Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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1 | She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it . |
2 | The dating of Romano-British mosaics is not yet sensitive enough to exclude the possibility that the regular grid arrangements ( already discussed ) , the simple " or quincunx-panel lozenge formats , and these centralised designs were not broadly contemporary ( that each was possible at the same time , depending on the taste or knowledge of the client or mosaicist ) . |
3 | Some like Sunday long ago , the child Simon had crept up to his Indian step-grandmother when she was asleep in the same wheelchair and thrown a blanket over her , shouting that she was a canary in a cage . |
4 | Elizabeth Maginnis , the convener , said the timetable for change — starting at the start of next school year and to cover all schools by April 1996 — was unrealistic at the same time as local government was being reformed . |
5 | Sarah Evans , a manager in Price Waterhouse 's litigation and special services department , was cross-examined on the same evidence . |
6 | Chris Laidlaw , the All Black halfback , was another about the same time who , in fact , teamed with Mains ' brother Rick as the inside backs in an outstanding school team . |
7 | Motivated by an 1841 paper of Boole , Cayley , who was interested at the same time in algebraic aspects of projective geometry , began seeking invariants of homogeneous forms of degree n in two and more variables . |
8 | He was proud that the invisible spirit animating the slight frame had dared to conceive the intended deed as his duty ; but he was afraid at the same time that he would lack the courage to endure the pain and carry it through . |
9 | The second half was much of the same with neither side being able to carve out clear cut chances . |
10 | The 2nd half was much of the same with Leeds having even more of the play but creating even less chances ( or so it seemed ) . |
11 | Nearly half a century ago , J.M.W. Turner — he of the prize — was subject to the same patronising disparagement as Mr Davey today ’ . |
12 | Horton Hospital , located in Epsom , and together with Banstead one of a ring of mental hospitals in the vicinity known as the ‘ Epsom cluster ’ , was subject to the same process of decline and was also in an impossible location to offer community care . |
13 | Thus the firm in economic theory behaved identically and was subject to the same constraints whether it took the form of an individual proprietorship , a partnership or a company . |
14 | Though a crown body , it did not operate as such and thus was subject to the same planning control as private developers . |
15 | And although it was customary for the same actor to double as Mr Darling and Captain Hook the way St Ives played them there seemed little difference between the two — he romped in the nursery and he sky-larked aboard the Jolly Roger . |
16 | From Iran turquoise was carried as far afield as west Caucasia , where it occurred in the Maikop barrow in the Kuban , and north Mesopotamia , where it was present in the same tomb at Tepe Gawra as lapis lazuli . |
17 | The general categories of applications reported were as follows ; in most cases more than one category was present in the same organization . |
18 | In August Maureen 's friend Mary Mullen was married and a girl who worked with Anne was married on the same day . |
19 | He was involved in the same heavy round of duties as soon as he returned to London , however , and honorary positions were becoming increasingly a burden . |
20 | was impressed by the same consideration . |
21 | ‘ Dr Armitage , I confess I had hoped for a little more from someone who knew Dr Wetherby so well and was resident at the same convention . |
22 | I think erm previously we misunderstood that point , we thought the hundred and forty five hectares was footloose in the same area of search for the settlement and |
23 | This case was concerned with the same facts as Wagon Mound ( No 1 ) and the same defendants . |
24 | The victim he helped said he owed his life to … and there was more of the same . |
25 | When they died it was more of the same . |
26 | Carved into the stone was more of the same type of repulsive alien art that had become so familiar over the past couple of days . |
27 | What was needed was more of the same — intensified police action backed by the ever-watchful vigilance of the purity movement . |
28 | There was more of the same before Alexei and Jotan were allowed to depart , but further enquiry into the matter was not mentioned , and it was as if Artai had lost interest . |
29 | At the hospital , it was more of the same . |
30 | I knew Nour was beautiful with the same sort of tutored , obedient awareness that led one to comprehend the merits of , say , the head of Nefertiti , but I did n't care . |