Example sentences of "be [pers pn] [adj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , indeed , are they still the same species ? |
| 2 | Teacher : Are they all the same ? |
| 3 | Are they all the same ? |
| 4 | Are they all the same or different ? |
| 5 | These look drier than the ones at the back , it must be the latest one , or are they all the same ? |
| 6 | And are they alright the next day ? |
| 7 | ‘ Were you aware the Senior Medical Officer had chosen to send us Mr Peters , temporarily ? ’ |
| 8 | Is she still the same girl ? |
| 9 | The children visit the church and learn to look at it and describe what they see , and this is in itself a valuable exercise ; but it becomes more valuable still if as well as noting that the fabric is stone , they are provoked to go on to enquire what type of stone , is it all the same stone , why were these types of stone Preferred , where do they come from , and how do they come to be what they are ? |
| 10 | Is it , is it all the same ? |
| 11 | But even if a blade close to the boat and a high elbow allows greater application of force , is it still the best technique ? |
| 12 | Nor is it just the Hegelian dialectic as such : Cixous includes ‘ History ’ , and by implication therefore Marxism as well . |
| 13 | Are we witnessing the next step in the greening of the market , or is it just the latest move in the marketing of the greens ? |
| 14 | Or is it just the same ? |
| 15 | Is it just the three of you living there ? |
| 16 | Nor is it just the exported population of thousands of American suburbanites , the wives and families with their attendant schools and hospitals and tennis courts . |
| 17 | But a tidy countryside , as neat and controlled as a suburban garden , is not a natural countryside , nor is it even the traditional farmed countryside . |
| 18 | And was he even the same guy as the one with markedly dodgy views about the international situation in the Far East ? |
| 19 | Was he just the slightest bit jealous ? |
| 20 | Was he alright the other day when you come round with the Lada and then he |
| 21 | Was it possible the old fox had sussed him out and not let it show ? |
| 22 | Was it just the rising wind that was chilling her , making her tremble ? |
| 23 | Nor was it just the humble and obscure whose exits went unnoticed . |
| 24 | It seems , moreover , that from the 1830s and 1840s there was a distinct switch in literary representation of the type of women who had recourse to abortion : no longer was it just the seduced domestic , but the married and unmarried working women , particularly factory women in the textile areas of Lancashire . |
| 25 | Nor was it just the invigorating properties of the sea air at Blackpool that stimulated the appetite for whipping . |