Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | In which case ‘ history ’ becomes a force to be resisted by readers who like literature , and who may also like history , but have never thought they were one and the same thing . |
| 2 | There was no evidence to connect the Prowler with the letter-writer , or the letter-writer with Randolph Henry Ash , and yet he felt a powerful conviction that all three were one and the same . |
| 3 | We assumed that Elsie 's death explained her disappearance , that the two events were one and the same thing . |
| 4 | The committee was seriously convinced of the benefits that must result from an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine ; the object of this committee 's concern , and that of Vial , were one and the same ; and it was greatly to be desired that the two plans — that of the Odiham Agricultural Society and that of Vial — ( which may be termed the Alfort plan ) should be consolidated into one . |
| 5 | Victor and vanquished , he was beginning to think , came together in art and were one and the same . |
| 6 | For instance , they did n't tell you if the landowner and Mr Alec Chipstead were one and the same person , though you could tell that was what they meant . |
| 7 | Sometimes the scientist and the philosopher were one and the same person . |
| 8 | He seems also to have been a Zadokite — but does this mean that the Nazareans and the Zadokites were one and the same ? |
| 9 | There 's nothing wrong with a man living under an assumed name and besides that , I could n't prove that Mr Broadhurst and Samuel Northcliffe were one and the same , any more than I could prove that it was The Fat Controller who had killed the woman at the Theatre Royal with a spring-loaded hypodermic full of curare , rather than anyone else . |
| 10 | But when I concentrated on the postage-stamp-sized photographs bearing his name that had started to appear , I could no longer be certain that he and The Fat Controller were one and the same . |
| 11 | But it was the same man … last night 's rescuer and her new temporary employer were one and the same … |
| 12 | This indicates , but does not prove , that the three populations were one and the same . |
| 13 | It would be natural to take it for granted that the model and the dress designer were one and the same . |
| 14 | He sensed , rather than heard it , as if it and the all-pervading light were one and the same . |
| 15 | Although it is often assumed that these were one and the same battle , there is no evidence that Clovis fought at Zülpich , and it is possible that they were separate events . |
| 16 | Now to find they were one and the same had thrown her completely . |
| 17 | The passing of time had eroded the picture from his mind as much as he could possibly allow it , so that now the two images were one and the same . |
| 18 | He had brilliantly and successfully argued that the Toraja religion was one and the same with whatever " Hindu-Balinese animism " might be — and thus Toraja religion was permitted to survive . |