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 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Realize the tennis court is the same size for everybody around the world . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Chairman of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs is the former Cabinet Minister the Right Honourable David Howell ( Member for Guildford ) . |
| 25 | And to think his wife is the same age as Una ! |
| 26 | Children often match the colours of their equipment , but sometimes the smallest spade is the same colour as the largest bucket and further conversation can be encouraged as they discover it is not always easier to fill a small bucket with a large spade , than to fill a large bucket with a small spade . |
| 27 | So for the 580 and the EC1 pattern controller , with the left hand light on the pattern is the same way round ( when viewed from the purl side of the knitting ) as on the mylar sheet . |
| 28 | Here , we 're talking to potential partners to run a 24 Hour News Service on satellite — but the key part of our strategy is the All News Network on radio . |
| 29 | For very distant objects these stars themselves are too faint to be visible , but if you look at clusters of galaxies , we find that the very brightest galaxy in a cluster is the same brightness in all clusters and so the fainter it looks to us the further away the cluster of galaxies must be . |
| 30 | If there is no alternative to using a foster mother whose natural litter is the same colour as the mice to be fostered great care must be taken to mark the fostered animals by toe clipping or all the natural young must be removed . |