Example sentences of "[noun sg] were the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Hunter , one of the most eminent surgeons of the eighteenth century , was responsible for lending weight to the belief that syphilis and gonorrhoea were the same disease , as a result of a fateful experiment . |
| 2 | The varnished wood , pale cream paintwork and maroon fabric were the same as in her own cabin . |
| 3 | I wrote to the effect that I did indeed look forward to life with him , and that my guidelines for living were the same as his . |
| 4 | The sunken cheeks which emphasized his cheekbones , the thin tight-lipped mouth were the same but they merged with the Latin appearance — further highlighted by the cut of his lightweight suit . |
| 5 | They were convinced that equal allowances , financed out of general taxation so that the rich contributed more than the poor , should be given in all income groups because the responsibility of motherhood and the value of the child were the same whatever the status of the parents . |
| 6 | Loyalty and morality were the same thing to her . |
| 7 | If the conclusions from empirical studies employing different measures of return were the same , the definition of returns would not be an important issue . |
| 8 | It is not quite true that the currents of migration and urbanisation were the same . |
| 9 | He reminded Lanfranc of their early agreement that justice and truth were the same thing in different modes . |
| 10 | He concluded that , albeit the discretion he had under section 78 of the Act of 1984 might be wider than the discretion at common law , the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion was being exercised at common law or under the statute , that paragraph C10.1 had no application to the situation , and that admission of the challenged evidence would not have an adverse effect on the fairness of the trial within section 78 . |
| 11 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , in considering the discretion to exclude evidence on the ground of unfairness , it could not sensibly be judged by different standards depending on the source of the discretion , for the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion arose at common law or under section 78 of the Act of 1984 ; and that , since the judge had considered the operation including obtaining the fingerprints as a whole , the exercise of his discretion was not only not unreasonable but was correct ( post , pp. 234H — 235A , 236A ) . |
| 12 | There was , he added , powerful and overwhelming evidence to make the case that the three men stopped in the taxi were the same men at Primity Crescent and guilty of all the charges . |
| 13 | No two sides of its rough square were the same . |
| 14 | Day and night were the same thing in this place . |
| 15 | GVHD and antimicrobial prophylaxis were the same for all patients . |
| 16 | An election under para 21 , Sch 9 , FA 1981 to avoid a clawback of stock relief on a deemed cessation was not applicable , since neither the trade carried on nor the stock of that trade were the same before and after the dissolution of the partnership . |
| 17 | But the nagging thought remains — why ’ Yes ’ in London , but ’ No ’ in Devon if the patient and the clinical advice were the same ? |
| 18 | ‘ as if sex were the same for men and women ! ’ |
| 19 | But did you realise Marty Wilde was 17 when he hit stardom ; that Cliff Richard and Billy Fury were the same age if not younger ; that some of the singers and dancers on Jack Good 's ground-breaking ‘ Boy Meets Girl ’ and ‘ Oh Boy ’ shows were only 15 and 16 ? |
| 20 | His ingredients for success were the same as those of practically everyone connected with the series . |
| 21 | The tracking of patterns of communication in modern paper-based bureaucratic systems tended until recently to be fairly straight forward since the media of communication and storage were the same . |
| 22 | Mr Norris said standards applied in reaching the decision were the same as those used for all other major transport infrastructure projects . |
| 23 | They could be avoided only if the gravitational acceleration were the same everywhere . |
| 24 | The messages about the importance of using and sharing information were the same as those which emerged from the international comparisons of the NEDC and from the explanations of the work of TECs . |
| 25 | You would n't have caught the late French President doing that , even when being shot at , and my De Gaulle also wore spectacles all the time , but the nose and toothbrush moustache were the same . |
| 26 | Food and treatment were the same for paying and free patients . |
| 27 | The price of Vanguard cars did not fluctuate and the contract price and market price at the date of the buyer 's breach were the same . |
| 28 | But the words of the speech were the same if not the delivery . |
| 29 | Gaelic is Hebrew but no one knew this until Pitman invented shorthand and then without the vowels it was clear that Gaelic and Hebrew were the same . |
| 30 | The people who would fly a Virgin airline were the same young , mobile , relatively affluent people who had been buying records by Virgin artists in Virgin record stores for years . |