Example sentences of "[noun] were [vb pp] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed .
2 The walls of Caen were constructed in the years following Edward III 's capture of the town in 1346 ; those of Rouen were begun at the same time on the orders of Philip VI , making the city one of the few properly defended towns , or ‘ villes closes ’ of upper Normandy ; Avignon 's wall was started at the instigation of Pope Innocent VI about 1355 ; while the defences of Tours , in course of construction in 1356 , were probably sufficiently advanced to deter the Black Prince from attacking the town on his chevauchée in the summer of that year .
3 For this reason the constables of many royal castles were appointed at the same time to be wardens of neighbouring forests : the constable of Rockingham castle was usually warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges ; the constable of Porchester kept Bere Porchester Forest ; the constable of Devizes kept Chippenham and Melksham Forests ; the constable of St Briavels the Forest of Dean ; the constable of Castleton the Forest of the Peak ; and the constable of Windsor castle was also warden of Windsor Forest .
4 Height and weight were measured by the same observer ( AT ) in all patients at the time of study .
5 Acid , pepsin , and sialic acid outputs were determined under the same conditions .
6 A further 36,000 teenage pregnancies were aborted in the same year ( Wells , 1983 ) .
7 As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang as singles players , but neither has made quite the same impact as yet .
8 As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , but neither has made the same impact as yet .
9 The first use of it in British diplomacy seems to have been by the Paris embassy in December 1852 : by the middle of the following year the missions in Vienna , Berlin and Florence could also communicate in this way with London , and from 1878 British diplomatic telegrams were numbered in the same way as despatches .
10 Subjects were studied at the same time of day on four occasions at least seven days apart .
11 I do n't want to document my thesis at length , but Slovak conflict with Czechs , Croat conflict with Serbs , could not exist before 1918 when these peoples were put into the same states .
12 Clement Attlee announced that the British Empire and Commonwealth , being based on Christian principles , was ‘ the exact contrast to the Nazi conception of a world order ’ , which was the expression of the creed of Antichrist , and countless other speeches were made in the same vein .
13 Popular culture , thus , and high modernism were born in the same places at about the same time .
14 The playful little animals were abandoned on the same day they were thoughtlessly handed over as presents .
15 Thousands of their supporters were charged with the same offence .
16 The enumerations were performed by the same investigator ( LH ) throughout the study .
17 She and Cati were born into the same family , went to the same school , heard the same sermons on Sundays and feast days , and often confessed to the same priest ; but Cati liked to cover herself in guilt , a kind of protective clothing that her elder sister had once inspected , tried on for size , and then discarded .
18 As the Zechstein progressed , the thickest part of each successive lens developed further into the basin and the facies belts were displaced in the same direction ( Figs. 3 and 4 ) .
19 The only logical conclusion is that Brampton and Vechey were hanged by the same person . ’
20 To the extent that spiritual and temporal functions were united in the same house , by the same blood , the union would be doubly consecrated , doubly sanctified , and the unity of the nation all the more hallowed .
21 Bacterial overgrowth rats were prepared in the same way as described previously .
22 Traditionally it has been thought that meteorites were formed at the same time as the solar planets , and the composition of them was used as a ‘ fossil guide ’ to the make-up of the planets .
23 The hon. Member for Garscadden complained that the provisions for Scotland and for England were included in the same Bill .
24 And as we believe that erm the earth and the sun were formed at the same time , so we 're starting to know a lot more about the original material from which the sun and the earth were formed , and here we find that it 's just full of prebiotic molecules which we did not know beforehand and therefore puts a different perspective on what we think the earth 's early atmosphere might have been .
25 About halfway between Venice and the modern city of Trieste there is another island lagoon formation at Grado , where settlements were established at the same time as those in the Venetian lagoon .
26 The statutes of the institute were altered at the same time to give Servan-Schreiber executive control .
27 This indicates that the two denominations were minted in the same part of his reign .
28 Another four mice were exposed to the same lamp with a glass cover on it .
29 Group directors and national directors were committed to the same goals .
30 According to Murimuth the bestowal of titles on the six earls was followed by the dubbing of twenty-four new knights , and other nobles were rewarded at the same time .
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