Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the recollection that the Friend had once been guilty of the same fault is a consolation to the Poet , for he now knows how the other must have ‘ bowed ’ under his own , ‘ transgression ’ : They are equal , then — but more , they are united : ‘ Oh , that our night of woe might have remember'd/My deepest sense how hard true sorrow hits . ’ |
| 2 | On the contrary , the child imagines that only unworthy female persons have thus sacrificed their genital organ , such persons as have probably been guilty of the same forbidden impulses as he himself . |
| 3 | There has been some of the same controversy over the role of the mental handicap hospitals as over the psychiatric hospitals , but on the whole the issue is clearer : they ought to be replaced by smaller units , ranging from hostels and homes to specialist hospital units able to provide intensive nursing for the severely handicapped minority . |
| 4 | They had however , been subject to the same grounds for referral and allegations as the other three families at the first Children 's Panel Hearing on 5 March . |
| 5 | With both railways only ten miles apart , however , it makes the SDR figures all the more remarkable because both have been subject to the same local economic situation and relative decline in tourist numbers . |
| 6 | Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population . |
| 7 | You 've both followed international careers , acquiring a cosmopolitan patina , you 've both been involved with the same man … |
| 8 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 9 | They must have been close to the same age , but Sandra looked very young , like a petulant child wearing the costume of a grown woman . |
| 10 | The question to be addressed by an industrial tribunal in a particular case is whether a man would have been dismissed by the employer if , in the same circumstances , he would have been absent for the same length of time for medical reasons . |
| 11 | There have been four players with the same initial letter of their surname playing for a Test side both before and since , but there has only been four of the same letter on each side . |