Example sentences of "were [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were about the same ’ , she writes , ‘ as the principles used in painting — get to the point as directly as you can ; never use a big word if a little one will do ’ . |
| 2 | I suppose he and Sam were about the same age , 15 or 16 . |
| 3 | All these disputes were about the same theme : the nature of the Europe that the Six wished to construct and the proper relationship between the Community and the member states . |
| 4 | However , the proportions cautioned were about the same ( at about 6 per cent . ) |
| 5 | Well , conditions were about the same , the goose irons , and the the floors that got cotton and all erm bits of material on , and everything . |
| 6 | The conditions were about the same , the wor people were very , very nice . |
| 7 | They were about the same size and thickness as credit cards . |
| 8 | Er it was found that the status items were about the same for both . |
| 9 | The two men were about the same age , nearing fifty ; both were of the lean kind with strong features and over-thin lips ; both were taciturn and found it difficult to put ideas into words . |
| 10 | They were about the same age , but the embalmer seemed older . |
| 11 | One in three householders believed bills were less than they would have been under the existing system ( of flat-rate charges ) , nearly one in five said bills were about the same , while more than one in three said they were higher . |
| 12 | Not all the results were of the same high quality ; nevertheless the music they arranged reinforced the choreographer 's design by giving the plot atmosphere , local colour , continuity and flow as well as giving the dancing its rhythmic vitality , emotion and mood . |
| 13 | To achieve it he had to work on individuals , exploiting relationships which were not open , public ones : he could not have called a meeting to appeal to everyone 's obligations as a relative by descent and by marriage , as if these were of the same kind as those of a citizen , an Arab or a Muslim . |
| 14 | The Sleeping Saloons of the same era were of the same dimensions and weighed about 40 tons . |
| 15 | The Soviet diagnostics were of the same primitive type as those used in the UK . |
| 16 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 17 | Frank had accused me before of ‘ messing up ’ the relay , and had told me that the rest of the team were of the same opinion . |
| 18 | He trusted Marian and Allen because they were of the same kind as himself — children . |
| 19 | The guerrillas were helped , however , by an educated native who discovered that Bernard Callinan was a Roman Catholic and was persuaded that others in the Company were of the same faith . |
| 20 | If every company conducted the same business , were of the same size , even had the same plans for expansion — then perhaps it would be safe to assume that their asset financing requirements , too , would be the same . |
| 21 | Three of these were of the same size as those in the front compartment : the other three were no more than five feet in length . |
| 22 | The houses here were of the same structure as the mean buildings where Hari lived but the properties were well maintained , the outsides freshly painted , the windows gleaming with cleanliness and hung with rich drapes . |
| 23 | We came to think that the two features were of the same date , as there was no construction trench cut into the rampart front for the insertion of the wall . |
| 24 | The floors were of the same wood , some bare , some covered in linoleum , and everything appeared in a state of decay . |
| 25 | In other armies , the selection process assumed that people were of the same social balance . |
| 26 | The cornices , which surrounded the walls of the sanctuary , were of the same costly material : and a broad belt or frieze of gold let into the stone-work encompassed the whole exterior of the edifice . |
| 27 | Although for the reasons stated they have thought it inappropriate to discuss in detail the reasoning of the Court of Appeal , their conclusion on this question of procedure is fortified by the fact that all four judges in the local courts were of the same opinion . |
| 28 | If they both were of the same logical type , then we could not hope to be able to clarify the distinction between numerical and species identity and the possibility of order in space or time . |
| 29 | A number were of the same place , some old village with nobody in it , the first a shot down a dusty road and the rest of individual buildings or , in some cases , of open fields enclosed by split-rail fencing . |
| 30 | Walls and floors were of the same uniform grey . |