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

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1 I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany .
2 It was embarrassing , the way he kept on about her being the same as she was twenty years ago .
3 There are procedures to be gone through which were the same as for Mrs Thatcher 's proposal
4 Likewise , in He 's meeting his teacher , his would be translated by the appropriate case form of svojlsvoja provided the referent of his is the same as the referent of he ; otherwise the pronoun used is jego .
5 But this too has problems , some of which are the same as with a statutory cash ratio :
6 I have this day killed rather an extraordinary Bird , and one that you will recollect , at least there is every probability of its being the same ; you will remember the large Snow White Petrel ( a variety of the black species ) which followed us nearly all the way from the Cape to Tasman 's Head and which I was so desirous of procuring without effecting my purpose .
7 It annoyed her that , despite everything that had been said and done between them , and which obviously had meant absolutely nothing to him , since his attitude towards her was the same as it had ever been , she still found it difficult to control her emotions in his presence .
8 She was the first television celebrity he had met in the flesh , and he still could not quite believe the woman who had been sitting in front of him was the same one he had watched so regularly on the box .
9 I think they just sort of it 's the same thing in a different order .
10 Nevertheless the form of it was the same , there was a , would you buy that one Kirsty that there was a
11 One day he had asked his parents if the Wrath eagles were the greatest of the golden eagles , and after a long pause his mother said , ‘ No eagle is greater than another , all of us are the same wherever we come from and whatever kind we are .
12 All of us are the same .
13 ‘ We 'll none of us be the same again , ’ she said .
14 ‘ I do not think any of us be the same , ’ said Heinrich , frowning .
15 FA yesterday and it looks like me getting tickets from them is the same chance like the famous snowball in hell — i might settle for a new video player instead — in fact i still have got almost all of WC'90 on video — pictures from — all — games — and complete games from the 1/8 finals and onwards — including the England-Kamerun game which is quite a favorite .
16 Inside it 's the same , but different , he bounces , but like light bounces .
17 She looked at Peter , gravely answering the teasing of one of the lovers , and wondered if what she felt for him was the same quality of feeling that her parents had known and relied upon .
18 Musicians and artists to them are the same as tramps and winos , whereas , in a place like Germany , musicians are respected for their occupation . ’
19 The variation in name appears to be the major difference between the two types of minor authorities : the functions allocated to them are the same .
20 But the evidence on which he should base his advice to me is the same evidence on which it would have been appropriate for me to form my own judgment .
21 My reply to him is the same as the one that I gave the right hon. Member for Llanelli ( Mr. Davies ) , in which I said that VAT registrations had increased by 25 per cent .
22 Provided that an object is conceived to be real , reactions to it are the same in kind whether one happens to be perceiving or imagining it ; and if in the latter case one reacts less strongly , that is because one is also less aware of it .
23 These two half-villages were at one time in rivalry and even now , I noticed , each has its own war memorial even if the names carved on it are the same for both .
24 I mean come on it 's the same ball game .
25 If it was flat on it was the same because he 's got to go right through to the sline before he could get anything you see ?
26 He sees little difference between acting on stage and screen : ‘ It seems to be the same internal life that you try to discover in a character and the way you go about it is the same .
27 It was about it was the same as I 'd probably got if I 'd have gone to the pit at fourteen . .
28 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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