Example sentences of "are [det] [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 PAHs are some of the same group of cancer-causing substances that are found in cigarette smoke , oil and vehicle exhaust fumes .
2 They are all about the same size — only a few centimetres long — with roughly the same shape , slim , approximately rectangular , with high foreheads and small pouting mouths .
3 ‘ They are all blonde and are all about the same size and although none of them are identical you would know they are from the same family .
4 ‘ And they are all about the same age and they are all boys who have never been in trouble with the police , but the people who taught them and their family were not exactly surprised at what happened . ’
5 Whether man or beast , we are all of the same essence , we all have a soul .
6 subordinates in a work group are all of the same quality or type ; and
7 As they are all of the same family , could I breed from an Oranda and a Blue Carp ?
8 ‘ Your three specialists are all of the same opinion . ’
9 There is a sense — the most important of all — in which Homer and Dante and Milton , Aeschylus and Shakespeare are all of the same age or none .
10 S Adams and son ( Derriaghy ) , Spence bros ( Lisburn ) and M Portis ( Lisburn ) are all on the same yard .
11 ‘ I have a part to play , but so do they , and we are all on the same team . ’
12 We are all on the same side and are accountable to each other .
13 The use of sleeving on the l.e.d. wires ensures that they are all at the same height above the board : Also make sure that they are in line when viewed along the length of the sequence .
14 In the same way we are all under the same delusions in one form or another .
15 Suppose that I am supplied with a sequence of electrons which have been prepared in such a way that they are all in the same state of motion .
16 We are all in the same boat out here .
17 We are all in the same boat .
18 It is always nice to be introduced to these meetings because although we are all in the same boat , it 's still a bit daunting walking into a strangers house .
19 In consequence no particular facet of the policy is seen to be peculiar to any one Division ; what is so for the profession generally is also true for the building surveyor ; we are all in the same boat .
20 I wish I could tell him that we are all in the same boat .
21 She remembered him saying : ‘ We are all in the same boat . ’
22 The past is a distant , receding coastline , and we are all in the same boat .
23 My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle .
24 ‘ Before you say it 's a forgery , ’ he went on , ‘ let me assure you that we are all after the same thing .
25 On the opposite side of the courtyard there are more of the same variety , planted in 1968 .
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