Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | An old and enduring model of sexual difference , developed most powerfully and resiliently by Galen in the second century AD , had stressed the homologous nature of male and female reproductive organs ; women were said to have the same genitals as men , only inside rather than outside . |
2 | During the first half of the century efforts were made to extend the same technique to the various kinds of animals as well as plants , so that naturalists had access to a vast body of information about the geographical distribution of living things . |
3 | Since both of us were going to meet the same plane , one of us was definitely going the wrong way . |
4 | The mutant enzymes were found to give the same ratio ( data not shown ) . |
5 | Five angraecoid species were found to share the same pollinator , Panogena lingens , but ethological and mechanical mechanisms apparently restrict interspecific pollination despite mixed pollen loads . |
6 | Former athletes who took no further exercise were found to have the same risk factor for a heart attack as those who had never been active . |
7 | It follows criticism that the authorities were failing to provide the same level of help for drug users which is available outside prison . |
8 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |
9 | Section 20(1) ( iv ) was the model for the definition of theft and ‘ appropriate ’ was intended to bear the same meaning . |
10 | It was decided to withdraw the same charges against former Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai and former Finance Minister Hanna Awdah . |
11 | I was going to say the same thing . |
12 | It was a surprise to find that she was beginning to feel the same way about it herself . |
13 | His daughter was fated to face the same problem . |
14 | In contrast to these results , Slobin and Welsh found that a child was able to imitate one of her own utterances immediately after she had produced it spontaneously , but that errors occurred when the child was asked to imitate the same utterance some minutes later . |
15 | 61% of the sample would be not at all concerned if a mentally handicapped child was allowed to attend the same school as their child |
16 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
17 | Last night , Sam had tried to manipulate Clare , and now her grandmother was trying to do the same thing on his behalf . |