Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] the same " in BNC.

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1 Bodie glanced up , but all he could see were the same madly flickering lines , and slowly moving blips .
2 This is not simple mimicry , which would only entail being the same bright colour as a distasteful species .
3 Hakon has disappeared , although the three earls who do sign are the same and in the same order as in S 963 , while the latter 's eight bishops and four abbots are now six and three respectively .
4 If you are unfortunate enough to be faced with such a situation then the only responsible advice I can suggest is the same as that offered to nursing students .
5 ‘ I have come to the conclusion , ’ said Betty , who had also been thinking , ‘ that the reason Beuno does n't marry is the same as the reason Elizabeth wo n't have children .
6 I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them .
7 Life would not have been the same without them , nor would it be now , considering the lasting impression they made in our minds .
8 I wonder whether the umpire 's attitude would have been the same if the offender had been his opponent , the comparatively unknown Grant Connell .
9 There was nothing to suggest that had the evidence been excluded that result would necessarily have been the same .
10 They must have been the same year , for their birthdays were only two months apart .
11 Ann , in 1913 , would have been the same age as Edward 's mother and , from family hearsay , Ann 's sentiments resemble closely the practical , optimistic piety of Mary Elizabeth Thomas .
12 Perhaps the end would have been the same in any case .
13 They could have been the same young Russians we had met 4,000 miles away in Fairbanks only the day before .
14 Maurice Dodd 's famous cartoon strip The Perishers just would n't have been the same without Boot
15 Will I always have been the same sex ?
16 If the neutrons had been produced by thermonuclear fusion in a stationary plasma the neutrons ' energy spectra would have been the same in both cases , peaked at 2.45 MeV .
17 But dad Craig said : ‘ It must have been the same bug . ’
18 ‘ The Palace deal nearly went through but it would not have been the same as this , ’ said Phelan .
19 However , after paying travel expenses her take-home pay would have been the same .
20 Must have been the same time I did my leg in .
21 Would the impact have been the same had the final , in this particular instance , been anywhere but France ?
22 Would it have been the same if it had been collected by anyone else ?
23 But even if the Verulamium defences were post-Hadrianic , it may not have been the same operation which provided for such an in-significant place as Great Casterton .
24 It so happened that two different remedies were sought in this case , but the decision on the issue of standing would have been the same even if the applicant had sought two declarations in different terms .
25 This may have been the same object as that lent by Gaston I to Clement V. The pope agreed to keep the talisman safely and to excommuni-cate anyone else who attempted to use it .
26 This conclusion is devoid of party political implication ; the situation might easily have been the same if the parties in opposition and government had been transposed .
27 But in fact it would not have been the same mistake .
28 What we will say , if we keep clearly in mind that everything might have been the same up to the instant when the bar came out , and no bar might have come out is that nothing caused the bar to come out .
29 " It would have been the same any time we came , " said Fiver .
30 And if she 'd married Vincent Van Gogh it would have been the same story .
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