Example sentences of "be [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 .
2 Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal .
3 Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well .
4 They 've both been through the same transmogrification . ’
5 He had been through the same mill a couple of years before .
6 I suggested that help might come from friends who 'd been through the same scenario , or from genuinely sympathetic relatives ( but not critical ones ! ) .
7 Erm Works , Q S , Business Manager , B E S have been through the same process as you 're going through today .
8 Well , Walter had been through the same things , but he wanted to put them down on paper .
9 Perhaps they had some kind of masonic understanding , they 'd all been through the same initiation .
10 Of course he understood , having been through the same gruesome ordeal .
11 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 .
12 The Purchaser will not be happy if the Business consists of all the wrong kinds of assets ( peas instead of beans ) even if they are worth the same as the price paid .
13 Both graphs are for the same individual ; eight birds all gave similar results .
14 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 .
15 We are about the same size , no ?
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 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 .
18 Living costs are about the same as Britain .
19 You and Matthew are about the same age .
20 Top footballers the world over are about the same standard but the hun-grier , more aggressive animal is the victor .
21 ‘ 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 . ’
22 In other words , instead of almost doubling year by year , last we are about the same , we have n't got all the confirmations , we 're about the same as we were the year before , give or take a few , about say five percent .
23 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 ?
24 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 .
25 Or would it have been about the same ?
26 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
27 Linigan 's goal later left the forlorn Chris Waddle and his Wednesday mates in tears as Wembley became a sea of red-and-white just as it had been after the same Coca-Cola Cup scoreline a month earlier .
28 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 .
29 Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values .
30 Similarly , the interglacial periods have not been of the same duration and have presumably not resulted in equal melting of the ice .
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