Example sentences of "[is] [art] [det] [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 mean that 's the same as a colour photograph . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That 's the same as a full jumbo jet crashing at Heathrow every day of the week and two on Sunday . |
| 16 | THE gleam in President Gorbachev 's eye is no less than a new Marshall Plan to reorganise the Soviet Union 's economy , financed by the world 's seven leading industrial countries , the G7 . |
| 17 | ‘ To experience two within the same day is no less than a catastrophe . |
| 18 | Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage . |
| 19 | A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along . |
| 20 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 21 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 22 | ‘ Labour 's supposed conversion to multilateralism is no more than a confidence trick to try to make Labour electable . |
| 23 | Until then the Polo is no more than a worthy evolution of a familiar species and merely addresses the most urgent problems that nearly 10 years of standing still have created . |
| 24 | In 1987 , soul is no more than a packed vehicle beating a hasty retreat from what are perceived as the excesses of white modernism . |
| 25 | The theory ( and it is no more than a theory ) goes something like this . |
| 26 | The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition with rather a lot of photographs of by now familiar faces from November 1989 . |
| 27 | However gifted , a theatre director is no more than a metteur en scène . |
| 28 | Vienna Dear Fräulein , I hope and believe the sad condition you describe is no more than a temporary fantasy . |
| 29 | It is no more than a consistent point of view , which has the advantage that , if we accept it , we can stop arguing about whether feelings are causes of actions , and can get on with finding out how our brains work , without fearing that an answer to the question would make free will an illusion . |
| 30 | But such ‘ telling-all ’ is no more than a form of exhibitionism . |