Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frances Donaghy of the RCN in Northern Ireland said 2,000 beds had been removed during the past four years yet hospitals were still handling the same volume of patients . |
| 2 | Most of them , according to contemporary accounts , were still using the same crude methods and homely remedies that were popular 100 years before . |
| 3 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 4 | I entirely accept that if er , four years on we were still doing the same thing that then they 'd be er , some erm , requirement for er , cutting back but I think it is also worth reminding ourselves that due to the action of this conservative government in er , forcing the local government review , er , we are facing the spectre er , of an additional full meeting of this council , and indeed we have had to er , respond to that government initiative . |
| 5 | The change in their knowledge and expectations was accompanied by a change in what they saw , although they were still viewing the same physical objects . |
| 6 | They reported that four other cars were also doing the same thing . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean they were probably lying or coming over romantic about the past , and , what 's more , all those old poets were probably doing the same thing . |
| 8 | With another full evening of entertainment ahead , many of the passengers were probably doing the same , she realised , relishing the needle-sharp tingling of the water as it cascaded over her shoulders . |
| 9 | But they were probably saying the same thing at the end of the 1960s after the Socialist Party of the day , the Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste , had won a mere 16.5 per cent of the vote in the 1968 general election and Gaston Deferre , their candidate in the following year 's presidential election had polled just 5 per cent . |