Example sentences of "[noun] were [v-ing] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kindred associations in the funeral industry were feeling the same . |
| 2 | Yes , oh aye I Yes , we You had to measure , and in those days , the councils were grouped in what they called Assessment Committee Areas , and each were wor making sure the other areas were using the same sort of basis . |
| 3 | Within a generation or two aristocratic Christians were pursuing the same interests as their pagan ancestors . |
| 4 | Jehan nodded , and he saw that others in the room were doing the same . |
| 5 | In fact there was no paradox , for it was the theoretical assumption that speech and writing were fulfilling the same functions and the inability to recognise their separate characters that made it possible to use one as the model for the other . |
| 6 | Other right-wing intellectuals were making the same point . |
| 7 | The main anxiety about diet which I heard expressed , at least by the administration , was that with the introduction of ‘ fast food ’ facilities , prisoners were showing the same dietary self-destructive tendencies as young teenagers traditionally have done . |
| 8 | Almost as many men died behind the lines as did from going over the top , an old sergeant told Charlie , and it did n't help to know that the Germans were suffering the same problems a few hundred yards away . |
| 9 | A team of over 100 scientists was working to produce a weapon of almost inconceivable power , ‘ their moral scruples overcome by the fascination of the research and the haunting fear that the Germans were following the same path ’ . |
| 10 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 11 | ‘ Although Chris and I had divorced , we still played together , standing three feet from each other , and Lindsey and Stevie were doing the same number . |
| 12 | Other young fellows were doing the same thing ; we used to meet and recognize each other and compare notes — and pretty scathing we were at times with what we found . |
| 13 | She saw that Defries and Johannsen were attempting the same manoeuvre . |
| 14 | When the Muslim– Druze revolt against Chamoun began with fierce street fighting in Beirut , the Christians noted that the Muslims were using the same pan-Arab rhetoric as Nasser . |
| 15 | As , yet again , Britain started its mopping up operation , tired rescue workers , tearful home owners and others were asking the same question : Whatever caused the heavens to open ? |
| 16 | The conductor pushed the door open and peered up the train to see that others were doing the same . |
| 17 | The others were doing the same jobs they had during peacetime : baker , steward , purser , electrician , storekeeper . |
| 18 | On a pure labour law test , on the other hand , it might be said that the fact that the employees were doing the same kind of work on the same machines should be enough to amount to a transfer of a business . |
| 19 | LONG before we started telling naive people to take what they were told with a pinch of salt , the Romans were issuing the same advice in the form of ‘ cum grano salis ’ , which was actually a mild pun . |