Example sentences of "they were the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the same terms which Dante and the mediaeval jurists insisted on : Virgil was great , was perpetually relevant and in that sense ‘ a classic ’ ( if not , more exactingly , the one indisputable ‘ classic ’ ) , because in him could be found what Dante teased out of him — the vision of Empire , of the divinely appointed imperium , which must be reconciled ( this way and that , for the reconciling was not easy ) with the no less divinely intended ecclesia . |
| 2 | Although the smooths looked nothing like their skinhead predecessors , they were the same kids extending the fashion . |
| 3 | He stood the boxes side by side and then realised that they were the same size . |
| 4 | They were the same . |
| 5 | It seemed highly unlikely that they were the same animals , and the verbal description of them did not fit that of the two rehomed dogs . |
| 6 | Yesterday they were spewed out in the aftermath of the Musgrave Park Hospital outrage but they were the same words which Mr Brooke and his predecessors have used time and time again after other bloody acts of terrorism . |
| 7 | It took five months of telephone calls , letters and faxes to Dr Neil Sontag , before a replacement set arrived , only to find that they were the same , unusable version . |
| 8 | Although it was hardly conclusive proof they were the same kegs as those discovered by the vagrant , all the signs pointed to it being more than just a coincidence . |
| 9 | The second , related one is about the reasons for treating all people as if they were the same , regardless of their individual peculiarities of sex and gender . |
| 10 | Pupils were asked to group shapes and say in what ways they were the same as or different from shapes in the other groups . |
| 11 | Preston looked at him and wondered if they were the same nightmares he had . |
| 12 | Although they were the same age , they thought the Russells Hall pupils would be much bigger than them . |
| 13 | The pupils decided that they were the same in that context and were satisfied that there were only three different shapes if they did not allow fences in the middle or squares just touching at the corners . |
| 14 | However , in most of what follows , we shall treat theorem proving and other cases of monotonic search as if they were the same . |
| 15 | Burrs of hair were scattered on his scalp ; they were the same muted colour as his skin , as though he were compounded of the dust he played in . |
| 16 | They were the same height , almost exactly . |
| 17 | Here one would think , and perhaps often , they were the same man ( see also below , pp. 64ff . ) . |
| 18 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 19 | They were the same colours-the same jewels — as those he had worn the first time they had met . |
| 20 | They were the same , full of khaki shirts , khaki socks and khaki singlets . |
| 21 | ‘ They were the same , but all the other cells were presided over by the man who founded the order at a place in England called Medmenham Abbey . |
| 22 | The hay ricks oh they were just er They were the same but they were no pointed like the h hay the Like they have er time of the harvest time , the hay ricks was just round and round and =nd =d sloped up to a point . |
| 23 | They were the same type — the off-the-peg evil mastermind — but Kruger was too much a part of this screwy Dream to host a real mind . |
| 24 | Well I suppose probably people li like nursemaids and er and er what they used to call in those days mothers ' helps , who used to sort of be a general skivvy around the house and would look after the children , and , and , and they were the same , they had to be in I think at , at sort of ten o'clock at night . |
| 25 | It did n't matter for , apart from minor details that necessitated some new editing , they were the same . |
| 26 | They were the same , of course , that rich shade of brown that lightened and darkened as his mood changed . |
| 27 | But they were the same family the same Same people all through the years . |
| 28 | They were the same as last time but with , probably , more justification . |
| 29 | Sometimes I would have a gull and a crow but , whether they were the same species or not , they quickly found out they could n't fly properly — though the twine was long enough in theory — and ended up ( after a few hilariously clumsy aerobatics ) fighting . |
| 30 | They were the same age — twenty-four — had been born and brought up in Hong Kong , and gone to school together . |