Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] were the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they were the same age , they thought the Russells Hall pupils would be much bigger than them . |
| 2 | He stood the boxes side by side and then realised that they were the same size . |
| 3 | It seemed highly unlikely that they were the same animals , and the verbal description of them did not fit that of the two rehomed dogs . |
| 4 | It took five months of telephone calls , letters and faxes to Dr Neil Sontag , before a replacement set arrived , only to find that they were the same , unusable version . |
| 5 | The pupils decided that they were the same in that context and were satisfied that there were only three different shapes if they did not allow fences in the middle or squares just touching at the corners . |
| 6 | In this case , I am going to assume that there were only girls on the island , and also that they were the same ages and from the same middle-class English background as the boys . |
| 7 | but she said that they were the same price |
| 8 | Perhaps by my middle-aged presence , the suggestion that Flora and I were the same age ? |
| 9 | I felt that he and I were the same sort of person , that there was something in my brain and heart , in my blood and bone , that connected me to him for ever . |
| 10 | Matt and I were the same age within a month but Alfred was two or three years older and Maurice quite a bit younger . |
| 11 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 12 | It was grown now , and a good bit taller than me , but when I was young and we were the same size it had been my static catapult defending the southerly approaches to the island . |
| 13 | Well I suppose probably people li like nursemaids and er and er what they used to call in those days mothers ' helps , who used to sort of be a general skivvy around the house and would look after the children , and , and , and they were the same , they had to be in I think at , at sort of ten o'clock at night . |
| 14 | But I looked today in erm cash and carry sport and they were the same price . |
| 15 | The second , related one is about the reasons for treating all people as if they were the same , regardless of their individual peculiarities of sex and gender . |
| 16 | Preston looked at him and wondered if they were the same nightmares he had . |
| 17 | However , in most of what follows , we shall treat theorem proving and other cases of monotonic search as if they were the same . |
| 18 | It is no wonder that what we see becomes identified with , and spoken of as if it were the same as , what we touch . |
| 19 | Ideas about the abnormality of disabled people that arise out of research based on adding together the particular psychological attributes of individual disabled people are then systematically misleading , since they fail to include ‘ social forces , structural features of society , institutional factors and so on ’ ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 122 ) in their explanations — in other words , because they treat disability as if it were the same thing as impairment . |
| 20 | But you were the same age , you might have known or heard things about her that adults would not know . ’ |
| 21 | Yesterday they were spewed out in the aftermath of the Musgrave Park Hospital outrage but they were the same words which Mr Brooke and his predecessors have used time and time again after other bloody acts of terrorism . |
| 22 | But they were the same family the same Same people all through the years . |
| 23 | We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another . |
| 24 | Sometimes I would have a gull and a crow but , whether they were the same species or not , they quickly found out they could n't fly properly — though the twine was long enough in theory — and ended up ( after a few hilariously clumsy aerobatics ) fighting . |
| 25 | ‘ Better than what ? ’ she asked innocently , thinking that two could play at that game of acting as though everything were the same as it had always been . |