Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They demonstrate the likelihood that carvers of hard stone , like quartzite , were probably not the same artisans who worked softer minerals like granite or granodiorite . |
| 2 | Ben was almost two years older than Danny , but small for his age , while Danny seemed likely to take after his father , so they were very nearly the same height . |
| 3 | On the other hand , it was quite often the same people who represented their countries in the various bodies : when the ministerial organs of the OEEC , Council of Europe , NATO or WEU were examined , the overlapping nature of their memberships was very apparent . |
| 4 | Uppingham in Rutland , which just reached 300 , was almost exactly the same size as the big villages Langham and Lyddington . |
| 5 | The trouble was that the pile of things they had put aside to back in the cupboards again was almost exactly the same size as the first pile . |
| 6 | The construction of that generality does not pretend to be the only possible one — the same event could operate in all sorts of different ways in different series , temporalities , which would mean that , strictly speaking , it was no longer the same event , for it would have been dispersed in their different rarefactions . |
| 7 | He was no longer the same man . |
| 8 | With the much lower production costs of the late 1980s , small circulation was no longer the same barrier to profitability . |