Example sentences of "[verb] be the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years . |
| 2 | A major feature in UK user education ( particularly in the last five years ) has been the many hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on research and development . |
| 3 | The result has been the same each time . |
| 4 | Also to be considered are the many strange accounts of werewolves , vampires , apart from ghosts and ghouls . |
| 5 | In the case of the 1971 Etna eruption , the magma involved was the same basaltic one throughout , yet its behaviour was quite different in its de-gassed condition in the second phase from its original state in the first , when the eruption was mildly explosive . |
| 6 | This is not simple mimicry , which would only entail being the same bright colour as a distasteful species . |
| 7 | They could have been the same young Russians we had met 4,000 miles away in Fairbanks only the day before . |
| 8 | " It would have been the same any time we came , " said Fiver . |
| 9 | Secondly , though the net price obtained by the owner of land should have been the same irrespective of whether the body to whom he sold it was private or public , some owners might have been unwilling to sell to the commission . |
| 10 | Dornford Lane is much more likely to have been the former main road into Woodstock from Banbury which developed after 1154–74 , when Woodstock was founded as a royal town by Henry II . |
| 11 | Later in the paper I 'll be explaining that , whilst there was also a recognition that there was a gradual build-up in the care requirements , there does n't seem to have been the same explicit recognition that there 's been a gradual build-up in the assessment and care management which has an increased ongoing cost in future years . |
| 12 | Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex . |
| 13 | But it 's been the same all season — we 've asked too much of too few . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |