Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five weeks later , on 13 November , Southey and Edith Fricker were secretly married in the same church , Southey setting off almost immediately afterwards to spend six months with his uncle in Portugal , leaving Edith behind . |
| 2 | Birth and death , the ultimate holding and letting go , were paradoxically present at the same moment . |
| 3 | Why they were so good and why they were so bad at the same time . ’ |
| 4 | Daimyo took most of their income in the form of rice , and warrior stipends , too , were normally payable in the same commodity . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | While education was the single most significant activity the employers of Advanced Course students engaged in , when it came to job titles and the nature of the jobs the students were or would be doing , educational occupations were not dominant in the same way . |
| 8 | Inevitably , unintended pregnancies were more prevalent among the same groups . |
| 9 | If two different species showed the same coloration , this merely confirmed that they were both subject to the same orthogenetic trend . |
| 10 | Secret sales of property were also subject to the same lambasting . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | John was also active during the same period as an assize and gaol delivery justice and managed to find time to act as one of the trusted servants of Edward 's wife , Queen Eleanor . |
| 14 | ‘ But it was really fun at the same time . |