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

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1 An old and enduring model of sexual difference , developed most powerfully and resiliently by Galen in the second century AD , had stressed the homologous nature of male and female reproductive organs ; women were said to have the same genitals as men , only inside rather than outside .
2 During the first half of the century efforts were made to extend the same technique to the various kinds of animals as well as plants , so that naturalists had access to a vast body of information about the geographical distribution of living things .
3 Sibelius and Stenhammar were shown setting the same text ( The Girl returned from meeting her lover ) with Stenhammar providing a sharp , sweet , highly contrasted little folkloric scena complete with sad introductory Schubertian piano tune .
4 The mutant enzymes were found to give the same ratio ( data not shown ) .
5 Five angraecoid species were found to share the same pollinator , Panogena lingens , but ethological and mechanical mechanisms apparently restrict interspecific pollination despite mixed pollen loads .
6 Former athletes who took no further exercise were found to have the same risk factor for a heart attack as those who had never been active .
7 All cell lines were found to have the same basal concentration of cAMP .
8 So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals .
9 Betty Irving , deputy head of Musselburgh Burgh Primary School , said : ‘ When we were there , it was a wonderful week and we were determined to do the same for them .
10 From Yugoslavia Tito 's regular and partisan troops were poised to enter the same southern part of Austria as the British .
11 The best performance results were obtained using the same constrained finite state grammar as HARPY with an average branching ratio of 10 .
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