Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] [det] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The Purchaser will not be happy if the Business consists of all the wrong kinds of assets ( peas instead of beans ) even if they are worth the same as the price paid .
2 Living costs are about the same as Britain .
3 In other words , instead of almost doubling year by year , last we are about the same , we have n't got all the confirmations , we 're about the same as we were the year before , give or take a few , about say five percent .
4 If it is not , and the garage or other body running the extended warranty scheme goes out of business , the warranty will be worth no more than the paper it is written on .
5 a person of one sex is treated less favourably , on the ground of sex , than a person of the other sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances .
6 Direct discrimination against a married person occurs where a married person is treated less favourably on the grounds of marital status , than an unmarried person of the same sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances .
7 Blowflies , psillid bugs and bumblebees are among the few that winter as adults , seeking sheltered corners under rocks and vegetation , close to the soil and under an insulating layer of snow .
8 It does n't have to be from the same range , but the pieces should have something in common — such as being in the same or similar wood or style , having the same upholstery fabric or the same colour .
9 Its wharves were among the few where steam vessels outnumbered sailing ships at that time .
10 Often they are at the same or higher levels .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 And as for the future , the economist 's forecast is about the same as the weatherman 's : cloudy at best , more likely bleak .
15 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 .
16 They verified both predictions , and calculated the effective mass of a moving soliton. it is about the same as an electron 's mass .
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 Very , very roughly , however , the cost of ‘ industrial ’ timber is about the same as that of commercial mild steel per lb .
19 Tear resistance is about the same as texturised nylon but abrasion resistance is less .
20 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 .
21 Stroke risk decreases significantly in two years and is about the same as for nonsmokers after five years [ 8 ] .
22 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 .
23 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 ?
24 For example , the number of unconnected words we can hold in immediate memory is about the same as the number of unrelated digits , even though a word contains much more information than a digit .
25 In reality , a business — like everything else — is worth no more than the best offer you can obtain at the time of a sale .
26 Clearly , one aim is to ensure the election of a Parliament the House of Commons of which is of an efficient size , and the Members of which are elected in such a way that the vote of one elector is worth the same as another , neither more nor less .
27 Yeah but like I 've still got more than well it 's about the same cos you 've got less at the top I think .
28 Erm , the other thing I 'd like to draw your attention to is para six point one , just a little tabulation there , because what they 're saying is that on the number of cuts per specification , that 's what exists now , er three hundred and twenty eight thousand , that 's about the same as this year , er if you go to the hundred millimetre cut , which is what we 're suggesting we do on a trial basis , the cost to the County Council will amount to another hundred and fifty thousand pounds a year .
29 It is of a more than usually splendid birthday party , of jolly music , beer and sausages , goose-stepping , displays of rocket transporters and President Gorbachev saying ( without mentioning his loaded off-the-cuff remarks , or those by his spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov ) all the right things about West German revanchism .
30 Thus it is in the former that the manufacturer has the greater strategic motive for vertical separation , setting wholesale prices and charging franchise fees .
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