Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I suspect that the Opposition are in the same muddle on this as on every other issue — including taxation , over the past three weeks .
2 The bed and bedhead are from the same era and are made of brass .
3 In sections 6.2 and 6.3 it was established that time-dependent potential differences across the secondary and primary windings of a unity-coupled , lossless transformer are in the same ratio as the turns ratio between these windings .
4 It makes a triangle with Beta and 16 Libræ ( 4.5 ) ; using × 7 , Delta and Beta are in the same field , but Beta and 16 are not .
5 ‘ The extra court sitting is on the same day as the other hearings so we have to rush between the courts .
6 Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing .
7 Well , really , how to make a cup of tea is like the same thing as making a cup of coffee first you have to take the kettle to the tap , turn the tap on and fill up the kettle , then take the kettle back to the ma , erm , where you got it from and plug it into the wa wall .
8 It might be worth recalling Walter Benjamin 's view that there is always a verso and recto to history — each document of civilisation is at the same time a document of barbarism .
9 None the less , what the United States data imply is that the upward trend in recorded crime is in the same direction as actual victimization , although at a slower rate .
10 With loop-in wiring , the wires are labelled carefully , and drawn up into the space above the ceiling , where they should be reconnected in a junction box , in exactly the same way that they were connected in the ceiling rose , and a cable taken from this junction box to the light fitting through the hole in the ceiling ( if the new light fitting is in the same place ) .
11 I ca n't believe the review is of the same show I saw .
12 The original deal was for the same time and same sum , but the difference now is that the new contract covers rugby only for the age bracket between 16 and 18 .
13 The bedroom was on the same level as the terrace , the small sitting-room and the kitchen , and so she waited for the sound of another door or footsteps on the stone staircase down to the entrance hall .
14 The cutlery was from the same state factory and had the same design and so did the plates , the menu , and the waiters .
15 She wondered if he ever dropped it ; she could sense that , however fluently he talked , however intently he listened — and he listened very intently — his mind was at the same time pursuing some other parallel track .
16 ‘ But the brother-in-law was in the same line of business . ’
17 Sources from both clubs said they understood the new bid was from the same source , but an Argyll spokesman refused to confirm or deny that the company was behind the bid .
18 Version 5 however , is expected to include a facility to ‘ knit from the screen ’ , so if your computer and knitting machine are in the same room , you may find this more convenient than printing on to paper .
19 Nevertheless , if we adjust the above findings , they suggest that almost 40% of the public feel that mentally handicapped people should be segregated from the rest of society ; around the same proportion would dislike the idea of a mentally handicapped child being at the same school as their child and around 70% feel that mentally handicapped people should not be allowed to marry and have children .
20 Even under such conditions there may be cases where a weigher , from his own observations , is not satisfied that the vehicle is in the same condition as when tared .
21 ‘ I once heard her say ’ , Hortensia went on , ‘ that a large boy is about the same weight as an Olympic hammer and therefore he 's very useful for practising with . ’
22 The bow is of the same openwork trifoliate design but has a additional small know mounted on the top .
23 We feel that , for an Englishman , to ask this question is at the same time to answer it .
24 Niort is about the same distance by the parallel N150 .
25 On Feb. 1 the Turkish ambassador in Athens was temporarily recalled and two days later the Turkish consul-general in Komotini was expelled for referring to the Moslems in the area as fellow countrymen , while the Greek consul-general was on the same day expelled from Istanbul .
26 The hijacker was about the same age as him , but not so big .
27 A. Discus would normally begin to display courtship at the age of nine months , so it is possible that all your Discus are of the same sex .
28 Frank had accused me before of ‘ messing up ’ the relay , and had told me that the rest of the team were of the same opinion .
29 Advocates of localization were in the same position as the explorers of the sixteenth century ; they knew there was something out there but they did n't know where it was or what it might look like .
30 The one window in the kitchen and the two in the main room were on the same end wall .
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