Example sentences of "were [adj] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other countries where the British breeds were prominent the same trend was often followed , until it was realised , in the USA and South Africa in particular , that the cattle were becoming functionally inefficient and that the dwarfing gene was spreading dangerously within the three British beef breeds . |
| 2 | If they were all the same colour you 'd think But because you 've become so used to seeing the green and ambers and the reds |
| 3 | Before when we had our other range they were all the same price , which was wrong really because it 's a lot easier to get lavender than it is to get rose . |
| 4 | They were all the same size , and pushed at regular intervals into the soil . |
| 5 | The trees , bushes and fields were all the same dun shade , as though a thin layer of dirt had been sprayed everywhere , and wherever you looked there seemed to be mud or rotting leaves or bare , dead-looking branches . |
| 6 | They were of three different heights so in conversation with Julian I asked if they were all the same height or if some were taller than the others . |
| 7 | Not exactly the same as each other ; he 'd seen different types , but they were all the same types . |
| 8 | Furthermore , although the domain-specific corpora were all the same length , due to variations in the type:token ratio the resultant dictionaries varied greatly in size ( from 3,960 entries to 7,748 entries ) . |