Example sentences of "were the same [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I looked today in erm cash and carry sport and they were the same price . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | But some types before in the beginning all Swatches were the same price |
| 8 | but she said that they were the same price |
| 9 | But , the breasts were the same price |
| 10 | They were the same price as the other ones the ones . |
| 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 | Here one would think , and perhaps often , they were the same man ( see also below , pp. 64ff . ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Whether the " British Stewards " and the " Cooks and Stewards ' Society " were the same organisation operating under different titles is not clear . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He stood the boxes side by side and then realised that they were the same size . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The buildings were the same kind as where her faceless father had been . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 25 | They were the same sort of things that I never got invited to again . |
| 26 | But they were the same family the same Same people all through the years . |
| 27 | Loyalty and morality were the same thing to her . |
| 28 | He reminded Lanfranc of their early agreement that justice and truth were the same thing in different modes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Day and night were the same thing in this place . |