Example sentences of "was [adv] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 The pattern for aircraft was mostly the same .
2 This was effectively the same as the Spanish Pyrenean of northern Navarre and had already been crossed to a large extent with Limousin and Garonnais before it finally disappeared into the Blonde during the 1960s , leaving only the rare Béarnais as a purebred remnant .
3 I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare .
4 The programme in 1988 was basically the same , and I am sure audience and choirs stood then , as they do now , for the ‘ Hallelujah ’ chorus .
5 It was not just a reason to indulge in nostalgia ; though the tradition was basically the same as it had always been , except that in the past the people had walked further in the processions .
6 It was basically the same old idea of stripping kissograms but he had one or two speciality lines .
7 It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them .
8 Formerly the domicile of a wife was necessarily the same as that of her husband , but under the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 the wife 's dependent domicile was abolished : now her domicile is determined according to the same rules as for a single person .
9 But for all that , in its basics it was indisputably the same Indian-made version of the 1956 Morris Oxford that had lorded it over the roads of India for some thirty-odd years now .
10 The situation was much the same in the bronze medal fight against Jimenez Reve — Mills gamely avoiding a score but never in contention for the match .
11 The second period was much the same story , Ron Barteling and Robert Nerckenrath making it 5-0 in four minutes .
12 He detested the commercial world and , although he was much the same age as the Prince , had no time for the young .
13 It was much the same story at the Foreign Office .
14 In the rest of Europe the story was much the same , in some ways worse , as a glance within the hopefully green cover of the 1989 status report of the Forum Atomique Européen ( Foratom ) confirmed :
15 And his style was much the same at the end of the campaign as at the beginning : he stayed true to himself .
16 The organisation and roster of labour was much the same as usual .
17 His pride was shared by the rest of the family who were there in the front pews behind them — Hana , with little Jitka in her arms , Uncle Mick , who looked so much older all of a sudden , Carmella , who was much the same , but Joey had lost a lot of his old sunny quality and slumped sullenly in his place .
18 British consul at Silver-store , a self-important man who becomes governor of the island and a KCB : ‘ a stiff-jointed , high-nosed old gentleman , without an ounce of fat on him , of a very angry temper and a very yellow complexion ’ , whose wife ‘ making allowances for differences of sex , was much the same ’ .
19 The number of three-point alignments was much the same in each case .
20 Porto was much the same , even with compulsory handling .
21 But I asked one when we ( they ) were talking about income tax and rents and rates , and Herman implied that 95% was much the same as 100% .
22 It was much the same situation as with the ship attack .
23 Dawyck Haig 's son Alexander was much the same age as Alastair and when the two were old enough we used to have fathers ' and sons ' tennis and golf matches .
24 In a way , the pattern of her life was much the same as during the years following her mother 's death : she ate alone and as soon as she heard her father 's key in the door she went upstairs to her room .
25 Posters and photographs featured strongly in the catalogue and the general mixture was much the same as that in the other sales .
26 In 1979 about 57 per cent of elderly married couples ' incomes were supplemented by an occupational pension ( usually arising from the husband 's previous job ) and the percentage for men living alone was much the same ( Table 5.7 ) .
27 Since also the percentage of assessments below £3 was much the same in Sussex as in Norfolk and Berkshire , a good many farm workers there might have been cottagers who had their own plots of land .
28 In each case the argument was much the same : in crisis , it was the duty of politicians to come together so that the best men could be used to the greatest advantage , and so that shibboleths of party could be discarded .
29 Than Tun 's background was much the same as that of Aung San and Nu .
30 It was much the same when it came to doctors for the people .
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