Example sentences of "it was [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I in the past th Granville mentioned these letters that used to work their way down from on high which might have just been a , a bit of a twinkle in somebody 's eye with no money at all to spend on physical work but even so it was given the same status within the R C E's organization of five or ten years ago a a as an investment item was , it was almost authorized .
2 It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them .
3 To make matters worse a discount store had opened in the area and it was selling the same beds at £140 each .
4 On it was inscribed the same text in three different scripts — Egyptian hieroglyphic and demotic as well as , most importantly , Greek .
5 The spokesman said that 10 NPFL fighters had died in the Vahun incident , and that all bodies had been buried , but it was reported the same day that Taylor had ordered that the bodies should be exhumed .
6 It was reported the same day that the UN military commander in Somalia , Brig. -Gen .
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