Example sentences of "it [was/were] the same " in BNC.
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1 | It is no wonder that what we see becomes identified with , and spoken of as if it were the same as , what we touch . |
2 | Ideas about the abnormality of disabled people that arise out of research based on adding together the particular psychological attributes of individual disabled people are then systematically misleading , since they fail to include ‘ social forces , structural features of society , institutional factors and so on ’ ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 122 ) in their explanations — in other words , because they treat disability as if it were the same thing as impairment . |
3 | It 's a , I mean it were the same at Christmas were n't it ? |
4 | It was the licensing system and licensing controls , after all , which helped to foster Britain 's peculiar ‘ brewery tie ’ and concentrate pub ownership in the hands of the brewers in the first place ; and it was the same system which connived at and partly encouraged the modern contagion of open-plan pub designs . |
5 | It was the same story which brought about the downfall of another huge yard — Tyne — in October 1989 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | In her opening round of 67 on Thursday , the American made fours at each of the five long holes , and it was the same par fives which served her well yesterday . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | It was the Mau Mau conflict itself which forced the government to recognize the need to increase the productivity of the Kikuyu areas , and it was the same conflict which facilitated the means . |
10 | After a few minutes it was the same inside . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | It was the same story in the Congo and again in Zaire . |
13 | It was the same with the German prisoners-of-war , they were just like you or me . |
14 | It was the same and supposedly ‘ safe ’ haven which attracted former TV director Ray Elton from Belsize Park , London , to put £96,000 into BCI . |
15 | Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough . |
16 | In my affections it was the same . |
17 | It was the same dog he 'd seen outside Mrs Wright 's hen-house . |
18 | It was the same kind of dog as Caspar . |
19 | It was the same with the bath taps . |
20 | It was the same dream as before , only this time Frankie had entered the room with his father 's long-handled axe held high above his head . |
21 | Yes , it was the same man . |
22 | Noel Koch of the Defence Department came across North one day in the corridor , frazzled ; it was the same story . |
23 | I know , it was the same with me . |
24 | It was the same with singing . |
25 | It was the same with the wine . |
26 | It was the same polls that said Neil Kinnock looked a winner . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Then you could put the glowing good looks and evident superiority down to ‘ American precociousness ’ , but next year at Epsom , it was the same . |
29 | It was the same banner that flew over the columns of marching men converging on the Women ‘ s Battalion guarding the Provisional Government in St Petersburg … the same banner that was raised in front of the crowds surging into George Square in Glasgow . |
30 | The area was still packed at weekends , despite a frenetic quality to the enjoyment ; and , it was the same sun and the same lake as it had always been , dotted with the yachts of the rich . |