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

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1 The scientific name has the great advantage of being the same all over the world , so the language of nomenclature is a truly international one .
2 The obligations to be dealt with are the same , but the approach is very different as between the buyer and the seller .
3 Too often they are forced into being the same .
4 Every room she looked into was the same .
5 They are far from being the same or even similar , and you can check this by comparing the analysis on the packets .
6 By repetition , he did not mean that every time a phrase was repeated it had to be the same .
7 The manager 's commission does n't have to be the same on everything , and my initial rates with the straits were set by their lawyer at the beginning of our relationship .
8 Unfortunately , it appeared to be the same half that I had picked to explore .
9 On Wednesday , Paddy Ashdown played the tough talker , the straight man who wo n't soften the harsh realities — though those realities immediately turn out to be the same smooth bribes offered by every other politician .
10 ‘ I expect that to be the same this time , but a fortnight away from Russia is a long time and things change so quickly , ’ said the bespectacled runner .
11 The Kuwaitis certainly did not share their thinking with Sir Peter , but the message from the Gulf seems to be the same as the message from the London market — Lloyds is out of the running .
12 ‘ Carol Barratt is going to be looked after for the rest of her life , and looked after well , whereas life for us is never going to be the same again . ’
13 Miller believed Bartram 's Dwarf Cherry to be the same as he had figured ; he had received the stones via Paris and Canada and , easily propagated , it was now common in gardens .
14 In the UK , GDP fell 2 per cent ( estimate ) in 1991 , against a forecast 0.5 per cent rise — and the figure for Europe is likely to be the same , Dicks reported .
15 Remember that you 're going abroad because it 's different so please do n't expect it to be the same as home !
16 The transfer ratios differ in different applications of what might appear to be the same thing : V8 Ninety — 1.222:1 ; V8 One Ten — 1.410:1 and V8 Range Rover — 1.192:1 .
17 Even where the media report sightings of what are apparently other phenomena , they often turn out to be the same species .
18 The colours used on the façade of the palace are said to be the same as those originally used .
19 The general sequence of operation tends to be the same for all types with a pre-rinse , to purge the food residues , followed by a hot caustic wash and then a highly diluted cold acid rinse .
20 Cancer is not one disease but many , and the answers are unlikely to be the same for all of them .
21 Re-isolation from the baboon showed the organism to be the same one as that originally isolated from a baby 's sticky eye .
22 But politicizing the curriculum is not the same ( and the authors probably would not suppose it to be the same ) as broadening it .
23 He still seems to me to be the same person now as he was when we first started working with them .
24 Bones was fed and happy , and Hoomey wanted to be the same .
25 Agnes watched the young , plump , matronly lady look at the young man , whom she imagined to be the same age as his wife .
26 From this time , nothing was ever to be the same again .
27 The world was never to be the same again , but when everything has been changed , nothing is changed .
28 Their talk and behaviour took a slightly different form from ours just as their uniforms did and for the same reason but their major premises seemed to be the same .
29 When he was asked why he himself did not become one , he replied that all men wanted to be Senators but he did not ; he did not want to be the same as other men who were as the uncoloured cloth of the Toga but he wished to be the red , that small and brilliant portion which causes the rest to be comely and beautiful .
30 This state of detachment is in some ways like the discrimination of Shankara in which all things are seen to be the same though they possess the illusion of being different .
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