Example sentences of "[noun] [is] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( A favourite way of disposing of demons is the same trick as is used to deal with miracles : assign them to the New Testament era , where they can do no harm or cause any embarrassment . ) |
| 2 | So you 're going to follow through in position one , and erm if the situation allows it and there 's not much traffic on the roundabout and you can see that the exit side is the same width as the entry side , is there anything wrong in following round in that position ? |
| 3 | You then add together all the contributions from all the different paths and — hey presto ! — the result is the same probability amplitude which you would have calculated by the more pedestrian procedure of solving the Schrödinger equation . |
| 4 | Harvey Newbegin is the same sign as me : Gemini . |
| 5 | This circle self-inverts ; that is , its inverse is the same circle . |
| 6 | But [ since m is the least element of S we have ] |
| 7 | This proposition , admittedly , is not without its difficulties when the sovereign is the same person in two or more realms where her ministers may tender divergent or opposing advice on the same subject ; but so far the possibilities involved in these different capacities of the sovereign have not caused embarrassment in practice . |
| 8 | Yeah , the trouble with the steering lock is the same Ford or an Astra . |
| 9 | Rape is the most gender specific of all crimes : only a man over 14 can be the actual perpetrator , only a woman the victim . |
| 10 | For for fourteen er years ago when I studied erm communications at one of the things he said was the Sun paragraph would be short short of twenty words , whereas the tabloids would probably qualities they er full size papers would probably be longer , but interestingly enough the this introduction the introduction of the story about Princess Diana in the Sun is the same length as introduction about the story of Princess Diana in the Independent . |
| 11 | The Doric Order is also used and the column is the same height as the Trajan one , that is 115 feet . |
| 12 | Testing is the same sort of thing but this brings out the different functions that I talked about either summations or or products . |
| 13 | Another senior Member of the Conservative party to have expressed his anxiety is the former vice-chairman , Sir Tom Arnold , Member for Hazel Grove . |
| 14 | Laughter is the same language the world over , and the sense of pride and group identity which is engendered when a group tells another about who it is and where they came from is a critical factor in the cementation of the group and fostering of indigenous skills . |
| 15 | The engine is the same size as in the old car , but the bodywork seems lighter and the shape is certainly smoother , so that probably accounts for the difference , ’ she says . |
| 16 | For Locke , it was argued , the absurdity would follow that while the general is the same person as the officer , and he the same as the boy , the general is not the same person as the boy . |
| 17 | Kit 's the same colouring as me . |
| 18 | The cake 's the same size |
| 19 | Erm sometimes er I have n't mentioned much about the gender of the therapist but sometimes it can help a great deal if the therapist 's the same gender as the same person who 's undergoing therapy and it also helps if it 's er sometimes you ca n't very easily with some therapists , y'know it sometimes erm helps if it 's somebody you can trust and confide in and stuff like that and obviously , having met various psychiatrists and clinical psychologists , er quite a number of them are not people I 'd particularly like to talk about about being abused as a child . |
| 20 | At £95 , the two hour long chance to tread surely the most glamorous footplate in preservation is the same price as the standard half-day long course based around the controls of Great Western Castle Class ‘ Defiant ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Realize the tennis court is the same size for everybody around the world . |
| 22 | In effect although although the water is the same product it 's there is a slight difference in the marketing of each one of them . |
| 23 | And water 's the same way |
| 24 | Yeah water 's the same way in n it ? |
| 25 | In two further cases the role intention plays is the same sort of interpretative role which it can so easily assume in legacies : to consider what meaning the testator attached to the words he used ; or what his intention was in imposing a modality on a disposition . |
| 26 | As figures be the instruments of ornament in euery language , so be they also in a sorte abuses or rather trespasses in speach , because they passe the ordinary limits of common vtterance , and be occupied of purpose to deceiue the eare and also the minde , drawing it from plainnesse and simplicitie to a certaine doublenesse whereby our talke is the more guilefull & abusing . |
| 27 | Part of understanding the sentence is to decide that the person questioned in the questioning event is the same person as the seer in the seeing event . |
| 28 | To one side of the square is the former railway station and the bridge over the gardens is a former railway bridge — Monte station was opened in 1894 , but the short-lived railway from Funchal closed in 1939 . |
| 29 | The Chairman of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs is the former Cabinet Minister the Right Honourable David Howell ( Member for Guildford ) . |
| 30 | And to think his wife is the same age as Una ! |