Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adj] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just a party , and parties are all the same . |
| 2 | It takes ages because the garment has to be done in sections — it 's much easier if the shapes are all the same size . ’ |
| 3 | You parents are all the same . |
| 4 | This trademarked torrent , and the advertising avalanche that comes with it , has only bolstered the belief that brands are all the same . |
| 5 | The titles of my lectures were all the same , but my name appeared beneath only four out of the five of them . |
| 6 | whites studying blacks , you know , all those other kinds of imbalances in , in psychology in the social sciences erm which might be interesting erm cos like Guy sometimes says about erm when he was er talking to some er deaf people , well perhaps not talking 's the right word but communicating with some deaf people about their , about their problems , I mean this bloke said you psychologists are all the same you just think that deaf people need cochlea implement |
| 7 | In terms of boat configuration and sail selection , deck layouts are all the same and each boat is allowed four headsails including two with LP greater than 24ft ( 7.3m ) , but not greater than 26ft 9in ( 8.1m ) , two headsails of 24ft LP or less and three spinnakers . |
| 8 | Every time I 've been to a wedding and people in cravats are all the same . |
| 9 | Then it was a frightful job because the sergeants were all the same . |
| 10 | Furthermore , although the domain-specific corpora were all the same length , due to variations in the type:token ratio the resultant dictionaries varied greatly in size ( from 3,960 entries to 7,748 entries ) . |
| 11 | I have a feeling , actually , that all the prices are all the same , because , and here it tells you , and I seem to recall only seeing one oh no they are , five fifty to eleven pounds . |
| 12 | ‘ You girls are all the same . |
| 13 | You girls are all the same . |
| 14 | It was not naturally as smart a match as the failed one of the summer , but the reactions were all the same gratifying . |
| 15 | ‘ You men are all the same . |
| 16 | You young men are all the same , at heart . |
| 17 | ‘ You bloody socialists are all the same , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ Men/women are all the same ! ’ |
| 19 | Obviously , we can not explain these very striking variations in behaviour via biology , since the people in the various societies were all the same biologically . |
| 20 | The trees , bushes and fields were all the same dun shade , as though a thin layer of dirt had been sprayed everywhere , and wherever you looked there seemed to be mud or rotting leaves or bare , dead-looking branches . |
| 21 | These women are all the same . |
| 22 | You women are all the same — a man just has to turn the corner of the street and the next thing , they 're all eyes and lips and tongue and sucking me ’ — he tripped , changed ‘ sucking him towards them . |
| 23 | The chairs were all the same in these places ; in every Social Security office and Job Centre he 'd ever been in . |
| 24 | The bookplates were all the same . |
| 25 | Briefly she looked for Liban , but the faces were all the same — white as fire , empty as death . |
| 26 | In other countries where the British breeds were prominent the same trend was often followed , until it was realised , in the USA and South Africa in particular , that the cattle were becoming functionally inefficient and that the dwarfing gene was spreading dangerously within the three British beef breeds . |
| 27 | If they know which party you are from and say , ‘ Oh I expect I 'll vote for you ’ , they probably mean ‘ I wo n't , but I want to get rid of you quickly because Dallas is just beginning ’ , or , I 've no idea and I 'm really not interested — politicians are all the same . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You policemen are all the same . |
| 29 | The posters on the walls were all the same old ones of 1950s legionnaires in tanks looking at the desert through binoculars , or cutting their way through the jungle with machetes . |