Example sentences of "was [verb] [art] same [noun] [prep] " 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 | The Beveridge report was to breathe the same spirit of optimism and confidence that long-standing problems could be tackled . |
| 3 | Dissident middle-ranking army officers staged a coup attempt in April , which was foiled the same day after heavy fighting [ see p. 37367 ] . |
| 4 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 5 | Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s . |
| 6 | Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s . |
| 7 | To make matters worse a discount store had opened in the area and it was selling the same beds at £140 each . |
| 8 | She was wearing the same sort of leather harness that the dragonriders had been wearing , but in her case it was much briefer . |
| 9 | She was born the same day in 1877 that Alexander Graham Bell launched his first telephone company and became a teacher when just 13 . |
| 10 | On Feb. 18 the North suspended the fourth round of Premiers ' talks which had been scheduled for Feb. 25-28 , but agreement was reached the same month on joint sports teams [ see p. 38010 ; see also pp. 38341 ; 38437 ; 38529 ; 38576 ] . |
| 11 | ‘ Laurence Taylor died at Stubbylee of Asiatic Cholera , having arrived from Liverpool only on Saturday last ; he was interred the same day at the old Baptist Chapel . ’ |
| 12 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 13 | Georgina was in her last year as a law student at Cambridge and was joining the same set of chambers where Victoria herself had trained before her marriage . |
| 14 | Although I was doing the same kind of of erm work . |
| 15 | At every level the lines of communication were with the central authority , not with the official who was doing the same job in the adjacent district . |
| 16 | George Mtafu , Malawi 's only neurosurgeon , was arrested the same month after refusing to apologise for challenging public criticisms of northern Malawians made by Life-President Banda . |
| 17 | If she was running the same company for Virgin , should n't she have some shareholding in it ? |
| 18 | As soon as I realised I told him it must stop , but the next thing I knew he was spouting the same fiction to a reporter . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On it was inscribed the same text in three different scripts — Egyptian hieroglyphic and demotic as well as , most importantly , Greek . |
| 21 | T his new economic process , assisted by an increasing effective demand , was to have the same impact on feudal manufacturing structures as it had in agriculture — it destroyed the old order of things . |
| 22 | But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different . |
| 23 | While much of the competition charged more for ‘ new skills ’ , for example in distributed computing , MMT 's policy , he said , was to charge the same rates for all types of expertise . |
| 24 | The trial was suspended the same day after the 19 defence lawyers walked out , and then postponed until July 12 . |
| 25 | William Hulbert offered Burghley 100 angels if he would get the post of customer at Bristol transferred to J. Dowlie , who had probably bought it from Hulbert ; Henry Goldingham promised £100 for the post of controller of the customs at Ipswich ; and Herbert Croft wrote that Richard Davis was offering the same amount for a judgeship in Wales . |