Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George 's rooms were on the first floor ; they had the traditional stolidity of a steak and kidney pie and were much the same colour . |
| 2 | We were much the same age and more like sisters than cousins , really . ’ |
| 3 | It 's easy to see the same thing happening today ; when the United States troops went to Somalia , earlier this year , their officers had hardly anything to do with the local experts , preferring to stick with their prejudices about the lack of intelligence of those whose skins were not the same colour as their own . |
| 4 | But a central conclusion of Tuttle , that the creatures of Laetoli were not the same species as ‘ Lucy ’ and the ‘ first family ’ of Ethiopia , was challenged immediately . |
| 5 | My idea of a nature reserve and what I was actually looking at were not the same thing at all . |
| 6 | ‘ Those were not the same people I had known ; they were homeless , with no nest around them and no children . |
| 7 | The people who created the Garotter 's Act , together with the gentlemen who egged them on from the sidelines helping to fashion the vocabulary of objections to penal reform which remain with us to this day , were thus the same men whose blunted moral sensibilities enabled them to preside over this magnanimous process of ‘ civilisation ’ without turning a hair . |
| 8 | These Selmer/Adams Fenders were exactly the same colour as the Watkins Rapiers which Derek also sprayed . |
| 9 | The sunlight from an open window shone into his eyes , and she noticed that they were exactly the same shade of green as Stephen 's , and just as opaque . |
| 10 | She still did not have much use for him personally ; he , too , was twenty-one , they were exactly the same age take a week or so , and very sure of himself , too sure , even for her taste . |
| 11 | Fifteen of the films , the targets , were exactly the same pieces of film that had been shown in the judgment phase . |
| 12 | Subjects watched a further 48 films , 24 of the films , the targets , were exactly the same pieces of film that had been shown in the judgment phase . |
| 13 | And erm I suppose it would make it would be a lot more logical if all the blinds were just the same price all the time . |
| 14 | ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely . |
| 15 | I understand that this was pretty common , quite common throughout British Railways , it took a few years to knit together you know , the nationalization and the fact that we were just the same railway after that . |
| 16 | In East Punjab these were usually the same man , almost invariably a Brahmin by caste . |
| 17 | The 55% who indicated they would have liked to increase their farm skills were often the same farm wives who tackled emergencies on their own . |
| 18 | At this period umbrellas and sunshades , later known as parasols , were often the same thing . |
| 19 | And we are left with the problem of deciding whether or not the two Elizabeths baptised on 17 October were really the same girl . |
| 20 | She 'd said that once you knew about things like frogs living in flowers , you were n't the same person . |
| 21 | They were n't the same people any more . |
| 22 | BROTHERS Steven and Matthew Rivers were almost the same ages as Princes William and Harry when their small world fell apart . |
| 23 | Then she leant forward — they were almost the same height — and caressed his cheek with her lips . |
| 24 | By 1960 Jean Rychner produced a valuable study of how certain types of variation in the textual transmission of what were essentially the same fabliaux could be explained in terms of their being aimed at specific , and differing , audiences rather than through random mutilation and degeneration . |
| 25 | Even if the black hole did emit the right kinds of particles , one could not tell if they were actually the same particles that had gone down the other hole . |
| 26 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 27 | It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them . |
| 28 | The second period was much the same story , Ron Barteling and Robert Nerckenrath making it 5-0 in four minutes . |
| 29 | It was much the same story at the Foreign Office . |
| 30 | My opponent was much the same height , build and temperament ; we stood toe to toe and swapped blow for blow . |