Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bira was never the same when he drove without Chula . ’ |
| 2 | At the next attempt , Odom excluded and when Cheshire had to take on the two Newcastle riders on his own , the result was just the same as in the initial race . |
| 3 | In Frank H Wright ( Constructions ) Ltd v Frodoor Ltd [ 1967 ] 1 WLR 506 a valuation stated that some assets had not been included , when in fact they had been , but the result was still the same and completely unaffected by this error ; there was therefore no need for the court to correct the valuation . |
| 4 | But the result was always the same . |
| 5 | Repeatedly the hoarse-voiced Feldwebels tried to rally their men forward in one more supreme effort , but the result was always the same . |
| 6 | Whenever I 'd ask them what they wanted to eat the reply was always the same : ‘ Anything , you choose , Mum ’ . |
| 7 | My reply was always the same : ‘ Just read the papers and it will come naturally . ’ |
| 8 | I had known that this was pending but when , over the last few weeks , I had enquired when they were going to start out , the reply was always the same , ‘ Oh , I think we 'll wait a bit and hope for some warmer weather . ’ |
| 9 | She begged Charlie to sell Granpa 's old barrow to raise another pound , but Charlie 's reply was always the same — ‘ Never ’ — before adding that he would rather starve and leave the relic to rot in the back yard than let another hand wheel it away . |
| 10 | Lawenham was never the same without him ; by 1568 it paid only half as much tax as Long Melford , compared with two-and-a-half times as much in 1524 , and its place had been usurped by Hadleigh , which had paid only three-fifths of Lavenham 's quota in 1524 , yet now ranked as the third town in Suffolk after Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich . |
| 11 | The car was exactly the same model as his mother 's . |
| 12 | The purification of the cGMP-gated channel complex was essentially the same as the calmodulin affinity chromatography except DTT was omitted and 0.9mgml -1 of synthetic peptide corresponding to the N-terminal of the 63K ROS channel ( Ser-Asn-Lys-Glu-Gln-Glu-Pro-Lys-Glu-Lys-Lys-Lys-Lys-Lys ) was used to elute the channel complex . |
| 13 | The organisation and roster of labour was much the same as usual . |
| 14 | Galileo did have the insight to perceive that the effect was probably the same as that when a drop of water would remain on a cabbage leaf . |
| 15 | An example of this was the Michelson-Morley experiment , performed in 1887 , which showed that the speed of light was always the same , no matter how the source or the observer was moving . |
| 16 | However , in 1887 a careful experiment carried out by Michelson and Morley showed that the speed of light was always the same . |
| 17 | His greeting was always the same ( and would have been , Jane was sure , in the middle of an earthquake ) : ‘ YOU AU ROIGHT ? ’ |
| 18 | 28.6% were left-handed and this figure was much the same for those killed in action and for those killed in other ways . |
| 19 | With Troon built horse-shoe shaped , the wind was never the same . |
| 20 | From Table 4.1 we can see that the ‘ total working and available for work ’ in Northern Tyne side was roughly the same in 1984 as it had been in 1972 , i.e. under 300 000 . |
| 21 | If their protection under agreement and under law was exactly the same as a full time-worker then what 'd happen is simple . |
| 22 | Basically you see The Bar was always the same . |
| 23 | For example , De Vane ( 1975 ) concluded that their economic regional multiplier was roughly the same as hotels , but that insufficient data were available to assess their effect on house prices . |
| 24 | His certainty , his sense of direction , his belief in himself disintegrated alongside his career , and the Nizan household was never the same again . |
| 25 | As a result with good control of working capital , our cash flow overall was virtually the same as in the previous year in spite of the significant profit collapse and although there may be some further redundancies this year , I do n't expect them to be in any way on the same scale as during nineteen ninety two and the important thing is that we now have costs in line with the lower level of revenue as we look into nineteen ninety three . |
| 26 | And Diana was told that her request for a divorce was almost the same as an abdication . |
| 27 | Her laugh was always the same ; high and birdlike , very young . |
| 28 | The second half was just the same . |
| 29 | In 1985 their consumption was roughly the same as in 1973 , even though real GNP had increased by a third . |
| 30 | The girl was approximately the same age as the rector , must have weighed thirteen stone , and was dressed in a rather tight flowered overall . |