Example sentences of "was [art] [det] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only real characteristic of each day was that it was the same as the day before and to give any account of such days in strict sequence would make as tedious reading as it made tedious living . |
| 2 | It was the same as the monogram on the handkerchief . |
| 3 | No , no , I , I wa I was actually referring to the , the nature of , and the , whether if Shropshire was the same as the national . |
| 4 | The order of genes in these transfer vectors was the same as the order of cloning sites from left to right in pAcAB3 and pAcAB4 ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ They just assumed my house was the same as the rest around here — big and worth a lot of money . |
| 6 | In Ancient Egypt , where the term for wife was the same as the term for sister , and men frequently married sisters who were full siblings , the distinction seems to have disappeared altogether . |
| 7 | Production-wise , The Quatermass Experiment was the same as The Time Machine , save for two small , but significant additions . |
| 8 | The apex of military command was the same as the apex of the civilian structure . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Dagenham — greatly to his political peril — refuses to acknowledge the resentment that was felt by those living alone because their liability under the rating system was the same as the family living in a similar property next door . |
| 10 | On the one hand there have been those who have claimed that , at least in the early days , the campaign was no more than the minority group Moral Re-Armament ( MRA ) by a different name ; on the other there is Mrs Whitehouse herself , who clearly believes that the organisation represents the ‘ silent majority ’ in the country . |
| 11 | Later , I asked myself whether in my extremity I , the helpless , had been seeking , as the hymn said , the help of God , and that in the act of seeking it , I had been granted it ( he who seeks God , said Pascal , has already found him ) ; or whether this spontaneous welling-up of emotion from the depths of my being was no more than the expression of a statement to myself . |
| 12 | He says the real Shakespeare was no more than the man who looked after the horses and the costumes . |
| 13 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 14 | But this was no more than the beginning ; for by now they knew very well that there were French knights fighting with the Scottish companies , and in fair numbers , too , and the south of England had been warned to look to its defences in case of a direct assault from across the channel . |
| 15 | The views of the local parties were less clearcut — although the National Union itself was no more than the sum of the local party leaders . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , she believed , it was no more than the gesture of a tired and grateful man . |
| 17 | In retrospect I think it was no more than the truth . |
| 18 | It was no more than the truth . |
| 19 | It was no more than the truth but showed , surely that her sister was not forgetting the fact . |
| 20 | But it was no more than the truth . |