Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by the same [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more valuable emergency aid was siphoned off by foreign ministry officials for their own use or re-sale ( just as many of the outpourings of Western sympathy for the orphans and destitute of Ceauşescu 's Romania were purloined by the same fat-cats in the ministries early in 1990 after the fall of their master ) . |
| 2 | He was treated by the same experts who saved the life of TV star Leslie Crowther . |
| 3 | Truman , lacking the experience of foreign affairs , was surrounded by the same advisers as Roosevelt and was willing to continue the same policy . |
| 4 | He turned and left , ignoring the shouts and screams of the small wet attendant as — after the under-cook had gathered the other scullions round , pointed to the cauldron , the ladle and its own belly before nodding at the wet attendant — the kicking , howling creature was grabbed by the same scullions who had recently been comforting it , hoisted up the ladder still resting against the side of the great vat , and thrown back in . |
| 5 | Our conduct in the international arena was governed by the same rules and limits as the Americans ’ ( Khrushchev : 1970 , p. 496 ) . |