Example sentences of "were the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't keep pretending that Viola and Eleanor were the same person because Viola 's photo was signed . |
| 2 | ‘ My doctor , ’ he said , ‘ has told me that because we are both very depressive types of people , perhaps because we know what life is about that I should n't meet people who were the same way as I am and get depressed about things . ’ |
| 3 | No , not enough of a clue as to whether these were the same depredations Johnson had deplored : Elgin had suffered marauders more than once . |
| 4 | Council staff provided an estimate of the gap between rates payable in Scotland in 1990/91 and the rates that would be payable were the same system in place as is in England ( The Uniform Business Rate ) . |
| 5 | He did it again when , leaving her question hanging , he stepped closer , studied her scraped-back hairstyle , then , without so much as a by-your-leave , whipped her glasses from her nose — the better , it seemed , to check that her green eyes were the same green he had looked into during the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 6 | But I looked today in erm cash and carry sport and they were the same price . |
| 7 | Mind I saw them in tt they were the same price in erm You Ca n't Go Wrong and tt the place opposite Woolworths in Caerphilly |
| 8 | But some types before in the beginning all Swatches were the same price |
| 9 | but she said that they were the same price |
| 10 | But , the breasts were the same price |
| 11 | They were the same price as the other ones the ones . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Here one would think , and perhaps often , they were the same man ( see also below , pp. 64ff . ) . |
| 14 | According to the map it was there , but the fact that the dwellings seemed half hidden by the trees and were the same colour as the desert gave me a tinge of doubt . |
| 15 | Whether the " British Stewards " and the " Cooks and Stewards ' Society " were the same organisation operating under different titles is not clear . |
| 16 | They were the same type — the off-the-peg evil mastermind — but Kruger was too much a part of this screwy Dream to host a real mind . |
| 17 | The low security inmates they 're talking about were the same type of inmates who were at Wymott prison and caused 36 million pounds of damage . |
| 18 | The men who lived at the graphite pits in 1898 — 9 were the same persons who would be likely to get up in the middle of the night to help take stolen cattle five kilometres to the next relay team , thereby earning a little money and easing the tedium of village life . |
| 19 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 20 | I believe these were the same greenhouses that suffered an attack later by G P Aird AFC when he ejected from Lightning XG332 on September 13 , 1963 following a double reheat fire warning . |
| 21 | For example both children knew that bricks A and B were the same size , but , when viewed through portholes in a box , A looked bigger to one child and B looked bigger to the partner . |
| 22 | He stood the boxes side by side and then realised that they were the same size . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 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 | Certainly , when anaesthesia , for example , was first introduced , there were the same debates as there are now over the care of VLBW babies , about its experimental nature and the long- and short-term effects of using it . |
| 26 | Bringing a copy of this picture to the instrument for comparison only served to show how right these first impressions were ( illus.2 ) : there were the same keys , the characteristically carved end-blocks , the lockboard batten and the nicely rounded crown on the spine adjacent , the colour of the veneer , the same stop knob in the same place — and leaning against this harpsichord the most revered of all ‘ English ’ composers , Handel himself ! |
| 27 | The buildings were the same kind as where her faceless father had been . |
| 28 | The elections in Ajdabiya and Kufra were the same kind of apparently inappropriate action ; the demands for autonomy , for independence of the state made by people of whom two thirds are employed by it , seem also to require some explanation . |
| 29 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 30 | 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 . |