Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't do many subjects together and were only in the same group for French and history . |
| 2 | The Roman Church had become very powerful and dismissed the Greeks as impious heretics who were not on the same level as the holy church of the West . |
| 3 | Hard solders , on the other hand , were usually of the same metal as the object they were used on , but alloyed with a few per cent of another metal in order to reduce the melting point . |
| 4 | These differences were always in the same direction — more pronounced hormonal responses and more reporting of symptoms with porcine insulin . |
| 5 | In contrast , Bangladeshi babies sleeping during the day were always in the same room as other family members , in a relatively noisy , busy environment . |
| 6 | Mark and Clare were still in the same position . |
| 7 | Although you were still in the same quarter . |
| 8 | Many of the Kemsley provincial papers were still in the same group in 1987 as in 1947 , but now under a different owner . |
| 9 | The smooths bore little resemblance to the early skins , although they were clearly of the same descent . |
| 10 | In fact , she was fond of saying that FAMILY and the women 's liberation movement were both on the same side if they did but know it . |
| 11 | It is believed one of the major problems facing the clubs ' proposals then was the fact that they were both in the same league . |
| 12 | The boys were also from the same home . |
| 13 | We were not alone in our dilemma , for all the other prahus in the fleet around us were up against the same deadline . |
| 14 | Magic and medicine were often in the same melting pot . |
| 15 | The Doctor had assured them that they were now on the same level as they had started on , but Francis was n't convinced . |
| 16 | In patients with MEN 1 associated Zollinger-Ellison sydrome , howeve , diffuse and linear cell hyperplasia were roughly of the same order ( 53% and 47% , respectively ) . |
| 17 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 18 | Once we were there at the same time . |
| 19 | After an even start Oxford led by quarter of a length at the mile but Cambridge were ahead by the same distance at Hammersmith Bridge . |
| 20 | There were gruff mutterings of ‘ excellent story ’ or ‘ very good ’ from the two men , who were never in the same league and knew it . |
| 21 | Oh well Morse was on at the same time . |
| 22 | She felt almost sorry for Professor M. L. Vaughan , who was obviously in the same rank as her self-confident great-uncle , and differed from him on almost every point . |
| 23 | Henry VI was not of the same calibre as his father . |
| 24 | Lord Scarman 's inquiry was not on the same scale as the famous Kerner Report in 1968 on the US riots , but since the publication of his Report in November 1981 his views and prescriptions have played an important role in fashioning political debate about the riots . |
| 25 | Despite the repression practised by the Somoza regime in Nicaragua , its legacy of under-development was not on the same scale as that left by some 400 years of Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique . |
| 26 | was not on the same line . |
| 27 | Although friendly , the hostel was not in the same class as its neighbour at Boggle Hole . |
| 28 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 29 | There was no extemporisation ; it was always in the same format . |
| 30 | Support for the Greens may have shrunk but it was still at the same level as the Liberal Democrats ’ , the third party in Parliament , so perhaps Ms Cooke was unduly downcast . |