Example sentences of "[is] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is during the latter part of this century , however , that historic barns and other traditional rural buildings have faced their greatest threat . |
| 2 | the steak out there is about the same price as mince here . |
| 3 | Niort is about the same distance by the parallel N150 . |
| 4 | The sandy beach is only 200 metres away to the left of the hotel and the main late nightlife is about the same distance to the right . |
| 5 | The water vole is about the same size as a brown rat , but with blunter features , smaller ears , a furry tail and a more gingery coat . |
| 6 | It is about the same size as Rye . |
| 7 | Traditionally , however , the fine-boned Gloucester , which is about the same size as the Dairy Shorthorn , is a milk animal happy not to try and compete in the beef market with the neighbouring Hereford , and it has become a handsome , elegant house-cow or single-suckler , or a useful milk producer for the small-scale farmhouse cheese-maker . |
| 8 | The new slimline Lynx 2 is about the same size as the Game Gear . |
| 9 | It is about the same size as its jungle relative , weighing up to 100 lb ( 45 kg ) and measuring , nose to tail , as much as 7 ½ ft ( 2.3 m ) . |
| 10 | You see , there 's Venus which is about the same size , Mercury 's a small one , Saturn is huge , Uranus , Neptune they 're big ones and Pluto 's another one about the same size as earth . |
| 11 | Advertisement er , revenue at Westminster Press ended the six months at about the , advert revenue about the same level as last year but it was below last year 's level early on , so in other words erm , advertisement volume is growing , because there 's next to no , there 's , the yield is about the same overall . |
| 12 | My interest in North Plains people in 1750 to 1850 which is about the same period for the you know cowboys goes back many years to my pre- writing days . |
| 13 | EMMA is about the same age , dressed in a longish navy skirt and low-heeled courts . |
| 14 | Unix , which is about the same age , just is n't as bullet-proof , it says . |
| 15 | So she is about the same age as her stepson . |
| 16 | This person is about the same age but earns a bit more and so on and so forth , so your age increases . |
| 17 | ‘ It is about the same risk as my drive from Oxford to London to take part in the jump . ’ |
| 18 | Right you then get your baby , you 'll see the midwives doing this , you stabilize the baby pelvis , because otherwise it will just sort of go all over the place wo n't it , and this doll is , is fairly fixed , it 's not a very soft thing like a baby and you , with your hand you put your finger which is about the same length as the baby 's finger is n't it ? |
| 19 | To make the buoyancy up to competition standards the foam is longer than used in similar models though overall the Aqua-Pak is about the same length . |
| 20 | ‘ I once heard her say ’ , Hortensia went on , ‘ that a large boy is about the same weight as an Olympic hammer and therefore he 's very useful for practising with . ’ |
| 21 | bigger that 's for the same reason , there you 've got an E , and so because you 've got the E we can double the G to make the I go on , go on say short for |
| 22 | right so it 's for the half year sorry , beg your pardon five million half year |
| 23 | An application is an application for a renewal where it relates to premises in respect of which the applicant has been granted a licence which is due to expire and is for the same type of licence as that previously granted . |
| 24 | The I think the erm the main point that I 'd like to make is that erm the structure as it 's posed erm is for the same number of staff erm , however , the three , what were supervisory stroke managerial posts erm have changed , we feel , as a result of the merger and therefore , and there are three er little posts mainly , a head of , people called a head of and a head of the support , support a support services manager and a support services officer and erm the appendix details the main er , functions in each post , er those posts . |
| 25 | Pleasant and nice songs I suppose I do n't know it 's just , quite like it , it 's now big , it 's about the most thing he 's ever recorded that I have liked , |
| 26 | At 13″ high , 13″ wide and 11″ deep , it 's about the same size as a Polytone Minibrute or a 40-watt Roland Cube , but do n't be fooled ; it weighs a healthy 29lbs and the power section pushes 120 watts into 8 ohms — in this case an eight-inch coaxial speaker with a separate tweeter . |
| 27 | That 's about the same size as earth you know . |
| 28 | And she 's about the same size round but about five foot two . . |
| 29 | It 's about the same price as a video . |
| 30 | ( That 's about the same percentage that vote Sinn Fein here in Ulster ) . |