Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 20(1) ( iv ) was the model for the definition of theft and ‘ appropriate ’ was intended to bear the same meaning . |
| 2 | To test the first possibility P(A) was calculated using the same procedure as before but this time for individual subjects rather than stimuli . |
| 3 | No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim . |
| 4 | The puzzling thing was that if the intensity of the light was reduced , the number of particles emitted diminished , but the speed with which each particle was emitted remained the same . |
| 5 | ( That the government was ready for a strike was a widespread interpretation of its appointment of Ian MacGregor to chair the NCB from September 1983 on ; MacGregor chaired British Steel in 1980–1 , a period encompassing its major dispute , and was believed responsible for the major cuts in job levels ; it was assumed that he was expected to achieve the same in the coal industry . ) |
| 6 | It was decided to withdraw the same charges against former Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai and former Finance Minister Hanna Awdah . |
| 7 | Mr. Walden ( builder ) was instructed to alter the same to an amended tone selected by the Committee ’ . |
| 8 | Respondents were also asked how satisfied they were with each decision-making process , and this was measured using the same seven point scale . |
| 9 | I was going to say the same thing . |
| 10 | I was going to say the same , the Beatles eight legs . |
| 11 | ‘ Strange , ’ Ven drawled , ‘ I was going to order the same , ’ he added solemnly , and , not giving her a hint of what she had requested , he passed their two orders over to the waiter . |
| 12 | It was a surprise to find that she was beginning to feel the same way about it herself . |
| 13 | His daughter was fated to face the same problem . |
| 14 | Dexter guessed she was starting to share the same nagging sense of depression that had afflicted him since the end of the interview with Parkin . |
| 15 | By replacing one of the sulphur atoms in an ring by RC , it was hoped to retain the same electronic properties of and , by changing the substituent R , a systematic study of the physical and chemical properties of this type of heterocycle could be done . |
| 16 | In contrast to these results , Slobin and Welsh found that a child was able to imitate one of her own utterances immediately after she had produced it spontaneously , but that errors occurred when the child was asked to imitate the same utterance some minutes later . |
| 17 | 61% of the sample would be not at all concerned if a mentally handicapped child was allowed to attend the same school as their child |
| 18 | But in case he shall die in my Lifetime then I desire that my Coffin be made by his Son in like manner as his Father was to have made the same for which I Will he shall be paid the Sum of Ten Pounds and that in such Case the said Legacy of Ten Pounds so given to his father shall cease and not be paid . |
| 19 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 20 | Last night , Sam had tried to manipulate Clare , and now her grandmother was trying to do the same thing on his behalf . |
| 21 | To determine whether acute smoking has an acute effect on gastric secretion that can explain the findings of the chronic studies , the effect of this on gastric secretion was studied using the same methods as those used in the chronic studies of Whitfield and Hobsley . |
| 22 | In the second investigation , a general collocation dictionary was tested using the same document . |
| 23 | This was tested using the same unseen banking document , and again gave a significant result , which suggested that collocation information compiled from a general corpus could be effective within a specific domain . |
| 24 | The OALD was indexed using the same technique as that applied to the CED , and used as the source of definitions by the overlap program . |