Example sentences of "be [art] [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder whether the umpire 's attitude would have been the same if the offender had been his opponent , the comparatively unknown Grant Connell . |
| 2 | They had three hundred and seventy three live children between them and on average they should of had twenty seven children with birth defects if they 'd been the same as the rest of the population , the non-criminal , non-prison erm erm erm non-prison population . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , as has been said previously , the principles by which claims are handled are the same whether a Writ is served or not , and it is , therefore , of paramount importance that the insurer should not feel that he must defer to the advice of his solicitor once proceedings are raised . |
| 4 | However , he held that the criteria of unfairness are the same whether the trial judge is exercising his discretion at common law or under the statute . |
| 5 | Although automatic edit controllers can be included in the set-up to simplify and speed up the process , the basic essentials are the same whether the job is done automatically or manually . |
| 6 | The materials used are the same but the weaving methods are completely different : |
| 7 | You know so make sure the units are the same and the scale is the same so you 're using the same number of squares for each one . |
| 8 | The prices are the same as a holiday in Amsterdam . |
| 9 | This is adequate for left shift , at least as long as the bits shifted out are the same as the sign bit . |
| 10 | Hopefully they 're are the same as the ring , if not tick the other one . |
| 11 | Farmers whose premium rights are the same as the number of ewes in their 1993 claim can not transfer any quota , ’ the ministry added . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're no more than a blackmailer ! ’ |
| 13 | More often than not , they 're no more than a glass through which the all-important text is transmitted . |
| 14 | Subsequently what had been no more than a name implying a certain diplomatic affiliation between the Franks and Valentinian must have been interpreted as providing a genuine indication of the origins of the Franks . |
| 15 | On this occasion congress exercised its constitutional right to declare war , but , in retrospect , this seems to have been no more than a case of going through the motions — the age of crisis was well underway and the constitutional balance of powers would never be the same again . |
| 16 | Though Mosley was represented to future generations as if he had been no more than a gutter politician and demagogue , the truth was that he had first attracted sympathy — if not support from many political figures who were subsequently to disown him . |
| 17 | This done it soon became clear that Clairvaux had been no more than a pretext and that the real problems lay elsewhere . |
| 18 | To begin with , only the coincidence of the deaths of father and son within four days of each other ; beyond that his notion of a connection had been no more than a hunch , and he had been in the business too long to back his hunches far ahead of evidence . |
| 19 | For her , their lovemaking might have been an almost mystical fusing of bodies and identities , yet for him it had been no more than a roll in the hay . |
| 20 | Burun guessed that Kiku had been no more than a hair's-breadth away from being impaled on the st'lyan 's gilden horn . |
| 21 | Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider . |
| 22 | This suggests that the fall in equity prices in October 1987 may have been no more than a correction to the market . |
| 23 | When she 'd moved in , it had been no more than a yard full of builders ' rubbish . |
| 24 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
| 25 | The account is and has been no more than a conduit , the defendant holding its funds with a Scottish bank in Glasgow . |
| 26 | If she felt hurt at the realisation that his affectionate gestures had been no more than a front — well , it could only be because her ego was wounded . |
| 27 | The efforts — and prison sentences — of the unofficial peace movement had redeemed the similarly contaminated word peace , but ‘ in my country , for ages now , socialism has been no more than an incantation that should be avoided if one does not wish to appear suspect . ’ |
| 28 | Veneers appear in the 1880s although an eighteenth-century example was discovered during the 1983–4 excavations at St Augustine-the-Less , Bristol , but this might have been no more than an attempt on the part of the coffin-maker to mask some splits at the shoulder caused by over-zealous saw-cuts when kerfing . |
| 29 | In the final analysis the entrepreneurial solution would have been no more than an evasion of the underlying causes of Nizan 's personal crisis of 1926–27 . |
| 30 | In what sense do these mark a crossroads while the others are no more than a widening of the road ? |