Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top Nosh and air-conditioning servicing were shortly to go the same way . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They reported that four other cars were also doing the same thing . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | At school I did English and Art , and looked at theatre design in art — it was all pointing the same way , really . |
| 11 | Emily was obviously thinking the same thing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Exactly , I was just thinking the same thing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Three years later he was still exercising the same power . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Eleanor Mary Milligan , as she was hastily christened the same week her mother was buried , seemed to know from the moment she came into this world at number 1015 Westfield Avenue that in order to survive she must be good and quiet , and not be any trouble to her father or brothers . |
| 20 | THE ARMY WAS AGAIN TO PERFORM THE SAME SERVICE FOR HIM IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH EXCEPT THAT NEXT TIME IT WAS A GUIDED TOUR OF THE COURSES OF ACTION WHICH WERE NOT OPEN TO HIS GOVERNMENT AS THE GENERAL STRIKE ORGANISED BY THE ULSTER WORKERS ' COUNCIL MOVED TO A CLIMAX . |