Example sentences of "be [prep] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've both been through the same transmogrification . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps they had some kind of masonic understanding , they 'd all been through the same initiation . |
| 3 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 4 | Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal . |
| 5 | I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 . |
| 6 | Erm Works , Q S , Business Manager , B E S have been through the same process as you 're going through today . |
| 7 | I suggested that help might come from friends who 'd been through the same scenario , or from genuinely sympathetic relatives ( but not critical ones ! ) . |
| 8 | At the end she left I said do ring Cathy if you feel like it because I 'm sure she wo n't mind well it would be nice for us to find out who 's been through the same thing recently . |
| 9 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 10 | Both graphs are for the same individual ; eight birds all gave similar results . |
| 11 | No , whoops , I might have put one on top of the other when it should have been the other way round , so always have this check , er does the answer look , I mean , no , you ca n't always tell , but sometimes you can , sometimes you can think well those two are about the same price per gram , are n't they ? |
| 12 | We are about the same size , no ? |
| 13 | Nigel and I are about the same size , so no adjustments were needed , but the instant impression , on moving the black semi-circular yoke atop the long curving control column , was of absolute silky smoothness . |
| 14 | In his new job Mr Riddell will be chief executive of the UK and European operations , which are about the same size as the whole group was when he left . |
| 15 | Top footballers the world over are about the same standard but the hun-grier , more aggressive animal is the victor . |
| 16 | In T.buttikoferi the light and dark bands are about the same width , but in T.joka the dark ones are about 3–4 times as wide as the light . |
| 17 | You and Matthew are about the same age . |
| 18 | ‘ They are about the same age and build , a man and a woman , but beyond that — Some inflammable substance had been poured on them , almost certainly petrol . ’ |
| 19 | House Funnily enough I was going to say to you when we were out at erm Dartington instead of buying that ice cream , we should of had a cup of tea probably would of been about the same price , and so |
| 20 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 21 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 22 | Similarly , the interglacial periods have not been of the same duration and have presumably not resulted in equal melting of the ice . |
| 23 | This is zero only if the distribution is monodisperse , that is , all molecules are of the same size , and we have which is . |
| 24 | A. Discus would normally begin to display courtship at the age of nine months , so it is possible that all your Discus are of the same sex . |
| 25 | If two Discus lash their back quarters against each other , then you can assume these are of the same sex . |
| 26 | Such a view ignores the tremendous structural inequalities within society ; it assumes that ethnicity , gender and class do not influence educational achievements and that all schools are of the same character . |
| 27 | The images of vision are of the same order as creative ideas , but the mind must be aimed at the horizon , and the thoughts must be concentrated in the emotion of creativity . |
| 28 | The idea of a view and the vision of Boullee are of the same order of thought and sight . |
| 29 | The differences between them are of the same order as the differences between modern Dutch and standard German : the Brut retains the OE case-inflexions and grammatical gender , whereas the Peterborough Chronicle , even though it is an earlier document , has lost most of these . |
| 30 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |