Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shuttle was n't much like a London bus in shape , but it was about the same size . |
| 2 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 3 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
| 4 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
| 5 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
| 6 | While JCI diversified its interests in South Africa , it was at the same time increasing its shareholding in Johnson Matthey in the UK . |
| 7 | It was on the same wall as the door , to the left of it and just beside the telephone . |
| 8 | He would always remember handing over the final payment , because it was on the same day as the first big aeroplane raid over London and he spent most of that night hiding under his father 's bed , with both Sal and Kitty clinging on to him for dear life . |
| 9 | I reali I realized it was on the same day Mark . |
| 10 | It was on the same road we are following now . ’ |
| 11 | Not all of these rays will have left the object when it was of the same size . |
| 12 | ‘ And oh , what a coincidence that it was to the same part of the country ! ’ she butted in sarcastically . |
| 13 | So it was to the same mortuary as Jacob that the undertaker 's van took the two coffins . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 15 | I believe that , as we come out of the recession , we shall find that British industry is much stronger than it was during the same period at the beginning of the 1980s , and that it will prosper mightily during the remainder of the 1990s . |
| 16 | It was in the same year that Culture and Anarchy first appeared that the Charity Organisation Society was founded , to busy itself with the task of classifying and purifying the demoralised lower orders , and to sift out the ‘ deserving ’ from the ‘ undeserving ’ poor . |
| 17 | Coincidentally , it was in the same year that the first supersonic airliner took flight and the first channel hover-ferry service was inaugurated — quite a year for fast machines — quite rightly dubbed then , as being new ! |
| 18 | Yesterday , Mr Dubcek 's name was chanted at least as loudly as it was in the same square over 21 years ago . |
| 19 | Yesterday , Mr Dubcek 's name was chanted at least as loudly as it was in the same square over 21 years ago . |
| 20 | With a shudder she realized that it was in the same block of buildings as Bartholomew Close . |
| 21 | It was the fastest hundred in a Test match in England since the heady days of 1981 , and as a gambler 's last throw , it was in the same class as Botham 's 149 . |
| 22 | It is interesting that it was in the same period as that of the large-scale production of holy prints on paper that the ( moveable ) canvas began to replace the wall-fresco as the most common base material for painting . |
| 23 | ‘ It was in the same place with the same registrar but this time everyone was there , including me . ’ |
| 24 | It was 1852 before freight receipts exceeded passenger receipts and it was around the same time that the railways overtook the canals to become the principal freight carriers . |