Example sentences of "be [adv] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If initial position is reserved for theme and if topic always occurs in initial position , then theme and topic are presumably the same thing . |
| 2 | Bus and train are much the same price at the moment though it 's quicker to take the bus . |
| 3 | Especially since the ‘ efficiency savings ’ from 10 years of government cuts are much the same size . |
| 4 | In the nests of the few species that feed exclusively on carrion , the queen cells and food storage cells are much the same size . |
| 5 | Sara and Patsy are much the same age and are very fond of each other . |
| 6 | I hope I have made it clear now that although ( 1 ) to ( 5 ) are basically the same structure , each modification is itself a sufficient change to make it a different kind of game — and thus the experience is a different one according to which is chosen ( either by the teacher or the participants themselves ) . |
| 7 | But it would have been exactly the same problem simple harmonic motion |
| 8 | Tim Reagan , a gaunt forty-year-old , who was a genius with trade unions as well as being an accountant and Peter Yeo 's right hand , moved swiftly through the secretarial problem , which was one of shortage of same , and seemed , as Peter Yeo observed pleasantly , to have been exactly the same difficulty any time in the last two years , to a discussion of building security , in which no one was much interested either . |
| 9 | Joins on silver or gold objects made with silver and gold solders can not usually be distinguished by radiography because they are approximately the same density as the metals they join , although they can sometimes be identified by colour difference or porosity when seen at high magnification . |
| 10 | Usually , plaquettes are approximately the same area as thin sections : they may often be prepared as a first step in section-making . |
| 11 | They are exactly the same size as the others |
| 12 | As work progresses , make regular check for horizontal , and to ensure that both walls are exactly the same height |
| 13 | In fact very few people 's legs are exactly the same length . |
| 14 | When two solutions of different concentrations are separated by a membrane the tendency is for movement through the membrane to occur so that eventually both solutions are exactly the same strength on both sides of the membrane . |
| 15 | In fact , as I have developed this chapter , I realise that within the definition I am using they are exactly the same thing . |
| 16 | And they 're only the same shape . |
| 17 | Erm the maximum score of that expression is obtained when Z X equals Z Y. So , the maximum time is when the two paired standard scores are a exactly the same , not just they 're both positive or both negative , but they 're exactly the same value as well . |
| 18 | We 're exactly the same age , and have similar backgrounds , so we 're on common ground from the start . |
| 19 | Block pavers have the big advantage of being easy to handle ( they 're usually the same size as conventional bricks ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Lucky we 're nearly the same size . ’ |
| 21 | I was pretty certain of the approach I had to take and the fact that we 're virtually the same age was an advantage . |
| 22 | We 're almost the same age , I 'm just a few months older . |
| 23 | And now all of them have months which are always the same length of four weeks exactly four weeks so you 'd always know the first of the month would be a Sunday or whatever day you choose to start on and the seventh would always be a Sunday and the fourteenth would be a Sunday and so on . |
| 24 | There are 6–8 slightly rugose arm spines , the dorsalmost arm spines are the longest up to 2 arm segments long , the ventral most are usually the most rugose . |
| 25 | As you can see , he 's much greyer than she is , which is rare — both sexes of tawnies are usually the same colour . |
| 26 | Although some children may be capable of finding there are the same number of things in two sets ( by matching ) , they may not be at all sure there are still the same number of the objects if one of the sets is differently arranged . |
| 27 | ‘ I know people have a different attitude to things now than we had before the war , but you and Chris are still the same sort of people . |
| 28 | Imamu and Boo are not similar in the way that they are both the same age or the same colour , but what makes them similar and comparable is that they are both outsiders in society . |
| 29 | No , they are probably the same condition in different manifestations just as Chemical Dependency covers alcoholism and various forms of drug addiction all of which have similar mood-altering effects . |
| 30 | Be prepared for confusion , booksellers , since they are also the same colour . |