Example sentences of "[pron] are [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 cos Edmund and I are the same age
2 The eggs , which are the same size as the adult male mite , take 3 to 4 days to hatch into the three-legged larva .
3 This is why people who are the same age as one another usually end up being friends because they are going through the same experiences simultaneously .
4 You are the same family as us .
5 There are the same number .
6 Although some children may be capable of finding there are the same number of things in two sets ( by matching ) , they may not be at all sure there are still the same number of the objects if one of the sets is differently arranged .
7 Taking one of a pair of identical towers and re-building in another form , e.g. helps the child towards the idea of invariance of number — there are the same number of blocks ‘ before ’ and ‘ after ’ although they look different .
8 There are the same number of galaxies as there are stars in any one galaxy .
9 I think it is helpful to think of the latter as debtor ( creditor-supplier ) agreements since this emphasizes the fact that in such agreements there is some connection between the creditor and the supplier : either they are the same person eg in the credit-sale , conditional sale , of HP agreement ; or there are business arrangements between them .
10 ‘ They wear similar clothes , and they are the same build and colouring when you come to think of it .
11 They are the same phenomenon as water seeming to appear on a dry English road on a sunny day .
12 Much of the literature on goals has linked recognition and power and concluded that they are the same goal set .
13 They are the same size , have the same green skin , and overall it would be hard to tell one from another were it not for their distinctive styles of dress and skin painting .
14 For the sake of graphic unity they are the same size as the blocks used elsewhere in this section .
15 Rigid plastic cisterns ( polypropylene ) have the advantage that they are the same size as the galvanised cisterns they replace .
16 Are you suggesting that he should replace McAllister because they are the same type of player ?
17 Sometimes , to show that learning is not forgotten , the two terms are run together in the phrase ‘ teaching and learning ’ , as if they are the same kind of activity with similar aims .
18 They are the same thing .
19 A B-tree is balanced , in other words the tree is symmetrical so that all paths through it are the same length , so all leaf nodes appear on the same level , and carry no information .
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