Example sentences of "[am/are] [prep] the same [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 In his new job Mr Riddell will be chief executive of the UK and European operations , which are about the same size as the whole group was when he left .
2 Top footballers the world over are about the same standard but the hun-grier , more aggressive animal is the victor .
3 ‘ They are about the same age and build , a man and a woman , but beyond that — Some inflammable substance had been poured on them , almost certainly petrol . ’
4 The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological .
5 The images of vision are of the same order as creative ideas , but the mind must be aimed at the horizon , and the thoughts must be concentrated in the emotion of creativity .
6 The differences between them are of the same order as the differences between modern Dutch and standard German : the Brut retains the OE case-inflexions and grammatical gender , whereas the Peterborough Chronicle , even though it is an earlier document , has lost most of these .
7 These concentrations are of the same order as those found in the plasma of patients taking 5-ASA preparations orally ( 10–15 µm ) and are far lower than those required to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase , lipoxygenase , or the binding of FMLP to neutrophils ( IC 5 10 , 6 , and >5 mM respectively ) or those found within the colonic lumen of these patients ( 10–20 mM ) .
8 Some of the project management variables are of the same type as the operations data , that is , numerical .
9 Only a few of the errors are of the same kind as spelling or typing errors .
10 Accordingly , futures contracts will not be investments of the same kind as debt securities or even contracts for differences , although SFA may perhaps agree that they are of the same kind as contracts for differences for this purpose ; in practice , however , any dealer who normally deals in futures contracts is usually likely to deal in contracts for differences in any event .
11 In Figure 4.13 LECTURER and SUBJECT are known as ‘ siblings ’ because they are of the same level but of different types .
12 You are of the same blood as us , sworn to protect Minginish .
13 The rubber liners are of the same material as used by farmers for irrigation lagoons and by local authorities for sailing and boating lakes .
14 ‘ I came , sir , to tell you we are of the same family as you . ’
15 The vaults of nave and aisles are of the same height and both are quadripartite .
16 The only exceptions to the sequential rule are inserts , which can be added in without affecting any of the other material provided that they are of the same length as the material which they are replacing .
17 ‘ You 're about the same size as me , skip …
18 You 're about the same size as your Aunt Molly … ’
19 They 're in the same drawer as the memos .
20 See if they 're in the same file and two different bits two places on the file .
21 do it the same time because we 're in the same class and speak to all the same people and we 'd get all the same results
22 Well if you 're on the same bill as him , well could always just ask him .
23 We 're on the same side and you know and I know that some of the troops are gon na find that , I , my opinion is that some of the troops will find that hard going for eleven weeks unless they know exactly what the hell they 're supposed to be doing in
24 I think , though , ’ the Doctor said , eyes twinkling , ‘ we 'll be able to persuade them that you 're on the same side as the rest of us . ’
25 ‘ But I see you 're on the same errand as myself . ’
26 that Mary er Mary 's da , one of Mary 's daughters and one of Christine 's daughters , they 're at the same college or something , they 're big friends !
27 Moreover , historians who are teaching computer methods are under the same pressures as their counterparts in humanities computing departments to justify their activities .
28 Do I , she asked herself , imagine that because I have lost a man I am in the same category as spotty Betty ?
29 ‘ I am in the same case as you , ’ said the abbot , and smiled .
30 The bed and bedhead are from the same era and are made of brass .
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