Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other countries where the British breeds were prominent the same trend was often followed , until it was realised , in the USA and South Africa in particular , that the cattle were becoming functionally inefficient and that the dwarfing gene was spreading dangerously within the three British beef breeds . |
| 2 | The titles of my lectures were all the same , but my name appeared beneath only four out of the five of them . |
| 3 | He had been told that he did n't know the first thing about it , that the young were all the same , destructive and careless , that Mrs Irving set a value on her privacy . |
| 4 | If the receptors for acetylcholine were all the same , agents which blocked any of them were expected to block all of them . |
| 5 | Then it was a frightful job because the sergeants were all the same . |
| 6 | They were all the same . |
| 7 | No one had ever called me a little ‘ blackie ’ in Kingston , because we were all the same . |
| 8 | They were of three different heights so in conversation with Julian I asked if they were all the same height or if some were taller than the others . |
| 9 | Sarah was watching and listening so I asked her if she thought they were all the same . |
| 10 | They were all the same — never a thought for anything but their own interests . |
| 11 | They were all the same , when it came down to it . |
| 12 | They were all the same , all noise and sparrow shit , and if the man only knew the idiot scene he cut … |
| 13 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
| 14 | Obviously , we can not explain these very striking variations in behaviour via biology , since the people in the various societies were all the same biologically . |
| 15 | The posters on the walls were all the same old ones of 1950s legionnaires in tanks looking at the desert through binoculars , or cutting their way through the jungle with machetes . |
| 16 | If we four were representatives of our platoon , it was understandable that the staff were having a tough time of it , pretending that we were all the same — physically , socially and morally . |
| 17 | Furthermore , although the domain-specific corpora were all the same length , due to variations in the type:token ratio the resultant dictionaries varied greatly in size ( from 3,960 entries to 7,748 entries ) . |
| 18 | Frith made all the animals and birds , but when he first made them they were all the same . |
| 19 | They were all the same size , and pushed at regular intervals into the soil . |
| 20 | Briefly she looked for Liban , but the faces were all the same — white as fire , empty as death . |
| 21 | They were all the same . |
| 22 | If they were all the same colour you 'd think But because you 've become so used to seeing the green and ambers and the reds |
| 23 | Before when we had our other range they were all the same price , which was wrong really because it 's a lot easier to get lavender than it is to get rose . |
| 24 | The trees , bushes and fields were all the same dun shade , as though a thin layer of dirt had been sprayed everywhere , and wherever you looked there seemed to be mud or rotting leaves or bare , dead-looking branches . |
| 25 | It was not naturally as smart a match as the failed one of the summer , but the reactions were all the same gratifying . |
| 26 | The bookplates were all the same . |
| 27 | The chairs were all the same in these places ; in every Social Security office and Job Centre he 'd ever been in . |
| 28 | Not exactly the same as each other ; he 'd seen different types , but they were all the same types . |
| 29 | Oh , they were all the same , men , even the best of them . |
| 30 | She was thinking of the periodic visits she had made to her father ; they were all the same ; their conversations could have been scripted : |