Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where necessary , new bridges , such as the Pont Saint-Michel , were built to cross the Seine , whose quays were developed at the same time as arteries for traffic . |
| 2 | For example , the freesia buds are quite thick and , if they were placed in the same layer as the petals , they would prevent the thin flowers from receiving even pressure from the weight above . |
| 3 | Counting was slow due to the complex voting system and to the fact that separate voting papers for the three abortion referendums [ see below ] were placed in the same ballot boxes . |
| 4 | An adequate explanation must both make clear what an action means to the participants , and how far the same outcome would result if different people were placed in the same context . |
| 5 | Cities such as Glasgow and Edinburgh were placed in the same sort of category as non-metropolitan districts in England although they had populations larger than the more rural regions and all the island councils . |
| 6 | It was labelled as such by a London coroner recently , after four inquests on suicides were heard in the same court within a week . |
| 7 | Work began on two new , larger , masonry granaries , although they were situated on the same site . |
| 8 | Any nominated initials/sex identity codes which occurred more than once were treated as the same person . |
| 9 | In early computers , as mentioned above , input/output ( or transput ) operations were treated in the same way as internal operations ( such as addition ) ; once the operation had been started , the control unit awaited its completion , before continuing with the extraction , decoding , and execution of the next instruction . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They were formed at the same time as the Quakers , actually , in sixteen fifty-two , and the main erm belief of the group was that John Reeve and his cousin Ludowick Muddleton were the two prophets who 'd been chosen by God as the last witnesses in the Book of Revelation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In other words , two homologous structures were formed in the same way in two closely-related groups , though their development diverged , in the course of evolution , to adapt the structure for two different lifestyles . |
| 14 | The diminutive but pleasant cliffs at nearby Brassington and Harborough were formed in the same way . |
| 15 | The two parts of the base were joined in the same way , the lower loops of the ropework being added at the same time . |
| 16 | Another four mice were exposed to the same lamp with a glass cover on it . |
| 17 | Radiographs of the various individual heads taken for the Museum of Modern Art show that originally the faces of the figures at the right were painted in the same idiom as that of the figure at the left.1 Since the head of the standing figure represents an intermediate stage between that of the figure at the left and the one directly below it , it follows that the squatting figure , the still life and the drapery at the right were the last parts of the picture to be painted . |
| 18 | The allegations were dismissed on the same day by an Egyptian Interior Ministry official , who cited a small number of cases of abuses by policemen but claimed that they had been properly investigated . |
| 19 | The statutes of the institute were altered at the same time to give Servan-Schreiber executive control . |
| 20 | This indicates that the two denominations were minted in the same part of his reign . |
| 21 | The stock dove almost disappeared from some areas , but , like other species that were hard-hit at the same time , it has since made a good recovery . |
| 22 | You believe we were attacked for the same reason and probably by the same person . |
| 23 | Russell Mulford was quizmaster , and teams were picked on the same principle as before . |
| 24 | However , there is wide scope for creating designs with a botanical feel , and in the picture shown on the facing page , I decided to use the leaves and buds that were picked from the same plant as the main flowers , thus creating a design that was botanically correct . |
| 25 | The only logical conclusion is that Brampton and Vechey were hanged by the same person . ’ |
| 26 | Both of the great Montreal CPR stations , Windsor ( 1888 ) and Place Viger , were designed by the same architect , Bruce Price , in the heavy Richardsonian Romanesque manner . |
| 27 | Control cells were transfected with the same amount of Bluescribe DNA . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Garscadden complained that the provisions for Scotland and for England were included in the same Bill . |
| 29 | Ancistrus hoplogenys were added at the same time as the Corys . |
| 30 | I originally had this idea through the workers union in Manchester , and I was wondering if there were any comparative studies that were happening at the same time , and that would be really interesting to see how Oxford compares to other areas . |