Example sentences of "[noun pl] were the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Death or disappearance ’ — the words were the same as in Doctor Jekyll 's will . |
| 2 | You 're not alone in your embarrassment — most of your friends will know exactly what you 're going through , having been through it themselves when their kids were the same age . |
| 3 | No. 45 had no carpet on the floor , otherwise the two halls were the same . |
| 4 | All the parties were the same ( such cynicism from our beautiful people , I thought ) , although , someone droned , ‘ Maybe anarchy would be alright if you could make it work . ’ |
| 5 | You know , my other two other branches were the same , I 'm doing a free appointment at , I 'm at at the moment , we 're supposed to get a two-weekly , when you do a free appointment , they 're supposed to sit down with every two weeks and tell you how you 're doing . |
| 6 | When we met I saw that his eyes were the same , soft and luminous ; and there was no constraint between us . |
| 7 | His eyes were the same amber-brown as his son 's , but looked lighter , as his face was more tanned . |
| 8 | I did n't recognise my sister at first when she opened the door , she 'd cut her hair , but the eyes were the same , there were small creases at the sides , the skin puffy , roughened by crying . |
| 9 | He did it again when , leaving her question hanging , he stepped closer , studied her scraped-back hairstyle , then , without so much as a by-your-leave , whipped her glasses from her nose — the better , it seemed , to check that her green eyes were the same green he had looked into during the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 10 | ‘ We found evidence that some women received lower pay increases than men even when their performance ratings were the same . ’ |
| 11 | The report went on to point out that these goals were the same for all children , although some children will realise them ( all or in part ) at a much slower pace than others . |
| 12 | But the effects were the same : an untrammelled credit explosion . |
| 13 | Some of the English chroniclers supposed King John to have been formally deposed by the pope , for the effects were the same . |
| 14 | Mendeleev resisted evolutionary speculations , and also refused to speculate on whether the chemical atoms composing the elements were the same as the physical atoms imagined by natural philosophers , the ultimate building-blocks . |
| 15 | Many clients became disillusioned with search in the 1970s , receiving some indifferent service and assuming that all headhunters were the same ; this view is rapidly disappearing in the 1980s , although many search practices current during the Big Bang gave search a bad name , such as wholesale movement of trading and broking teams , for instance . |
| 16 | The refugees were the same age as he was when he escaped from East Germany 37 years ago . |
| 17 | Overall , with the possible exception of Planning Applications , most references were subject-based , and , although in broad terms certain subject matters were the same , at a working level the information needs were totally dissimilar , reflected in the manner of structuring the reference codes . |
| 18 | The next two days were the same ; Sunday they spent in bed , and Mrs Patten went out to her sister 's . |
| 19 | The UDF claimed that those tolerating local opposition to Turkish classes were the same people who had instigated the repression of Turkish-speakers after 1984 . |
| 20 | Elizabeth Young and Simone Tramontana for suggesting that the two bystanders were the same height before one of them shot the fall and all the people who spotted breakouts on the way down . |
| 21 | The buildings were the same kind as where her faceless father had been . |
| 22 | But even though week after week the jokes were the same , we always laughed . |
| 23 | At the Dollis Hill factory the conditions were the same as elsewhere at Grunwick . |
| 24 | ‘ They said the conditions were the same for all teams and that they wanted to stay on and entertain the crowd ’ , said Sevens rules committee chairman Dave Crosbie . |
| 25 | And yet , from a , any visitor from a , another country or another planet would notice much more the things were the same , than the things were different . |
| 26 | They must have done some good ( Cipolla points out that their principles were the same as those of the great 19th-century sanitary reformers such as Sir Edwin Chadwick ) , and yet there seems to be no way of telling from the surviving evidence whether lives were saved as a result . |
| 27 | What tipped the balance was a decision by some 3,000 Protestant electors to desert the Ulster Unionist candidate — for whom all nationalists were the same — and vote tactically in favour of the non-violent nationalism of the Social Democratic and Labour party victor , Joe Hendron . |
| 28 | Mortality in the first three months was greater in the oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation group ( 20% v 1% ) but by two years the survival curves were the same and thereafter there was no difference in mortality . |
| 29 | Median presentation dates were the same for small-crested and accentuated-crested models . |
| 30 | Members of Wales PPA quickly realised that these published beliefs were the same as their own , and that here was perhaps an opportunity to avail themselves of much-needed funding to establish support systems which would enable families to take their rightful place in the local playgroup or mother and toddler group . |