Example sentences of "[noun] [be] the same colour " in BNC.

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1 Men and women 's skin are the same colour ; white is scarcely used , and red in a strictly limited way : for linear adjuncts like wreaths , for blood from wounds , and for inscriptions on the background .
2 Her only other fashion rule is always to make sure her shoes and tights are the same colour , making her 5ft 5 inches seem to stretch up just a little further .
3 Or perhaps I could n't tell , blood being the same colour as the jersey , but there was no great wet patch .
4 Children often match the colours of their equipment , but sometimes the smallest spade is the same colour as the largest bucket and further conversation can be encouraged as they discover it is not always easier to fill a small bucket with a large spade , than to fill a large bucket with a small spade .
5 All the windows are the same colour .
6 If there is no alternative to using a foster mother whose natural litter is the same colour as the mice to be fostered great care must be taken to mark the fostered animals by toe clipping or all the natural young must be removed .
7 Is ‘ The sea appears to a viewer to be the same colour all over ’ simply an alternative way of saying ‘ The viewer is of the opinion that ( or judges that , or thinks that ) the sea is the same colour all over ? ’
8 The natural plaster was exactly the same colour as the pink in the brick , while the yellow in the brick was the same colour as the Rayburn , so it all started to pull together .
9 And assumably all the doors are the same colour .
10 His face was the same colour as that of the King when the royal cohort arrived from the palace .
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