Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further expansion was carried out on the same basis , progressively moving through the model until more specific activities started to emerge , such as those that could be associated with component 8.7 , ie reduce costs : |
| 2 | Detectives believe this attack was carried out by the same man who raped a student from Somerville college two months ago in public toilets in the city centre . |
| 3 | The drive against corporations was carried out in the same spirit ; the only reason why the Whigs and Nonconformists had grown so influential in corporation politics was because the Corporation Act of 1661 had not been properly enforced . |
| 4 | ‘ It was an obvious choice , partly because of all the business they were doing in Europe and also because the public was fed up with the same old faces ; here was someone fresh at last , ’ recalls Peter Batty , director of the him . |
| 5 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 6 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
| 7 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 8 | The judge 's decision was handed down on the same day that Exxon announced that first-quarter profits for 1991 had leapt 75% over the same period last year , to $2.24 billion . |
| 9 | With much wider powers than its predecessor , the Secondary Examinations Council ( SEC ) , SEAC is also heir to the recommendations of another of the Secretary of State 's ad hoc working parties , the Task Group on Assessment and Testing ( TGAT ) which was set up at the same time as the first curriculum working groups and , like them , worked under enormous pressure to produce proposals for the assessment of the National Curriculum . |
| 10 | The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it . |
| 11 | ‘ The aircraft turned over the breakwater and was followed out by the same intense gunfire . |
| 12 | Now she was sunk back in the same state , or perilously near to it . |
| 13 | The midwife rolled up her sleeves and toiled all night by the light of candles stuck in turnips , and just before dawn the baby was delivered on to the same straw mattress on which she had been conceived . |
| 14 | There was a lot of short-pitched bowling , with a vast array of slips and gullies , but Gooch ( 8 ) survived a low catch to Inzamam off Akram , and Stewart ( 14 ) was put down by the same fielder at full stretch off the same bowler when 14 . |