Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old and enduring model of sexual difference , developed most powerfully and resiliently by Galen in the second century AD , had stressed the homologous nature of male and female reproductive organs ; women were said to have the same genitals as men , only inside rather than outside . |
| 2 | During the first half of the century efforts were made to extend the same technique to the various kinds of animals as well as plants , so that naturalists had access to a vast body of information about the geographical distribution of living things . |
| 3 | Sibelius and Stenhammar were shown setting the same text ( The Girl returned from meeting her lover ) with Stenhammar providing a sharp , sweet , highly contrasted little folkloric scena complete with sad introductory Schubertian piano tune . |
| 4 | The mutant enzymes were found to give the same ratio ( data not shown ) . |
| 5 | Five angraecoid species were found to share the same pollinator , Panogena lingens , but ethological and mechanical mechanisms apparently restrict interspecific pollination despite mixed pollen loads . |
| 6 | Former athletes who took no further exercise were found to have the same risk factor for a heart attack as those who had never been active . |
| 7 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |
| 8 | Section 20(1) ( iv ) was the model for the definition of theft and ‘ appropriate ’ was intended to bear the same meaning . |
| 9 | To test the first possibility P(A) was calculated using the same procedure as before but this time for individual subjects rather than stimuli . |
| 10 | No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim . |
| 11 | It was decided to withdraw the same charges against former Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai and former Finance Minister Hanna Awdah . |
| 12 | His daughter was fated to face the same problem . |
| 13 | In contrast to these results , Slobin and Welsh found that a child was able to imitate one of her own utterances immediately after she had produced it spontaneously , but that errors occurred when the child was asked to imitate the same utterance some minutes later . |
| 14 | 61% of the sample would be not at all concerned if a mentally handicapped child was allowed to attend the same school as their child |
| 15 | To determine whether acute smoking has an acute effect on gastric secretion that can explain the findings of the chronic studies , the effect of this on gastric secretion was studied using the same methods as those used in the chronic studies of Whitfield and Hobsley . |
| 16 | In the second investigation , a general collocation dictionary was tested using the same document . |
| 17 | The OALD was indexed using the same technique as that applied to the CED , and used as the source of definitions by the overlap program . |