Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adv] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She just had to have someone to talk about Fred to , and Jane , who 'd been through exactly the same cycle of experiences with him as Doris had , only one floor below , was the ideal person . " |
2 | There are massive quartzites of similar type in the Ordovician of other parts of the world , from Bulgaria to the Canadian Rockies , but in my ignorance I will not risk saying that they are of exactly the same age . |
3 | Since the passages are of approximately the same length , it has not been felt necessary to give percentages in those parts of the table where numbers are small . |
4 | Moreover , the opening motive of this piece is duplicated in an episode of the Rousset piece ( ex.2 ) , and the two pieces are of roughly the same length and make similar technical demands . |
5 | No , well we 're , we 're in exactly the same problem with Traidcraft . |
6 | ‘ We 're in exactly the same boat . |
7 | And I fear therefore that we 're in precisely the same position as we were when the presbytery of Hamilton brought their overture to us . |
8 | This poor woman and her child are in exactly the same position as Philippe . |
9 | Scientists attempting to calculate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations are in exactly the same position : the only evidence we have for life anywhere in the Universe is confined to this planet . |
10 | It says that if an ALT can SKIP to a second ALT , which in turn can SKIP to P , then all other options in these ALTs are in exactly the same position : they might be offered , or might be ignored in favour of P. ( 2.12 ) unc The final law depends on the fact that we are only interested in minimal acceptance sets . |
11 | This surely , whatever else it means , this , for this scripture here surely means that those people who had the opportunity of accepting Christ , of responding to him , but who have rejected him , they are in exactly the same position as Pontius Pilate . |
12 | ‘ They are in exactly the same place , walking down the same path ’ — he paused , pulling back a cuff to expose his stone , circle-sized Rolex — ‘ some four thousand years ago . |
13 | I must add in all honesty and so we must face up to things that the churches at any rate in their public and visible life are in just the same state . |
14 | We are conscious , in general , of some of our memory , and the results of speech generation , though in the latter case we are in much the same position as any other observer ( cf. |
15 | Normally , one is not able to see stars in the sky that are in almost the same direction as the sun . |
16 | Children whose parents are not married to each other are in almost the same position as children whose parents have married each other , but some differences remain . |
17 | Within a period of ten days from the date of cancellation , the duty to pay the part exchange allowance will be discharged by the return of the part exchanged goods where they are in substantially the same condition as originally delivered to the negotiator ( s73(2) ) . |
18 | You 'll still be worth exactly the same amount , but the company will have more working capital . ’ |
19 | If the claims were made simply on the basis of introspection without systematic observation in the community , they would be of precisely the same order ( except that they would be unaccountable and probably much less reliable ) . |
20 | Another point to remember is that if all four pictures are to sit comfortably together in the overall design , then all the material used should be of roughly the same size . |
21 | It follows from what was said earlier that in a stress-timed language all the feet are supposed to be of roughly the same duration . |
22 | It is unlikely to be in exactly the same position , even if she could find it , for during the night there is a great deal of jostling among the youngsters and any one of them may have moved about eighteen inches or so . |
23 | I believe that , if it is established through a proper investigation that a company has been victimising workers for reporting safety concerns , that company — whether it is a contractor or an operator — must be in exactly the same position as an employee who has jeopardised the safety of a platform . |
24 | Shearer 's injury might not be on quite the same scale , but it will keep him out of qualifiers in Turkey next month , the Netherlands at home in April and the end-of-season double away to Poland on 29 May and Norway four days later . |
25 | Gramley ( p. 20 ) seems to be on much the same track when he notes , concerning I saw the library to have burned down : What the speaker saw was not an occurrence , but physical evidence for a condition , a state ; for example , the speaker saw the site , the ruins . |
26 | All the radiators should be at approximately the same temperature on a well-designed heating system — unless radiators are individually controlled by thermostats . |
27 | Each shot can be at either the same target , or at a different target within 2″ of the last one . |
28 | Each shot can be at either the same target , or at a different target within 2″ of the last one . |
29 | If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production . |
30 | If the project is to create a new manufacturing process , rather than a product , the starting point would be at much the same stage but would not go past building the plant ( stage 9 ) since there would be no question of quantity production . |