Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [coord] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , they did n't tell you if the landowner and Mr Alec Chipstead were one and the same person , though you could tell that was what they meant . |
| 2 | Sometimes the scientist and the philosopher were one and the same person . |
| 3 | Although it is often assumed that these were one and the same battle , there is no evidence that Clovis fought at Zülpich , and it is possible that they were separate events . |
| 4 | In which case ‘ history ’ becomes a force to be resisted by readers who like literature , and who may also like history , but have never thought they were one and the same thing . |
| 5 | We assumed that Elsie 's death explained her disappearance , that the two events were one and the same thing . |