Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five weeks later , on 13 November , Southey and Edith Fricker were secretly married in the same church , Southey setting off almost immediately afterwards to spend six months with his uncle in Portugal , leaving Edith behind . |
| 2 | Birth and death , the ultimate holding and letting go , were paradoxically present at the same moment . |
| 3 | Why they were so good and why they were so bad at the same time . ’ |
| 4 | Daimyo took most of their income in the form of rice , and warrior stipends , too , were normally payable in the same commodity . |
| 5 | The role of the officers — the vanguard of revolutionary education , exempt from the civilian controls which applied to electricity or water — seemed to have encouraged them in their belief that in their private capacities too officers were not subject to the same rules as civilians . |
| 6 | Resentful at being used as manual labourers , blacks then discovered that they were not entitled to the same pay increases as white troops because , as the War Office ruled , they were ‘ natives ’ . |
| 7 | While education was the single most significant activity the employers of Advanced Course students engaged in , when it came to job titles and the nature of the jobs the students were or would be doing , educational occupations were not dominant in the same way . |
| 8 | Inevitably , unintended pregnancies were more prevalent among the same groups . |
| 9 | If two different species showed the same coloration , this merely confirmed that they were both subject to the same orthogenetic trend . |
| 10 | Secret sales of property were also subject to the same lambasting . |