Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] as a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The prices are the same as a holiday in Amsterdam .
2 However , the artist 's aims may not be the same as a record company's. so the manager has to vet what big business wants musicians to do .
3 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 .
4 And three twelfths is the same as a quarter is n't it .
5 Okay have you done things like erm three twelfths is the same as a quarter ? have you done that at school ?
6 So twenty five per cent is the same as a quarter
7 For example , a rise in temperature of 10°C is the same as a rise in temperature of 10 K.
8 Third , I do not accept the principle that the meaning of utterances is the same as a person 's ( alleged ) reasons for saying what he says .
9 any name which is the same as a name appearing in the index of names kept by the Registrar of Companies ( s. 714 ) ;
10 The effect of such an order under the Act is the same as a discharge in bankruptcy .
11 The price surprised him : you get a lot of car for just over £20,000 , if only in terms of its length , which is the same as a Mercedes 260E and a couple of inches more than the 5-series BMWs .
12 I mean that 's the same as a colour photograph .
13 What do we do , you must take away everything that 's in the brackets , so we take away a twenty , so that 's the same as a minus twenty and then we 'll take away a minus one , signs are the same so it 's add one .
14 My prize for the most colourful quote goes to the scientist who said that the likelihood of humans having come about as the result of evolution was the same as a tornado in a scrapyard having accidentally assembled a Jumbo jet .
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