Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 31 | The complainant no longer needed to make a distinction between petty and serious crime ; all criminal charges were now brought before the same official . |
| 32 | They had served deaf people faithfully and with devotion for more than a century and were correctly described in the same editorial as " dedicated men , universal guides philosopher , and friends who had been on call at every hour of the day . |
| 33 | The triforium galleries of the nunnery at Gernrode ( 960s ) , perhaps the best preserved Ottonian church , were surely built with the same idea . |
| 34 | I agree that it 's silly if they were n't played at the same time . |
| 35 | Yeah , and we were prefects then Nick , we had our own rooms , we were n't sleeping in the same bed or anything , you know , |
| 36 | Emily bit her lip , the girl was obviously in touch with Craig , perhaps they were even living in the same house . |
| 37 | I would suggest that it is probable that Marx , as a materialist , would not have disagreed with Bukharin 's exposition of the case , since Marx 's own illustrations of simple and extended reproduction were implicitly based upon the same assumptions . |
| 38 | Mothers of Welsh infants of similar age were then recruited from the same areas of the city ; they were thus living in similar accommodation and served by the same health professionals . |
| 39 | Charles II managed to induce the Barbados assembly to grant him the revenue forever from a tax of 4½ per cent of the value of all sugar exported from the island , and the Leeward Islands settled on the same terms and were briefly united under the same governor as Barbados . |
| 40 | Although Attlee and Greenwood were ready to accept the invitation , they did not do so at once but made sure that both the National Executive and the annual Conference , which were conveniently meeting at the same time , it being the Whit weekend , were fully consulted and in agreement with their acceptance of office . |
| 41 | As a result , the council having declined to give an undertaking , the interlocutory injunction was discharged ; and your Lordships were informed that the interlocutory injunctions granted in about 100 other cases were likewise discharged for the same reason . |
| 42 | Prisoners offered the choice very rarely preferred death to the colonies but , because they were essentially treated in the same way as indentured servants , they could only go to America if a merchant was willing to take them on the basis of a calculation that he could sell their services at the other end . |
| 43 | It was one of the less pleasant aspects of his present occupation that the Didier School of Cuisine was constantly mentioned in the same breath as Mrs Marshall 's nearby School of Cookery . |
| 44 | We allmost fainted with fright and was only stayed from the same fate by the hand of his Lordship , who handed the keeper the dove ( fake ) the keeper shut its hand and with a gurgling noise vanished with a clang of its lid , and all went pitch . |
| 45 | People usually married within their own clan , and the caste system was thus maintained in the same hereditary form as in most other parts of India . |
| 46 | In three of them , bleeding was finally controlled during the same session . |
| 47 | They had all their limited attention focused on Hrun , who was admittedly built on the same lines as themselves . |
| 48 | No I was just , I was just thinking about the same . |
| 49 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 50 | This approach assumed a degree of consensus within the family which was not assumed to the same extent in any other social institution . |
| 51 | The general fast was not regarded with the same favour everywhere ; in London it was dubbed ‘ General Farce ’ by the National Union of the Working Classes , which organised a demonstration . |
| 52 | It was a pity that Matthew was not made of the same admirable stuff . |
| 53 | Literariness being defined as the difference between automatism and defamiliarization , it was soon perceived that it was not constructed in the same way in all works , and that the devices manifesting difference in prose narrative were not the same as the devices manifesting difference in lyric poetry . |
| 54 | The French interest in European unity was not shared to the same extent by Britain . |
| 55 | ‘ Once I had realized that Tenison , the consulting engineer , was not spelt in the same way as Tennyson , our late-lamented poet Laureate , I had no difficulty . ’ |
| 56 | Admittedly , he was not driven by the same devoutly mercenary ambitions of some of his colleagues and sought artistic satisfaction wherever possible . |
| 57 | In all his years of teaching , Alexander did not come across anyone that was not afflicted by the same problem . |
| 58 | On 18 September ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen ’ was formally christened in the same newspaper , the name soon becoming exclusively attached to the tones of William Joyce . |
| 59 | Mrs. E. Moore of Lion Lane , Haslemere was prompted to send in this photo when she saw the picture of the club 's novelty dress cricket team ( Peeps March 13th ) which was possibly taken around the same time . |
| 60 | If , during training , the rat was always released in the same place , and if it was then released in a different one , it could still swim directly to the platform . |