Example sentences of "be the [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the telephone has become commonplace in most of our homes , and is essential to business , its principles are the same today as they were when Alexander Graham Bell invented it in 1876 . |
| 2 | The first and last points are the same so as to close the zone boundary . |
| 3 | They 're the same now as they were in the fifties when making presentations and that 's about the skills you need when you stand up to speak and the skills you need in the preparation phase so the two towers of presentation skills are about the preparation and the presentation itself . |
| 4 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 5 | The scene , without the players , is the same today as you enter the low walled garden with its four pleasing square summer-houses at the corners and its grand sweeping steps leading up Swangrove is its exotic and inimitable rendering of the local Cotswold style . |
| 6 | ‘ It was the same backwards as forwards , and it had a six in it . |
| 7 | ‘ Les was the same off-stage as on a very funny man , ’ he said . |