Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Married Women 's Property Acts of the 1870s and 1880s permitted women to control their own property , although married women were not given the same capacity as single women to acquire , hold and dispose of property until 1935 . |
| 2 | When the white man came ( what a familiar and mournful phrase ) they were not allowed the same freedom to repossess their cattle . |
| 3 | Top Nosh and air-conditioning servicing were shortly to go the same way . |
| 4 | ‘ This little oasis is a great pleasure to everyone in the area and it would be a travesty if it were ever to go the same way as everywhere else in the Newbury district — for commercial gain . ’ |
| 5 | Frances Donaghy of the RCN in Northern Ireland said 2,000 beds had been removed during the past four years yet hospitals were still handling the same volume of patients . |
| 6 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 7 | I entirely accept that if er , four years on we were still doing the same thing that then they 'd be er , some erm , requirement for er , cutting back but I think it is also worth reminding ourselves that due to the action of this conservative government in er , forcing the local government review , er , we are facing the spectre er , of an additional full meeting of this council , and indeed we have had to er , respond to that government initiative . |
| 8 | In minutes he was dressed and looking for his signallers at the Dutch HQ , for as second in command of the Company he must warn headquarters and the platoons in their hill positions above the town , as well as contacting Sparrow Force , whom he did not know were under attack the same night . |
| 9 | They reported that four other cars were also doing the same thing . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean they were probably lying or coming over romantic about the past , and , what 's more , all those old poets were probably doing the same thing . |
| 11 | But they were probably saying the same thing at the end of the 1960s after the Socialist Party of the day , the Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste , had won a mere 16.5 per cent of the vote in the 1968 general election and Gaston Deferre , their candidate in the following year 's presidential election had polled just 5 per cent . |
| 12 | The same chapter in Chronic Diseases highlights this thus ‘ In taking one and the same medicine repeatedly ( which is indispensable to secure the cure of a serious chronic disease ) , if the dose is in every case varied and modified only a little in its degree of dynamization , then the vital force of the patient will calmly , and as it were willingly receive the same medicine even at brief intervals very many times in succession with the best results , every time increasing the well-being of the patient . ’ |
| 13 | At one extreme , there might be the virtual monoculture of the new agricultural areas , imposed by their orientation towards a remote world market , and intensified , if not created , by the characteristic mechanism of foreign merchant firms in the great port cities which controlled this export trade — the traditional Greeks who ran the Russian corn trade through Odessa , the Bunges and Borns from Hamburg who were about to fulfil the same function for the River Plate countries from Buenos Aires and Montevideo . |
| 14 | The five-strong crew thought they were about to suffer the same disaster that struck another British Airways flight in June 1990 . |
| 15 | At school I did English and Art , and looked at theatre design in art — it was all pointing the same way , really . |
| 16 | Emily was obviously thinking the same thing . |
| 17 | He said hardly anything , I knew he really did n't want to be with us ( with Caroline ) but he 'd caught us up ; he ca n't have spotted from behind who we were , he was obviously going the same way . |
| 18 | Exactly , I was just thinking the same thing . |
| 19 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 20 | Half an hour later , Rosie was dreamily humming the same tune in the back of the taxi-cab that was taking her and Ernest home to Poplar ; they had slipped quietly away from the party , leaving the pub by the side door . |
| 21 | It was not spelt the same way for a start . |
| 22 | She hoped with all her heart that he was not going the same way as his stepfather ; and yet , the signs were already there . |
| 23 | ‘ She was still wearing the same clothes which she disappeared in . |
| 24 | He was still wearing the same clothes he 'd worn that afternoon , and Juliet wondered if he had been out that evening , and who with . |
| 25 | Three years later he was still exercising the same power . |
| 26 | In 1890 the Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society acquired its present premises at 49 Albany Street , where the Congregational Church was also erected the same year next door . |
| 27 | He hoped George was n't thinking the same thought . |
| 28 | He feels that as he loved her so much during this time , he ca n't believe she was n't feeling the same way . |
| 29 | I , I was about to ask the same thing , yeah . |
| 30 | The bird might then learn that a certain movement of its bill in relation to a milk bottle results in a meal ; and if the bird was then to perform the same activity on an unopened bottle it might break through the top for itself . |