Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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1 | And was it any wonder she 'd fled , if she 'd been subjected to the same bullying and threats by an earlier generation of de Rocheforts ? |
2 | The third round of talks , in May , had been halted over the same issue [ see p. 38191 ] . |
3 | From the beginning Jarrad had been run by the same directors as Jesner and run in good faith in what the directors perceived to be in the family 's interest . |
4 | How is it that you do n't know and in your letter to me you said this trust did not know where that money had been withdrawn at the same time Andrew director of Eastern Arts was quite happy to write to me to tell me why he was quite happy to tell the press over the phone why how is it the trust did n't know ? |
5 | At the former , stone-robbing had effectively removed the crucial junction on the steeply sloping ground ; at the gate , it remained unclear whether the wall was already in existence or whether it had been constructed at the same time . |
6 | In all patients a quadruple loop ( W ) pouch had been constructed by the same surgeon ( WHFT ) according to standard techniques . |
7 | The body of Luis Eurico Teixeira Lisboa , a left-wing intellectual , had been discovered in the same graveyard under a false name in 1979 . |
8 | It was after the Indian team had begun their experiments that they learned about Jones and how his experiments had been motivated by the same ideas as Chatterjee had had . |
9 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
10 | This residue has no doubt lost the shape of dividends , share warrants or the like but so would the entire income of the fund if it had been lodged in the same way with the Respondent 's bankers . |
11 | His return had been delayed by the same blizzard that had almost prevented Judith leaving Manhattan , and put him beyond the deadline Klein had set . |
12 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
13 | Although the worst had almost happened , namely he had been threatened with the same fate as Jesus , he did not falter from the task of planting the church in Jerusalem and then in regions beyond . |
14 | I looked for my favourite character , only to find he had been replaced by the same bitch who has taken over Lloyd 's job . |
15 | For the first time Isabel wondered if those airs had been caused by the same stupid helplessness which seemed to be gripping her . |
16 | If the non-transferable votes had been transferred in the same proportion there would have been insufficient transfers to Donnelly to ensure his election . |
17 | The faculty denied having discriminated against her and said she had been treated in the same way as all others seeking membership of the bar . |
18 | A total of 543 Palestinian " collaborators " and 103 Israelis had been killed during the same period . |
19 | Armenia 's nuclear power station was closed in February 1989 because of earthquake fears , while construction of nuclear plants in Krasnodar and the Crimea had been terminated for the same reason , after popular protests and construction of several reactors of the Chernobyl type had also been halted . |
20 | Yet she felt , unable to help herself , a certain irrational joyfulness , as though an end and a beginning had been reached at the same time . |
21 | We discovered a strange fortuity : her mother and my father had been born in the same town of Dumfries and , moreover , we had a marriage connection — her cousin had married my cousin 's cousin ! |
22 | Even more important was that the jungle habitat had been protected for the same reason . |
23 | He recalled the incident in the boiler room when both Pearce and he had been assailed by the same noises that Beaton had heard . |
24 | The four named officers had been arrested at the same time as Beattie and had already appeared before ‘ Diplock ’ tribunals and been released . |
25 | And she explained to Sarah how they and the Thorntons had been married in the same month in 1839 and had all four spent that Christmas together . |
26 | Valenzuela 's only real friend was another recruit named Bratti Cornejo who had been drafted at the same time . |
27 | Ferguson thought the Scottish striker might be forced to withdraw from the trip to Berne because he feared he had been afflicted by the same illness which has hit more than a dozen of the Old Trafford squad . |
28 | I felt as though I had been reincarnated in the same lifetime . |
29 | James had stated in the prologue to ‘ The Black Jacobins ’ that he had written the book with the independence of Africa in mind and he had considered it more than fortuitous that a number of other books by black writers had been published around the same time . |
30 | For nearly ten years a jungle war of incredible savagery had been fought over the same jungle tracks and expanses of savanna grassland where a decade later the Americans would lose to the Vietcong . |