Example sentences of "[is] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , I do not accept the principle that the meaning of utterances is the same as a person 's ( alleged ) reasons for saying what he says . |
| 2 | The price surprised him : you get a lot of car for just over £20,000 , if only in terms of its length , which is the same as a Mercedes 260E and a couple of inches more than the 5-series BMWs . |
| 3 | any name which is the same as a name appearing in the index of names kept by the Registrar of Companies ( s. 714 ) ; |
| 4 | The effect of such an order under the Act is the same as a discharge in bankruptcy . |
| 5 | Three so she 'd say , Oh you know mind I 've cut it up a bit do you you should n't it 's still a quarter still a quarter you have n't lost a bit of it but it 's still a quarter three twelfths is the same as a quarter . |
| 6 | And three twelfths is the same as a quarter is n't it . |
| 7 | Okay have you done things like erm three twelfths is the same as a quarter ? have you done that at school ? |
| 8 | If e is the same as a , and the length is at least 1 , then it is a cycle . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman says that a training levy is the same as a selective employment tax . |
| 10 | For example , a rise in temperature of 10°C is the same as a rise in temperature of 10 K. |
| 11 | For the purpose of the law of libel a hearsay statement is the same as a direct statement , and that is all there is to it . " |
| 12 | So twenty five per cent is the same as a quarter |
| 13 | I thought , ‘ It 's the Nineties and a lot of people just do n't know what 's going on . ’ |
| 14 | I mean that 's the same as a colour photograph . |
| 15 | What do we do , you must take away everything that 's in the brackets , so we take away a twenty , so that 's the same as a minus twenty and then we 'll take away a minus one , signs are the same so it 's add one . |
| 16 | That 's the same as a full jumbo jet crashing at Heathrow every day of the week and two on Sunday . |
| 17 | Have we got that here yes here 's a five and a three so we could make forty five . |
| 18 | You draw a line and you know at once whether it 's a good or a bad line . |
| 19 | Do you have any thoughts as to whether it 's a good or a bad thing that food is produced artificially , as it were ? |
| 20 | It 's a two and a half second sequence — I 've timed it . |
| 21 | Do I just switch off the tape recorder and go back and say , ‘ Here 's a two and a half minute speech ’ ? |
| 22 | If it 's a million , if it 's a million and a half dollars it 's er three quarters of a million pounds |
| 23 | I do n't know if it 's a sweet or a Dan say Arthur . |
| 24 | Judit 's cassette-filled bedroom is no bigger than a standard bathroom . |
| 25 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |
| 26 | The digital AC motor speed controller is no bigger than a filofax . |
| 27 | A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself . |
| 28 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 29 | This has the worst reputation of any ‘ creepy-crawly ’ in the public imagination , and yet its bite , which is extremely rare , is no worse than a bee sting . |
| 30 | It is Easter weekend in Paris and , while his wife is away , middle-aged Jacques ( Stephen Moore ) brings home Julie , a sexy little bimbo played by Leslie Ash in a mini-skirt that is no broader than a cummerbund . |