Example sentences of "which [was/were] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although one of the gowns sent by Tamar was quite deep brown in colour , the other was of a pretty shade of blue , which would set off Martha 's eyes , which were the same deep blue as her father 's . |
| 2 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 3 | There are procedures to be gone through which were the same as for Mrs Thatcher 's proposal |
| 4 | and then Brenda ran up to explain breathlessly that she did n't think the van would go under the low bridge , as her daddy 's — which was the same size — would n't . |
| 5 | The sun was still bright as we approached the Quigleys ' house but it did n't seem to have reached their road , which was the same as it ever was : dank and green and desperately quiet . |
| 6 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |