Example sentences of "all [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 They were all about the same age as my daughter Kate , and three were fighting for their lives .
2 They are all about the same size — only a few centimetres long — with roughly the same shape , slim , approximately rectangular , with high foreheads and small pouting mouths .
3 Quite apart from the ones I killed ( and they were all about the same age I was when I murdered them ) I can think of at least three of our family who went to whatever they imagined their Maker was like in unusual ways .
4 ‘ They are all blonde and are all about the same size and although none of them are identical you would know they are from the same family .
5 ‘ And they are all about the same age and they are all boys who have never been in trouble with the police , but the people who taught them and their family were not exactly surprised at what happened . ’
6 Er no they 're all about the same depth are n't they ?
7 They 're all about the same , there 's hardly any difference in them .
8 ‘ Before you say it 's a forgery , ’ he went on , ‘ let me assure you that we are all after the same thing .
9 The others followed , all of the same murderous breed , twenty killers to be let loose on the tiny defenceless country which Trent had learnt to love for its simplicity and innocence as much as for the variety of its natural beauty .
10 Whether man or beast , we are all of the same essence , we all have a soul .
11 Tracey made a tree with an equal number of rods protruding from each side and all of the same size .
12 Legislative proposals do not , however , materialise in the chamber out of thin air and they are not , furthermore , all of the same character .
13 There are plenty of physical weavings : there are tapestries , rugs , knitted clothes , cat 's cradles , plaits , maypole ribbons ; there is knotting , crochet , basket-weaving , pot-coiling and many more skills which are all of the same basic craft .
14 He argues that the tiger , the lion and the leopard , all of the same genus , Panthera , had a common ancestor , the prehistoric cave lion , also of that genus .
15 By its very nature , Dialectical Theology was a vital and tempestuous movement , and its leaders were by no means all of the same stamp .
16 There is a sense — the most important of all — in which Homer and Dante and Milton , Aeschylus and Shakespeare are all of the same age or none .
17 They are not all of the same date .
18 As they are all of the same family , could I breed from an Oranda and a Blue Carp ?
19 Are we all of the same opinion ?
20 ‘ Your three specialists are all of the same opinion . ’
21 Where the rights in question are spelt out , they are often lumped together , as if they were all of the same kind .
22 subordinates in a work group are all of the same quality or type ; and
23 They were photographic enlargements , head-and-shoulders portraits , all of the same girl , photographed in profile ; looking up and looking down , and seen from the right and from the left .
24 For instance , a quick examination of the subclasses of the architecture schedules in Dewey shows that the subdivisions are not all of the same type .
25 It was a great night and I 'm sure our invited guests were all of the same mind .
26 An Atlantic bottlenose dolphin can discriminate circles , squares and triangles ( all of the same standardized area ) , using only its sonar .
27 All of the same considerations apply , except that here since the protected parties are non-consumers , the section permits the exclusion of liability to the extent that the exemption clause satisfies the requirement of reasonableness .
28 All of the same class so perhaps we should er
29 In the same way we are all under the same delusions in one form or another .
30 I feel happier when they 're all under the same roof .
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