Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temperature of his skin was so much the same as mine I hardly knew we touched , yet I remained very still , my hands laid on his shoulders with the exaggerated formality of one learning to dance . |
| 2 | Ross was obviously still the same hard , tough personality that he 'd always been — never giving an inch in an argument , or showing any trace of the ordinary human weaknesses which affected everyone else . |
| 3 | I do n't know our , our , very rare we 'll ring em John was down well the same day as she dropped that little potty off for our Kay |
| 4 | County membership was not quite the same as holding a season-ticket for a Football League club . |
| 5 | He was in love with her , hopelessly in love ; he still loved her deeply , although he realised that was not quite the same thing . |
| 6 | Even if Iron Mike was not quite the same fearsome character as the man who cleaned up all the titles to be the undisputed champion — he was still the most feared man in boxing . |
| 7 | As Benn 's frustration indicates , the ‘ public good ’ which the BBC considered itself to be serving was not necessarily the same as that defined by government . |
| 8 | Barbara caught the possible implication at once , that what James said was not necessarily the same as what James did . |
| 9 | As we saw in the last chapter , he , too , believed in the possibility of an objective category of crime which was not necessarily the same as that defined by the existing criminal law , and its source — the reason of the ‘ few thinking men in every nation ’ seems just as elitist and potentially authoritarian . |
| 10 | Of course we are all very well aware that the distinction exists and that a man 's genitor , who made his mother pregnant , was not necessarily the same individual as his pater , the legally recognized father , the husband of his mother . |
| 11 | Although Ross was still obviously the same hard , unshakeable man who 'd always been master of his own emotions , it did seem to Laura that he was now acting in an oddly constrained manner . |
| 12 | The situation was still much the same when Hegarty and his colleagues ( 1981 ) carried out their study of LEA integration schemes . |
| 13 | Along the length of the coast the story was now everywhere the same : Allied troops hanging on to vulnerable footholds , saved from annihilation only by their dogged courage . |
| 14 | Because he was n't just the same hard , tough personality that he always had been : he was now far more dangerous — certainly if her present fragile emotions were anything to go by . |
| 15 | And it was n't even the same day , but the day after , and as a result , er a man called John , |
| 16 | I recently spent ten hours mixing this live broadcast that 's coming out soon on the BBC , and as soon as I pulled either mine or Keith 's amp out of the mix the vibe was n't quite the same . |
| 17 | Somehow , being late in London was n't quite the same as being late in the country . |
| 18 | As she listened to Amsterdam she became more sure by the minute that Timothy was n't quite the same as he 'd been when he had left the house that morning . |
| 19 | Daisy had one baby and then another , and Fred and Arthur did a television series together directly after the first child was born , but a reserve had come between them and their companionship was n't quite the same . |
| 20 | You could even sense it in the village , ever since those two kids had been drowned ; business was running as usual , but the spirit of the place somehow was n't quite the same . |
| 21 | But , somehow , it was n't quite the same . |
| 22 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
| 23 | It was true , Uncle Max had said many times that if she decided to take up general practice he 'd be only too happy to have her join him , but that was n't quite the same thing as actually being offered a job . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it was quite often the same people who represented their countries in the various bodies : when the ministerial organs of the OEEC , Council of Europe , NATO or WEU were examined , the overlapping nature of their memberships was very apparent . |
| 25 | Uppingham in Rutland , which just reached 300 , was almost exactly the same size as the big villages Langham and Lyddington . |
| 26 | The trouble was that the pile of things they had put aside to back in the cupboards again was almost exactly the same size as the first pile . |
| 27 | It was almost invariably the same : halfway through any case Morse would be off on some improbable and complicated line of thought which would be just as readily abandoned as soon as a few more facts emerged . |
| 28 | But away back in the beginning God was there just the same . |
| 29 | Except that the face on it was black , it was pretty nearly the same as the one Mother Bombie had put up for Joy Prentice . |
| 30 | With the much lower production costs of the late 1980s , small circulation was no longer the same barrier to profitability . |