Example sentences of "were [verb] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | An old and enduring model of sexual difference , developed most powerfully and resiliently by Galen in the second century AD , had stressed the homologous nature of male and female reproductive organs ; women were said to have the same genitals as men , only inside rather than outside . |
2 | During the first half of the century efforts were made to extend the same technique to the various kinds of animals as well as plants , so that naturalists had access to a vast body of information about the geographical distribution of living things . |
3 | Sibelius and Stenhammar were shown setting the same text ( The Girl returned from meeting her lover ) with Stenhammar providing a sharp , sweet , highly contrasted little folkloric scena complete with sad introductory Schubertian piano tune . |
4 | Since both of us were going to meet the same plane , one of us was definitely going the wrong way . |
5 | The mutant enzymes were found to give the same ratio ( data not shown ) . |
6 | Five angraecoid species were found to share the same pollinator , Panogena lingens , but ethological and mechanical mechanisms apparently restrict interspecific pollination despite mixed pollen loads . |
7 | Former athletes who took no further exercise were found to have the same risk factor for a heart attack as those who had never been active . |
8 | It follows criticism that the authorities were failing to provide the same level of help for drug users which is available outside prison . |
9 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |