Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under many circumstances , the evolutionarily stable allocation to male and female reproductive functions should be about the same . |
| 2 | Last year 's deficit was about £125 million ( although this compares well with the comparable figure for the UK which is almost three times higher ) and this year the deficit will probably be about the same . |
| 3 | The set part of the sentence should be about the same length as the variable part which is used to finish it . |
| 4 | His kids must be about the same age . ’ |
| 5 | The natural litter of the foster mother should be about the same age as the animals to be fostered . |
| 6 | It would be expected that if there was no right field advantage for a stimulus then the RFA would be aproximately 0.5 as the values for the left and right visual field would be about the same . |
| 7 | Their only conceptual connection was that someone ( often a foreign observer ) had produced numbers about one phenomenon that could be correlated with numbers from other societies purporting to be about the same phenomenon . |
| 8 | So good rule is work out the easy one first , now they 're going to be about the same , erm , otherwise they would n't be asking |
| 9 | The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top . |
| 10 | Right and again ten years , monthly premium , and that will be about the same , about ten pounds a month , something like that ? |
| 11 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
| 12 | Different people solving slightly different problems in separate rooms create no difficulty — until they come to communicate their solutions , which are assumed to be for the same problem . |
| 13 | A sweet young thing from Smash Hits is n't going to be after the same kind of material as some cerebral haircut boy from Melody Maker or a hack from your local paper . |
| 14 | The mind puts together certain things and deems them to be of the same kind . |
| 15 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 16 | Colonel Peter Young was a popular officer , well liked by everyone , always seemed to be of the same temperament , in action , or sitting at the bar in a country inn . |
| 17 | For helices to entwine together they must be of the same handedness , like the strands of a rope . |
| 18 | To be harmonic , simple radiating curves should be of the same hand . |
| 19 | When rooted by the autumn and replanted this would , in due course , become a fine bush and one superior to those budded or grafted because its suckers would be of the same kind . |
| 20 | The matter has received our closest and most careful consideration and although the details were worked on in 1886 for another canal in the Manchester district ( but not used ) they are all to all intents and purposes equally applicable to the Grand Union Canal , when that canal is improved , to be of the same working capacity as the Grand Junction Canal and to carry the same vessels . |
| 21 | This model did not have to be of the same sex . |
| 22 | Side-reins should be of the same length and of a length which encourages the horse to hold himself in a balanced outline . |
| 23 | Such a negative criterion could be that the parties should not be of the same sex , as could be the notion that one party should not be an animal . |
| 24 | It need not be exactly the same work but must be of the same nature and capacity and at the same place . |
| 25 | Hibberds workshops behind the shop were beautifully timbered , not a straight line to be seen anywhere , whilst the Post Office buildings , including an old bakehouse , appeared to be of the same period . |
| 26 | In one text Paul appears to be of the same view ; but in another Papinian takes the opposite line , on the basis that the testator had in mind not that payment should be made only if a condition of surviving to a certain age was met , but that payment should be deferred to that point in time . |
| 27 | In addition , as a ley , the markers could all be of the same age . |
| 28 | If several powerheads are being used , they should all be of the same make and power rating to provide maximum efficiency . |
| 29 | The transcendental practices of the Australia Aborigines seem to be of the same order as those of the Tibetan practices , even if not so highly developed . |
| 30 | In this case , the transfer is being made off a camcorder which is acting as the source-machine ; the record-machine is a VCR which need not be of the same format . |