Example sentences of "[num] be [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three so she 'd say , Oh you know mind I 've cut it up a bit do you you should n't it 's still a quarter still a quarter you have n't lost a bit of it but it 's still a quarter three twelfths is the same as a quarter . |
| 2 | And three twelfths is the same as a quarter is n't it . |
| 3 | Okay have you done things like erm three twelfths is the same as a quarter ? have you done that at school ? |
| 4 | The Greek civil war of 1946–49 — less than half a century ago in fact , but merely yesterday in the politics of south-east Europe — was the last great European left-versus-right convulsion ; by comparison , the Hungarian rebellion of 1956 was no more than a bloody skirmish . |
| 5 | Together with the data from the transits of Mercury , this re-interpretation of the old records led to the conclusion that the maximum extent of any change on the Sun 's radius since 1850 was no more than a decline of 0.08 seconds of arc per century , with a possible error range of plus or minus 0.07 . |
| 6 | The 1961 Programme , for instance , had defined itself as a ‘ Programme for the building of communist society ’ ; the revised version of 1986 was no more than a Programme for the ‘ planned and all-round perfection of socialism ’ and for further advance to communism through the country 's ‘ accelerated socio-economic development ’ . |
| 7 | Everything that occurred in the educational sphere after 1927 was no more than a " clearing-up " operation . |