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

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1 The fact that all the acts are the same couple of blokes is just the way it is in modern dance .
2 The forces that permit , and even promote , smaller corporate entities are the same forces that permit , and even promote , smaller national entities : flexibility , accountability , motivation of the individual , innovation , freer world trade in both the physical and capital markets , and lower thresholds for economies of scale .
3 So it looks as though hpGRF and hypothalamic GRF are the same thing in these species , and it should be only a matter of time before it is from the hypothalamus as well .
4 ‘ B ’ houses are the same standard , but not on the seafront .
5 For many people , time and money are the same thing .
6 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 .
7 Moreover , we showed , in a small study , that non-conservers of length will say that a one-inch and a ten-inch stick are the same length so long as their tips are on a level .
8 In this respect the press are often one step ahead of the police in making explicit some possible connections : ‘ Although police are keeping an open mind , it seems likely the anonymous phone caller and the darkly-clothed assailant are the same man ’ ( Daily Mail ) .
9 And you know they ca n't go , this one ca n't go earlier than that one because we 've got the sequence and so if we got through these steps , I think that those steps are the same steps that we go through on any project .
10 However , neither should it be assumed that grade mix and skill mix are the same thing .
11 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 .
12 The criteria used to judge the centre 's readiness are the same ones applied , under devolved responsibility from SCOTVEC , by Directors of Education to assess authority centres .
13 They are utterances in which saying the words and doing the action are the same thing : the function is created by the form .
14 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 .
15 He could n't keep pretending that Viola and Eleanor were the same person because Viola 's photo was signed .
16 Or perhaps I could n't tell , blood being the same colour as the jersey , but there was no great wet patch .
17 John Hunter , one of the most eminent surgeons of the eighteenth century , was responsible for lending weight to the belief that syphilis and gonorrhoea were the same disease , as a result of a fateful experiment .
18 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 .
19 ( A favourite way of disposing of demons is the same trick as is used to deal with miracles : assign them to the New Testament era , where they can do no harm or cause any embarrassment . )
20 So you 're going to follow through in position one , and erm if the situation allows it and there 's not much traffic on the roundabout and you can see that the exit side is the same width as the entry side , is there anything wrong in following round in that position ?
21 You then add together all the contributions from all the different paths and — hey presto ! — the result is the same probability amplitude which you would have calculated by the more pedestrian procedure of solving the Schrödinger equation .
22 Harvey Newbegin is the same sign as me : Gemini .
23 This circle self-inverts ; that is , its inverse is the same circle .
24 This proposition , admittedly , is not without its difficulties when the sovereign is the same person in two or more realms where her ministers may tender divergent or opposing advice on the same subject ; but so far the possibilities involved in these different capacities of the sovereign have not caused embarrassment in practice .
25 Yeah , the trouble with the steering lock is the same Ford or an Astra .
26 But of greater importance for the social anthropologists themselves is that in many societies the distinction between biological kinship and sociological kinship is quite clearly recognized and the degree of their identification or dissociation is a matter of formal rules : " Copulation and marriage are not the same thing " or : " Copulation and marriage are the same thing " as the case may be .
27 First , look at the mark between the central pair , and note that top and bottom are the same size and are both vertical .
28 Their measurements are less than those of standard ovens , although built-in models are the same width as built-in conventional ovens .
29 In reality , small incorporated businesses where the members and directors are the same individuals are not run on quite such formal lines anyway .
30 For example both children knew that bricks A and B were the same size , but , when viewed through portholes in a box , A looked bigger to one child and B looked bigger to the partner .
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