Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | LONG before we started telling naive people to take what they were told with a pinch of salt , the Romans were issuing the same advice in the form of ‘ cum grano salis ’ , which was actually a mild pun . |
| 32 | as if she were putting the same reel of film back in the projector , she ran through the whole scene once again : she is speaking to the visitor , Paul is watching them with astonishment , and the guest is saying : ‘ In your next life , do you want to stay together or never meet again ? ’ |
| 33 | As volunteers for the day we were accorded the same privilege . |
| 34 | Other right-wing intellectuals were making the same point . |
| 35 | When Maggie and Susan left the house they were carrying the same pail and enamel container that they 'd used earlier . |
| 36 | I asked , not certain we were discussing the same property . |
| 37 | Behaviour on the terraces was also thought to be deteriorating in the 1930s and crowd incidents — involving pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and occasional confrontations between spectators and the police — were exciting the same interest . |
| 38 | The dogs who attacked Becky were destroyed the same day . |
| 39 | However , since tests are always used by different people in different settings , it is also necessary to know something about the extent to which the same tester may achieve stable scores , when the test is given to the same person on different occasions , or the extent to which the scores from different testers would be comparable if they were to test the same individual . |
| 40 | One may imagine the furore if the Court of Appeal were to take the same stance in a capital case , a contingency happily remote . |
| 41 | A team of over 100 scientists was working to produce a weapon of almost inconceivable power , ‘ their moral scruples overcome by the fascination of the research and the haunting fear that the Germans were following the same path ’ . |
| 42 | Now what 's happened , what would happen if we were to follow the same type of line there would be that the airfield would stay open as if needed a small commuter airfield . |
| 43 | Olive Saunderson and Norman Field met and fell in love in predictably romantic circumstances when the Fields and the Saundersons were guests on board Lord Vestey 's yacht on a cruise to Norway in 1909 They were married the same year in Dublin and returned to England to set up home . |
| 44 | After all , they were paid the same sum whether Nigel arrived by Rolls Royce or dustcart . |
| 45 | Just like Branson , Elliott had run his business with a curious mixture of post-hippie idealism and proprietorial droit de seigneur ; for many years , all staff , from the postboy to the editor , were paid the same amount . |
| 46 | Endill was given the same suitcase his father and grandfather had taken with them to school . |
| 47 | I in the past th Granville mentioned these letters that used to work their way down from on high which might have just been a , a bit of a twinkle in somebody 's eye with no money at all to spend on physical work but even so it was given the same status within the R C E's organization of five or ten years ago a a as an investment item was , it was almost authorized . |
| 48 | The Beveridge report was to breathe the same spirit of optimism and confidence that long-standing problems could be tackled . |
| 49 | Of his playing partners , Greg Norman was fined the same amount , but Ken Brown , who had been punished the day before , had to fork out £100 for a second offence . |
| 50 | The spokesman said that 10 NPFL fighters had died in the Vahun incident , and that all bodies had been buried , but it was reported the same day that Taylor had ordered that the bodies should be exhumed . |
| 51 | It was reported the same day that the UN military commander in Somalia , Brig. -Gen . |
| 52 | Kemp was discharged the same day , but Raynsford — the more seriously injured — was kept in by doctors until Monday . |
| 53 | On a ship the size of the Ocean Empress it was surprisingly easy , especially when it seemed he was adopting the same principle . |
| 54 | Dissident middle-ranking army officers staged a coup attempt in April , which was foiled the same day after heavy fighting [ see p. 37367 ] . |
| 55 | At his insistence he was seen the same day , and exhaustive examination failed to reveal any abnormality . |
| 56 | Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s . |
| 57 | Herbert 's career had demonstrated how valuable it was to have a focus for royal efforts in Wales and the council of the prince of Wales was to serve the same purpose in the 1470s . |
| 58 | Mixu Paatelainen was shown the same consideration earlier in the season and the word from the maternity unit at Pittodrie is that Mrs Duncan Shearer is next in the gynaecological line . |
| 59 | Being sure I was on course did not convince me I was going the same way as everyone else . |
| 60 | She had already had one of her hips replaced and the other one was going the same way . |