Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instructions for the risk rating and the scale used were the same as those used for Study 2 . |
| 2 | The selection criteria used were the same for all patients — namely , each patient was individually assessed with respect to general fitness for function of the anal sphincter . |
| 3 | The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through . |
| 4 | When the recipe called for a sprig of ‘ bruised thyme ’ it added a further twenty minutes while he and Kate deliberated as to whether bruised was the same as battered with a knife handle , or meant merely rubbed between the forefinger and thumb . |
| 5 | In the case of the 1971 Etna eruption , the magma involved was the same basaltic one throughout , yet its behaviour was quite different in its de-gassed condition in the second phase from its original state in the first , when the eruption was mildly explosive . |
| 6 | And every single thing they found was the same . |
| 7 | Each random spot she tried was the same . |
| 8 | ‘ Pray tell Dr Heatherton that I called , ’ he said , but all the reply he received was the same cold , formal bow the daughter had made . |
| 9 | Bodie glanced up , but all he could see were the same madly flickering lines , and slowly moving blips . |
| 10 | The transport arranged was the same taxi-driver who had brought them from the airport . |
| 11 | The amount assessed was the same in respect of the same years . |
| 12 | ‘ One of the men involved was the same man who asked Anthony to contact MI5 in London when he was on holiday in Mallorca earlier this summer . ’ |
| 13 | The main issues discussed were the same as those for the hospitality seminar described above . |
| 14 | The principles out of which his remarks had arisen were the same as when he held high office . |
| 15 | Perhaps the only thing that Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath shared was the same Rada voice coach . |
| 16 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |
| 17 | First , the flat-rate contributions required were the same for each person . |
| 18 | Thus , as prices rose , the effective rate of duty fell : the amount yielded was the same , but it represented a smaller proportion of the value of the goods . |