Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you and he were interested in the same things . ’ |
| 2 | You were interested in the same thing . |
| 3 | Many natural foods we have happily consumed for centuries would never be allowed to be sold in the shops today if they were subject to the same tests as modern drugs and edible substances . |
| 4 | The cuffs and the waistband were ribbed in the same colour . |
| 5 | We also tested the methylation pattern of expressing ( -300bp promoter deletion ) and non-expressing ( -55bp promoter deletion ) transgenes and found that both transgene were unmethylated to the same extent ( data not shown ) . |
| 6 | He was also concerned about the reliability of the data : for example , that no measure of agreement was given for observations made when pairs of inspectors were present in the same classroom . |
| 7 | Where the rights in question are spelt out , they are often lumped together , as if they were all of the same kind . |
| 8 | It was a great night and I 'm sure our invited guests were all of the same mind . |
| 9 | They were all about the same age as my daughter Kate , and three were fighting for their lives . |
| 10 | Quite apart from the ones I killed ( and they were all about the same age I was when I murdered them ) I can think of at least three of our family who went to whatever they imagined their Maker was like in unusual ways . |
| 11 | Three concrete blocks were cemented to the patio stones at the rear of the new pond as a base for this filter — it was important that these were all at the same level . |
| 12 | In Friedmann 's models , the galaxies are all moving directly away from each other-so it is not surprising that at some time in the past they were all at the same place . |
| 13 | But every little detail seemed crucial and it was something I struggled with all the way through , but knowing that Cathy , Joan and I were all on the same wavelength and felt the same level of commitment was a great relief . |
| 14 | At Leicester , for instance , the changing benches , bath and lavatory were all in the same room . ’ |
| 15 | I pointed out that Sara , Greg and Barney were all in the same position : they had n't chosen to be born to us . |
| 16 | Instead of a series of national financial systems linked by a few operators buying and selling credit across the exchanges , we now have a global system , in which national markets , physically separate , function as if they were all in the same place . |
| 17 | When you came to get your your contract with er te te te and you were all in the same c contract , was that because you got together as a union , or whether you got t together as the worker ? |
| 18 | There 's quite a few around us because then we was not going onto a council estate from the one room , and we were all in the same boat together . |
| 19 | The songs were concerned with the same themes of love , death , deprivation , hardship , romantic yearnings and self-denial . |
| 20 | If human eyes were sensitive to the same radiation as the goldfish 's retina , we would see the infra-red remote-control beams that operate televisions and videos . |
| 21 | The judgment held that men and women were entitled to the same pension from the same age . |
| 22 | I ca n't say whether this is true or not but I have been told , it was spoke about when I was a kid , that they never saw each other except if they were both of the same religion . |
| 23 | But the trouble was they were both at the same time after school where she was meant to be decorating the hall for the disco after school that night . |
| 24 | She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it . |
| 25 | The dating of Romano-British mosaics is not yet sensitive enough to exclude the possibility that the regular grid arrangements ( already discussed ) , the simple " or quincunx-panel lozenge formats , and these centralised designs were not broadly contemporary ( that each was possible at the same time , depending on the taste or knowledge of the client or mosaicist ) . |
| 26 | Some like Sunday long ago , the child Simon had crept up to his Indian step-grandmother when she was asleep in the same wheelchair and thrown a blanket over her , shouting that she was a canary in a cage . |
| 27 | Elizabeth Maginnis , the convener , said the timetable for change — starting at the start of next school year and to cover all schools by April 1996 — was unrealistic at the same time as local government was being reformed . |
| 28 | Sarah Evans , a manager in Price Waterhouse 's litigation and special services department , was cross-examined on the same evidence . |
| 29 | Chris Laidlaw , the All Black halfback , was another about the same time who , in fact , teamed with Mains ' brother Rick as the inside backs in an outstanding school team . |
| 30 | Motivated by an 1841 paper of Boole , Cayley , who was interested at the same time in algebraic aspects of projective geometry , began seeking invariants of homogeneous forms of degree n in two and more variables . |