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

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1 The problems … had grown tremendously in scale ; but they were fundamentally the same .
2 Things were much the same at Ideal , where Victorian novels and stage plays were preferred to books by contemporary worthies of literature .
3 As Mr Soames was the grandson of Winston Churchill , it might look as though the end-products were much the same as before .
4 Results were much the same ,
5 The colourful pictures were much the same , the number of PWRs around the world had increased , but there was one major difference .
6 The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue .
7 For Italy the emperors established a separate hierarchy , anyway of titles , for the chapel and the chaplains were much the same wherever he was .
8 We were much the same age and more like sisters than cousins , really . ’
9 The first results of the demonstration and violence were much the same as after the Olympia meeting in 1934 ; there was an immediate stimulus to recruitment for both fascists and communists and Special Branch estimated the significant , if transient , boost to fascist membership in East London to be around 2,000 .
10 The causes of poverty were much the same in towns .
11 Superficially , the results for the lexical alternant class of ( pull ) were much the same also .
12 The problems of all the new unions were much the same .
13 The expression on his face and the expression on Nina 's were much the same .
14 Well , they were much the same , local workers .
15 Ten years ago the price had fallen to perhaps $450 per font but the restrictions were much the same .
16 Furthermore , although he had been pretty well openly accused of dishonesty at the meeting , his moral standards were much the same as Richard 's , only he did not feel he was well enough off to apply them as often , and in such a wide range of conditions , as the Skipper .
17 George 's rooms were on the first floor ; they had the traditional stolidity of a steak and kidney pie and were much the same colour .
18 After all , committees were much the same anywhere .
19 She did n't wish to dampen their enthusiasm by explaining that views from windows , various sorts of furniture or food , were much the same to her .
20 He played violin , so my interests were much the same as his , having only played classical music all my life .
21 The types of building were much the same .
22 Yes the they were much the same as they are now but er , of course the one nearest was the er spraying hanger , that 's where they used to build the Swallow side-cars , the main office building there 's a large hanger with large sliding doors at the back of there which used to house the erm experimental department for the Harvard Aircraft and erm they used to operate the flight gang from there getting the planes ready to go up to be actually tested , and then the next hanger up was very much er starting from scratch and finishing the aircraft structurally you know .
23 Edward Aveling 's interests in the signs of class were not the same as Eleanor 's .
24 As for the curves in this selection , the C13 and C14 were not the same , and therefore the work that was possible with one tool could not be repeated on its mirror image with its counterpart .
25 As it was , the Church was simply acting to preserve its interests and these were not the same as the interests of the Party .
26 Wealth was not to be flaunted , although as the children grew older they became aware that their father 's circumstances were not the same as those of brother officers who lived only on their Navy pay .
27 But a central conclusion of Tuttle , that the creatures of Laetoli were not the same species as ‘ Lucy ’ and the ‘ first family ’ of Ethiopia , was challenged immediately .
28 There was a night nurse and a day nurse but these were not the same as either ‘ family ’ or ‘ friend ’ .
29 By and large , the occasions when the nobility might exploit a situation as cavalry and those when artillery could be used to best effect were not the same .
30 When asked , ‘ Are nation and state the same , or are we talking about different things ? ’ 43% of West Germans — 81% among the most educated — gave the obvious answer that they were not the same , since two German states coexisted .
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