there are doubts upon this point being raised in recent research .
4 It means that they all have the same good view .
5 The concept of equisignificance can now be easily explained , for to say of two symbols that they have the same meaning is merely to say that they both express the same species of thought .
6 Thus in R v Stanley ( 1965 ) , Lord Chief Justice Parker explained the meaning of the terms ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ by suggesting that they both convey the same idea , ‘ namely , offending against recognised standards of propriety , indecent being at the lower end of the scale and obscene at the upper end ’ .
7 ‘ Apparently she 's seen plenty of specialists and they all say the same thing — she 's blind because she refuses to see . ’
8 If you were the mum and you brought these pizzas in and there was four people sitting there when you 've got six pizzas and they all want the same size .
9 These ashes , in their small portions , were accompanied by the death certificates of distinct individuals ; but ashes are just ashes , and they all look the same , and they went straight into the pot of the Hartheim incinerator .
10 I 've got round it with a couple of amplifiers that I 've built myself ; they 're very reliable and they both sound the same .
11 It is simpler if they all have the same length .
12 If they all have the same score then the decision to carry just one forward is arbitrary , or they must all be carried forward just as though a tree were being searched .
13 they came in our tent cos they all look the same
14 But they all count the same .
15 Again , attempts have been made to classify purrs into different types , but they all carry the same basic message of friendliness .
16 Because they all do the same thing .
17 Several hundred musicians and their CEO , the conductor , can play together because they all have the same score .
18 It is all too easy to assume that since they all offer the same types of mortgages there is little to choose between them .
19 I 've never had anything like that before they all look the same ma
20 The size of the type itself varies enormously , 12 point Bookman looks much bigger than 12 point times even though they both occupy the same amount of space vertically on the page .
21 Total , or , elsewhere , global , history assumes a spatio-temporal continuity between all phenomena , and a certain homogeneity between them insofar as they all express the same form of historicity — Althusser 's essential section — whereas in general history the problem is precisely to determine the relation between different series : whereas a total history draws everything together according to a single principle , a general history analyses the space of dispersion and heterogeneous temporalities .
22 This is not the easiest selection of flowers to use in a design as they all look the same , and apart from turning some of the rose petals into buds , it is hard to introduce any interesting variations into the shapes in the picture .
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