Example sentences of "[was/were] exactly the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dice were exactly the same ; there is even a fragment of a wall bearing electoral slogans , which prove to be more civil than ours : ‘ I ask you to elect Holconius Priscus duovir . |
| 2 | Never did he find two that were exactly the same . |
| 3 | Hall and Honey ( 1989a ) report a further study ( experiment 3 ) in which the procedures were exactly the same as those used in their appetitive conditioning experiment except for the use of shock as the reinforcer and conditioned suppression as the measure of behaviour . |
| 4 | These Selmer/Adams Fenders were exactly the same colour as the Watkins Rapiers which Derek also sprayed . |
| 5 | His were exactly the same . ’ |
| 6 | Whether or not the assessor 's criteria were exactly the same as Frances Stevens 's is neither here nor there . |
| 7 | She still did not have much use for him personally ; he , too , was twenty-one , they were exactly the same age take a week or so , and very sure of himself , too sure , even for her taste . |
| 8 | The sunlight from an open window shone into his eyes , and she noticed that they were exactly the same shade of green as Stephen 's , and just as opaque . |
| 9 | And I have lots of letters which I discovered about five years ago , which I thought were probably letters that my father had written it , Adam , because his name and my grandfather 's name were exactly the same . |
| 10 | The great rat 's eyes were exactly the same . |
| 11 | The tackle and techniques I used were exactly the same as I use for pike in the UK . |
| 12 | Bait , tackle and method were exactly the same . |
| 13 | There were no squabbles … as long as they did everything the same as anybody else and paid their fees , which were exactly the same . |
| 14 | Fifteen of the films , the targets , were exactly the same pieces of film that had been shown in the judgment phase . |
| 15 | Subjects watched a further 48 films , 24 of the films , the targets , were exactly the same pieces of film that had been shown in the judgment phase . |
| 16 | Results showed that the distributions of labelled cells and the labelling indices were exactly the same in FAP and SCRC cases . |
| 17 | I did n't know ( still do n't ) if these insects were exactly the same as my original , " lost chords of Zarathustra " insects , or whether they were superficially " convergent " ( see next chapter ) , but it was good enough . |
| 18 | ‘ In Ribble Valley I realised that the Liberals ’ poll tax policies were exactly the same as the ones I 'd worked out , based on reason and logic , in my own back room , ’ he says . |
| 19 | But in the trackside wastelands near Stockton , Norton and Billingham the looks on their faces were exactly the same . |
| 20 | But in the trackside wastelands near Stockton , Norton and Billingham the looks on their faces were exactly the same . |
| 21 | Well I 'm not sure that it was exactly the first , but it was one of the early ones , that 's true . |
| 22 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |
| 23 | The Trustees made a recommendation to that effect to the Bedfordshire LEA in 1930 which was accepted by the county 's Adult Education Subcommittee as the scheme ‘ had been conducted on sound lines , was distinctly encouraging , that the particular tutor-organiser was exactly the right person required ’ . |
| 24 | Labanowski is on an eight-week tour , and regrettably last night was the only Ipswich performance — coincidentally , All Fools Day , which was exactly the right spirit . |
| 25 | If you only knew , she thought — it was exactly the right moment . |
| 26 | His dark suit was impeccable , his hair was exactly the right length , and the fragrance of his aftershave was just sufficiently elusive as to be almost unbearably tantalising . |
| 27 | The natural plaster was exactly the same colour as the pink in the brick , while the yellow in the brick was the same colour as the Rayburn , so it all started to pull together . |
| 28 | When both taxes and public spending seemed out of control at the end of the Callaghan era , the proportion of voters telling Gallup that ‘ taxes should be cut even if it means some reduction in government services such as health , education and welfare ’ was exactly the same as the proportion saying ‘ government services such as health , education and welfare should be extended even if it means some increase in taxes ’ . |
| 29 | About 60 per cent said they preferred them , many claiming that the tea tasted better — even though the content was exactly the same as the square . |
| 30 | However , the proportion of men and women previously known to the psychiatric services was exactly the same ( 84 per cent ) for both GP and other referrals . |