Example sentences of "was the same [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , it was the same reliance on that market that also killed it , as BMC realised it could n't economically meet the new US emissions and safety requirements of the late '60s . |
| 2 | Everybody knew the blind fiddler and he had always his kilt on and But after a while , I do n't know , the next time he came round I mind he had trousers on and we did n't think he was the same man at all , no . |
| 3 | That was the same year in which the first of the classic Austin-Healey line , the four cylinder 100–4 went into production , having been adopted by Austin from a Healey design shown at the previous year 's show . |
| 4 | That was the same year in which Admiral Kolchak was executed in the main public square . |
| 5 | Can you imagine opening a daily newspaper , and finding that on every page , there was the same message from God ; or can you imagine watching breakfast TV — or listening to the Today programme — and finding that every feature was a message from God , with different emphases , but always the same message . |
| 6 | It was the same story with the first three but the fourth told me that I would be certain to get a coffin from a firm of suppliers in Birkenhead and was kind enough to give me their telephone number . |
| 7 | It was the same story on the 30th and frustration mounted amongst the crews , by the end of June Ramsay had flown 18 operations and had become well established on the Squadron as one of the most accurate navigators . |
| 8 | Earlier today it was the same story on the main line from Paddington to Bristol and South Wales . |
| 9 | By and large , it was the same story at many of the smaller training centres . |
| 10 | But to the north , where the main Himalayan chain should have loomed , the curtain never parted , and it was the same story in the morning . |
| 11 | It was the same story in the Congo and again in Zaire . |
| 12 | It was the same story in Germany and Holland where our issue also made the headlines . |
| 13 | ‘ I know some of the other jocks here fancy her rotten , and it was the same story in Sydney , ’ Florian told Luke crudely , genuinely unaware of the variety of reactions he was eliciting . |
| 14 | It was the same idea of the Empire as a patrimony , or an estate , the source of a livelihood for the mothercountry , to which Chamberlain had appealed : ‘ I know how our forefathers … bore themselves bravely in the titanic strife with Napoleon and came out victorious . |
| 15 | The dining area was the same canopy beneath which they had been interviewed earlier in the day , only now the matting was covered with carpets , some of them very fine , and an inverted ‘ U ’ of low square tables of some dark wood had been set out . |
| 16 | It was the same kind of dog as Caspar . |
| 17 | Hari thought again of her father and sitting there on the edge of her seat she believed that the man standing before her , handsome and young though he might be , was the same kind of man as Dewi Morgan , upright and steadfast , his eyes clear and direct as they looked down at her . |
| 18 | Again there was the same kind of voice : ‘ Wheee … wheee … |
| 19 | She said later that it was the same kind of relaxation the body feels after a really satisfying orgasm , every muscle relaxed and a marvellous sense of peace . |
| 20 | He was the same kind of man , too . |
| 21 | She showed us one , she had a Christmas tree and she had er star and tha that was the same kind of thing it 's sort of |
| 22 | He repeated the query , substituting biscuit , ice-cream , banana ; there was the same level of response , but nothing more . |
| 23 | Charles Dutoit programmed it with the Montreal Symphony after he heard the disc , says Lin , ‘ and it was the same thing with Jeffrey Tate . |
| 24 | K. S. Karol points out that it was the same meeting of the Central Committee ( on 11 July ) which both endorsed Khrushchev 's announcement on 9 July of virtually unlimited economic aid to Cuba and approved his decision to withdraw all Soviet economic aid from China , and argues that the Cuban affair gave Khrushchevan unexpected internationalist alibi' for his anti-Maoist campaign ( Karol : 1971 , p. 204 ) . |
| 25 | She looked at Peter , gravely answering the teasing of one of the lovers , and wondered if what she felt for him was the same quality of feeling that her parents had known and relied upon . |
| 26 | After 1914 there was the same certainty about the war , and it was indeed the inflexible determination of the Unionist party , sure about ends and pragmatic as to means , that was the bedrock on which Britain 's war effort rested . |
| 27 | There was the same gap between understanding and the possibility of action when I read Simone de Beauvoir 's The Second Sex just before leaving university . |
| 28 | At the same time not only was there another G number but it was the same make of car as the last five G numbers had been and it was the same colour as three out of the last ten cars that had passed the other way . |
| 29 | It was the same sort of hysteria after the Hungerford massacre which persuaded a weak and inexperienced Home Secretary to give the police unfettered discretion to bully , terrorise and generally make a nuisance of themselves among law-abiding sportsmen . |
| 30 | Bobby Gould was the same sort of striker . |