Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Along the northern bank of the firth lies the fertile Carse of Gowrie , the word carse meaning much the same as haugh — a stretch of alluvial levels beside a river . |
| 2 | This is very much the same as sample 3 , but the tucking needles are now tucking for two rows before knitting two rows . |
| 3 | Sex : Much the same as career , only considerably more enjoyable . |
| 4 | With quite minor additions and subtractions the actual wood substance has in all cases about the same chemical constitution and about the same density of ninety pounds per cubic foot ( that is , much the same as sugar — say 1.5 ) . |
| 5 | When I did start in ‘ 73 it was very much the same as trade effluent but the sewers were open , if you like . |
| 6 | The temperature of his skin was so much the same as mine I hardly knew we touched , yet I remained very still , my hands laid on his shoulders with the exaggerated formality of one learning to dance . |
| 7 | When I told her what was troubling me she just gave me a piece of clean rag and said more or less the same as Mum had . |
| 8 | Because it 's er you know more or less the same as estate agents in terms of look alike . |
| 9 | The problem always is to identify myths that support a mature life from those which distort the quality of living and mobilise only the less than adult , managerial capacities and capabilities of individuals in their work roles . |
| 10 | Success for capital is not necessarily the same as success for labour or for a local economy . |
| 11 | These tales are obviously no more than legend , but they contain within them some interesting elements . |
| 12 | It 's almost exactly the same … we get everything we need for the notes written on the board so we can just copy it down … so it 's just the same as school , except the homework — when you do those problem sheets , they do n't bother to mark it . |
| 13 | But take waterproofs just the same as rainfall is usually high — up to 60 inches a year in the Presely Hills . |
| 14 | A good proportion of Rousettus 's clicks are clearly audible to us ( which by definition makes them sound rather than ultrasound : ultrasound is just the same as sound except that it is too high for humans to hear ) . |
| 15 | So you should know how to spell carriage another time , it 's exactly the same as marriage |
| 16 | In all honesty I think they are exactly the same as newpaper reports in that if a team wins 3–0 or 4–0 they automatically say it was a trouncing , and then dredge up ‘ facts ’ to evidence their overall assumption . |
| 17 | Exactly the same as copy , but there 's one difference . |
| 18 | Curiously , weight for weight , the Young 's modulus of timbers is almost exactly the same as steel and aluminium and much better than synthetic resins . |
| 19 | Sow the seed in early to mid-spring , or late summer , preferably the latter as viability falls rapidly , outdoors where they are to grow — chervil does not do well if transplanted . |
| 20 | Input is not always the same as output . |
| 21 | It was always the same when trade was booming at the local wharves , and as the convoys of horsecarts and lorries lined up along Cotton Lane so the cafe became even fuller . |
| 22 | Margi 's stage persona is still a larger than life version of the Kirkby girl and strikes obvious chords with some of her audience . |
| 23 | He accepts he 's now more a mess-clearer than Messiah , saying : ‘ Clubs only call me in when they 're in a desperate situation . ’ |
| 24 | Professor John Boardman , for instance , Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at Oxford University , recently shocked an audience of classicists by claiming that : ‘ The exploits of Theseus , the ancient Greek hero who tamed the Minotaur and repulsed the Amazon invasion of Attica , were probably no more than state propaganda invented to rouse nationalistic pride ’ and were ‘ manufactured to glorify the role of Athens in the Ionian revolt of 499 BC ’ ( Times Higher Educational Supplement 7.8.81 ) . |
| 25 | Sadly , this pagan custom , called ‘ Salut au Soleil du 1er Mars ’ , is now no more than legend . |
| 26 | The Bren LMGs Mk I for the 8th Army were now no more than soap , toothpaste or toilet rolls , but the progression was just the same . |
| 27 | Some say he is now no more than mayor of Mogadishu , retaining only the loyalty of his own Marehan clan and other Darode tribes . |
| 28 | Conditions at sea were well known to be squalid and comfortless , wages beggarly , food too often no more than salt beef and weevilly biscuit , while officers were often no more than petty tyrants . |
| 29 | Their calcium carbonate skeletons are composed of the mineral aragonite , chemically the same as calcite , but with the atoms arranged in a different way . |
| 30 | Jurassic reef coral , Stylina alveolata This massive coral is now composed of calcite It has been recrystallized , because in life it was composed of the mineral aragonite — chemically the same as calcite , but with a different crystal structure . |