Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of voters identifying with the Conservative party is about the same as in 1964 ( although Labour 's fall has been steep ) and the party 's share of the vote in 1983 and 1987 was actually slightly less than in 1979 . |
| 2 | It is about the same as we can anticipate in the next century , on the basis of currently predicted rates of greenhouse warming , according to scientists like Tom Wigley , Director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia . |
| 3 | This is despite the fact that its acreage of farmland is about the same as that of the United States , a nation that has become the world 's greatest grain exporter . |
| 4 | And as for the future , the economist 's forecast is about the same as the weatherman 's : cloudy at best , more likely bleak . |
| 5 | The next step , then , is to ask a good friend ( preferably one whose height is about the same as yours and whose appearance you admire ) to take his or her own measurements . |
| 6 | Niort is about the same distance by the parallel N150 . |
| 7 | The water vole is about the same size as a brown rat , but with blunter features , smaller ears , a furry tail and a more gingery coat . |
| 8 | The beach is five minutes away , the nightlife in the new town is about the same , and the main shopping areas of town are a short stroll away . |
| 9 | The sandy beach is only 200 metres away to the left of the hotel and the main late nightlife is about the same distance to the right . |
| 10 | EMMA is about the same age , dressed in a longish navy skirt and low-heeled courts . |
| 11 | It is about the same size as Rye . |
| 12 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
| 13 | It is interesting to note that farther to the west , in southern Oldenburg and at the Ems estuary , where Kupferschiefer is underlain by thin Rotliegendes and flat lying Upper Carboniferous , vitrinite reflectance is about the same in the Kupferschiefer and at the top Carboniferous , thus reflecting the predominance of recoalification . |
| 14 | In these regions the present depth of the top surface Carboniferous does not control the rank of coal : in the Bevergern 1 borehole , where it drops to 2550 m , the vitrinite reflectance is about the same ( 1.15% Rm ) as in the boreholes Münsterland 1 and Südkirchen 1 where the top Carboniferous lies at much shallower depths ( Südkirchen 1 at 806 m with Westphalian A ) . |
| 15 | They verified both predictions , and calculated the effective mass of a moving soliton. it is about the same as an electron 's mass . |
| 16 | A quick check with Table 1 will show that the extra cost for dual/instruction is about the same in both countries , averaging £10.20 per hour for the USA and £9.73 per hour ex-VAT for the UK . |
| 17 | The standard size of a bath is 1700 x 700mm , which is about the same as the old 5ft 7in x 2ft 4in bath , which you might be replacing . |
| 18 | In U.S.A. the consumption of steel per head is about the same , 1,100 lb. , but the consumption of timber per head is much more , about 2,400 lb . |
| 19 | Very , very roughly , however , the cost of ‘ industrial ’ timber is about the same as that of commercial mild steel per lb . |
| 20 | ‘ I once heard her say ’ , Hortensia went on , ‘ that a large boy is about the same weight as an Olympic hammer and therefore he 's very useful for practising with . ’ |
| 21 | The new slimline Lynx 2 is about the same size as the Game Gear . |
| 22 | Tear resistance is about the same as texturised nylon but abrasion resistance is less . |
| 23 | It is about the same size as its jungle relative , weighing up to 100 lb ( 45 kg ) and measuring , nose to tail , as much as 7 ½ ft ( 2.3 m ) . |
| 24 | Unix , which is about the same age , just is n't as bullet-proof , it says . |
| 25 | If the mass is about the same as that of the Sun , the core will shrink when the hydrogen runs low , while the outer layers will expand and cool . |
| 26 | Stroke risk decreases significantly in two years and is about the same as for nonsmokers after five years [ 8 ] . |
| 27 | The abortion ratio for teenagers in England and Wales of about 500 per 1,000 live births is about the same as that of other industrial countries except for Japan , Denmark , and Sweden where the ratio is about 1,500 per 1,000 live births ( Clearie et al . |
| 28 | Right you then get your baby , you 'll see the midwives doing this , you stabilize the baby pelvis , because otherwise it will just sort of go all over the place wo n't it , and this doll is , is fairly fixed , it 's not a very soft thing like a baby and you , with your hand you put your finger which is about the same length as the baby 's finger is n't it ? |
| 29 | It was er The village centre is about the same as it was when I was a boy , more busier of course , all the private houses that were on the front , you know , Street ? |
| 30 | To make the buoyancy up to competition standards the foam is longer than used in similar models though overall the Aqua-Pak is about the same length . |