Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] the same [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what it does show was that , in 1979 , small savers were treated the same as larger savers . |
| 2 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 3 | Cos there was different er things do you see , infantry , Royal Welsh and things like that , they were going the same as us . |
| 4 | Role B : Keep the details of what you were doing the same as for the last interview . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Jack Adams , the unions ' chief negotiator , said they would be seeking to ensure production staff were paid the same as those doing similar jobs at Jaguar — in which Ford recently took a stake — who were earning up to £34 a week more . |
| 7 | She argued that if women were paid the same as men " it would result in many women being dismissed from many trades " , and also accepted without demur , when giving evidence to the Fair Wages Committee a few years later , the proposition that women were satisfied with less money because they were earning " pin money " if married , and " pocket money " if not.38 With such pessimism about equal pay entrenched in the mind of their organizers , with such low evaluation being set on their work , one might argue that it would have been surprising if a militant women 's union could really be organized in the prevailing atmosphere . |
| 8 | Because everybody was treated equally at the start of their Legion service , Mike , who had learnt his killing in the bush war in Rhodesia , was treated the same as a South Vietnamese man who had never put on a uniform in his life . |
| 9 | I thought maybe he was getting the same as Richard and Bryony had had , but he 's cheered up . |
| 10 | Resale-price maintenance ( RPM ) was the arrangement whereby the price of an article — an item of grocery or a washing-machine — was kept the same whether it was sold in the most efficient supermarket or the most run-down corner shop . |