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

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1 The result has been the same each time .
2 Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers .
3 Would the result have been the same if the original agreed price for the carpentry had been a fair price ?
4 Is it because of our hard water in this area do you think , or would that machine have been the same anywhere in the country .
5 Our lives have been the same as our fathers ' and their fathers ' before them .
6 She knew very well what they had been at ; she and Patten had been the same , when they were young .
7 If the English handicapper appears to have been lenient with Barnbrook Again , the Irish handicapper has been the same with Morley Street .
8 The pattern has been the same for one Big Idea after another .
9 Would the impact have been the same had the final , in this particular instance , been anywhere but France ?
10 On every Sunday previously the pattern had been the same .
11 If you find the same language in distant countries , you may be sure that the inhabitants have been the same people , that is to say , if you find the languages a good deal the same ; for a word here and there being the same will not do . ’
12 The sum has been the same since 1983 , when the Government launched its Enterprise Allowance Scheme — better known in some circles as the Enterprise Allowance Scam or Enquiring Artists ' Support .
13 And the physical symptoms had been the same ; a raging thirst , her body parched and shrivelled , her mouth dry and sour as if infected with her own breath .
14 Would the impact of the Davis Cup have been the same had the final been anywhere but France ?
15 Dan had been the same .
16 If Rose 's experience had been the same , he thought kindly , she would need one of his ribs to stiffen her .
17 But since then our calendar year has been the same as the solar year .
18 No one in her family had been the same since Anthony 's funeral .
19 If its percentage of second votes had been the same as the overall percentage of the constituency votes it then received , it would in 1983 have been guaranteed 165 seats instead of the 23 it actually won , and 147 instead of 22 in 1987 .
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