Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] to the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The role of the officers — the vanguard of revolutionary education , exempt from the civilian controls which applied to electricity or water — seemed to have encouraged them in their belief that in their private capacities too officers were not subject to the same rules as civilians . |
| 2 | Resentful at being used as manual labourers , blacks then discovered that they were not entitled to the same pay increases as white troops because , as the War Office ruled , they were ‘ natives ’ . |
| 3 | If two different species showed the same coloration , this merely confirmed that they were both subject to the same orthogenetic trend . |
| 4 | Secret sales of property were also subject to the same lambasting . |
| 5 | On April 29 , 1990 , after two days and two nights of filibustering by Communists , Rocard forced through a guillotine measure , transforming the Renault motor company from a régie ( which worked for the " exclusive interest of the nation " , was not subject to the same financial controls as ordinary companies , did not until 1970 have any share capital , was able to implement more progressive wage and labour policies , and remained ultimately under Ministry of Industry control ) into an ordinary public limited company . |
| 6 | And it was a perfectly well-deserved honour which was not open to the same criticism as many of the other honours that Wilson made or unhappily was persuaded to make . |