Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens .
2 Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher .
3 ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’
4 ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’
5 [ See Fig. 2 ] Stromboli has been showing the same kind of activity more or less continuously for centuries , and is often called the ‘ lighthouse of the Mediterranean ’ .
6 Here , the 212-mile Southern Uplands Way which has been following the same route since Caldons Wood , heads further eastwards .
7 It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over .
8 Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing .
9 Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years .
10 I , I would like to think they 'd been supported the same as the boxing club , but after all the boxing club is for youths , and I think they 've got to look after the youths erm , try and find something for them to do , as much as erm , community
11 But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same .
12 It would almost certainly have been given the same support by the full House had it not been attached to a Bill to reform obscenity law , with which it had no clear or logical connection .
13 Morpurgo must have been wearing the same tie the day she came to Tyler 's Hard .
14 To have been too radical , however , would have been to invite the same fate as the reports of previous committees .
15 These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " .
16 A decade or so previously , Nizan had been taught the same bitter lesson .
17 The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm .
18 When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’
19 This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs !
20 For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label .
21 When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn .
22 The tin bath was half-filled with hot water into which had been poured the same perfumed green oil that Smallfry always added to her bath .
23 There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them .
24 She further alleged that an older brother had been doing the same .
25 It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before .
26 I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham .
27 It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before .
28 John-William had been saying the same thing himself when Ben Braithwaite had still been in his cradle .
29 Blacks would have been better off now if , after being shipped to America in chains , they had been allowed the same freedom to prosper as willing immigrants were .
30 If BP boss Sir Peter Walters had been paid the same proportion of sales he would have received a salary of £8.1billion .
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