Example sentences of "this [was/were] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the same machine who had computed so many of the calculations involved in designing his daughter . |
| 2 | I was stunned : evidently this was the same Sir Simon Gourlay who , before his knighthood , was president of the NFU . |
| 3 | That this was the same family can be judged from the inclusion of a poem by R. W. Blencowe , jr. , who can be located in the genealogies . |
| 4 | This was the same proportion as for all households . |
| 5 | At 3.8 per cent of the total population of Northern Ireland , this was the same as the 1961 percentage ; it compared with a modest increase of o.86 per cent in the three counties east of the Bann ( Antrim , Armagh and Down ) and a small decline of 0.23 per cent west of the Bann ( counties Derry , Tyrone and Fermanagh ) . |
| 6 | This was the same Clark who had stressed that a regular education was necessary for a farrier . |
| 7 | There was no doubt whatever in George 's mind that this was the same man . |
| 8 | This was the same old tumbledown mission hall which the Sally Army used and which all the neighbours used when there was a wedding or some other big function to be held . |
| 9 | This was the same island we had visited on my first trip . |
| 10 | This was the same Herod that Pontius Pilate sent the accused Jesus to during his trial , on the excuse that , because Jesus was a Galilean , he came under the rule of the Tetrarch of Galilee ( Luke 23:2–7 ) . |
| 11 | But this was the same matter . |
| 12 | I could n't quite believe that this was the same Steffi that I had read about in Tennis World and that she was actually there . |
| 13 | This was the same formula that Harmsworth ( Lord Northcliffe ) used when he launched the Daily Mail in 1896 . |
| 14 | This report noted that this was the same area as terrorised by The FOX in the previous summer . |
| 15 | A financial document that had NOT been used in the compilation of the corpus was selected as test data ( this was the same document as used in the earlier investigations of Chapter Three ) . |
| 16 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 17 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 18 | We guessed that this was the same set we 'd seen long ago on the journey from the Scullery when Abed had wanted to stop us reading them . |
| 19 | This was the same evening on which Johnson wryly said that now the Hanoverian King had given him a pension , he could hardly drink Stuart health with the wine thus bought . |
| 20 | This was the same fault , as it turned out , which cut off the Bonsor Vein at its northern end , and became known as the Great , or Kernal Cross-course . |
| 21 | Robbie could scarcely believe this was the same man who was at such pains to keep her at a safe distance , until she reflected that in Fen 's eyes Miss Taylor would present no threat to his reserve . |
| 22 | Of course , it could be claimed that this was the same thing as : but it has been pointed out that the two versions are different in several ways . |
| 23 | This was the same youngsters that were playing two years ago . |