Example sentences of "have [be] the same " in BNC.

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1 The result has been the same each time .
2 If the English handicapper appears to have been lenient with Barnbrook Again , the Irish handicapper has been the same with Morley Street .
3 The sum has been the same since 1983 , when the Government launched its Enterprise Allowance Scheme — better known in some circles as the Enterprise Allowance Scam or Enquiring Artists ' Support .
4 The theoretical object ‘ profession ’ has been the same as for conservative theorists .
5 The pattern has been the same for one Big Idea after another .
6 Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers .
7 But since then our calendar year has been the same as the solar year .
8 I know many of the other tournament professionals will be feeling the same apprehensions and anxieties as myself before the circus begins , but it always has been the same from day one , and believe me it does n't get any easier .
9 It shows that it is no use simply announcing that you can conceive of another 's pain on the grounds that you can suppose that what he has is the same as what you have .
10 He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area .
11 Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well .
12 They had three hundred and seventy three live children between them and on average they should of had twenty seven children with birth defects if they 'd been the same as the rest of the population , the non-criminal , non-prison erm erm erm non-prison population .
13 I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them .
14 Life would not have been the same without them , nor would it be now , considering the lasting impression they made in our minds .
15 I wonder whether the umpire 's attitude would have been the same if the offender had been his opponent , the comparatively unknown Grant Connell .
16 There was nothing to suggest that had the evidence been excluded that result would necessarily have been the same .
17 They must have been the same year , for their birthdays were only two months apart .
18 Ann , in 1913 , would have been the same age as Edward 's mother and , from family hearsay , Ann 's sentiments resemble closely the practical , optimistic piety of Mary Elizabeth Thomas .
19 Perhaps the end would have been the same in any case .
20 They could have been the same young Russians we had met 4,000 miles away in Fairbanks only the day before .
21 Maurice Dodd 's famous cartoon strip The Perishers just would n't have been the same without Boot
22 Will I always have been the same sex ?
23 If the neutrons had been produced by thermonuclear fusion in a stationary plasma the neutrons ' energy spectra would have been the same in both cases , peaked at 2.45 MeV .
24 But dad Craig said : ‘ It must have been the same bug . ’
25 ‘ The Palace deal nearly went through but it would not have been the same as this , ’ said Phelan .
26 However , after paying travel expenses her take-home pay would have been the same .
27 Must have been the same time I did my leg in .
28 Would the impact have been the same had the final , in this particular instance , been anywhere but France ?
29 Would it have been the same if it had been collected by anyone else ?
30 But even if the Verulamium defences were post-Hadrianic , it may not have been the same operation which provided for such an in-significant place as Great Casterton .
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