Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [prep] the same [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the factory towns and the mines were not far off as they were in the South , and the northern peasant was used to a hard life ; he was not forced to stay on the land as a pauper , since employers and employed were in the same economic difficulties and regarded each other as of nearly the same status . |
| 2 | There had been sporadic contact even before the 1850s treaties , and subsequent relations had been on the same unequal basis as those with the other powers . |
| 3 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 4 | He conferred with the Anglican Bishop ( who had been in the same Japanese POW camp as he ) ; and spent hours with a crowd of young Rhodesians , black and white , who are now in action with us . |
| 5 | A CLASSIC Rolls-Royce limousine which had been in the same Scottish family for 60 years made £21,275 at a Sotheby 's weekend car sale at the Royal Air Force museum , Hendon , North London . |