Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the same [noun] as " in BNC.
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1 | These Selmer/Adams Fenders were exactly the same colour as the Watkins Rapiers which Derek also sprayed . |
2 | BROTHERS Steven and Matthew Rivers were almost the same ages as Princes William and Harry when their small world fell apart . |
3 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
4 | It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them . |
5 | He was much the same height as Hotspur , and much the same build , though twenty years at least older , and a century more crafty , and there was always the curious suggestion about him that he was ready and waiting to fit himself into the void if ever Hotspur slipped out of being . |
6 | It was much the same situation as with the ship attack . |
7 | He detested the commercial world and , although he was much the same age as the Prince , had no time for the young . |
8 | Dawyck Haig 's son Alexander was much the same age as Alastair and when the two were old enough we used to have fathers ' and sons ' tennis and golf matches . |
9 | The girl was approximately the same age as the rector , must have weighed thirteen stone , and was dressed in a rather tight flowered overall . |
10 | The natural plaster was exactly the same colour as the pink in the brick , while the yellow in the brick was the same colour as the Rayburn , so it all started to pull together . |
11 | The process that was followed in preparing the , which was exactly the same process as being followed in previous years . |
12 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
13 | The car was exactly the same model as his mother 's . |
14 | Her blue eyes were a shade or two deeper than those of her daughter , but her fair hair was exactly the same shade as Carrie 's . |
15 | With about 20,000 inhabitants , it was roughly the same size as these two English towns , and was just as provincial and bourgeois in character , but its people really knew how to live . |
16 | Carter was an exception , to this and to everything else , but I used to feel that I was roughly the same age as the reigning American President . |
17 | It was unmistakably the same girl as in the photographs ; especially that on the cabinet of curiosa . |
18 | It was unmistakably the same music as before , though it was a brand new cassette . |
19 | I hope that the hon. Member for Fife , Central ( Mr. McLeish ) will understand that I do not intend to follow what he said in his long speech — it was almost the same length as his speech in our previous debate on the subject — or his wide range of criticisms of the Government 's policy . |
20 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
21 | All it was doing was essentially the same operation as that performed by the computer when it copies data from one location to another . |