Example sentences of "is [prep] [art] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of voters identifying with the Conservative party is about the same as in 1964 ( although Labour 's fall has been steep ) and the party 's share of the vote in 1983 and 1987 was actually slightly less than in 1979 . |
| 2 | It is about the same as we can anticipate in the next century , on the basis of currently predicted rates of greenhouse warming , according to scientists like Tom Wigley , Director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia . |
| 3 | This is despite the fact that its acreage of farmland is about the same as that of the United States , a nation that has become the world 's greatest grain exporter . |
| 4 | And as for the future , the economist 's forecast is about the same as the weatherman 's : cloudy at best , more likely bleak . |
| 5 | The next step , then , is to ask a good friend ( preferably one whose height is about the same as yours and whose appearance you admire ) to take his or her own measurements . |
| 6 | They verified both predictions , and calculated the effective mass of a moving soliton. it is about the same as an electron 's mass . |
| 7 | The standard size of a bath is 1700 x 700mm , which is about the same as the old 5ft 7in x 2ft 4in bath , which you might be replacing . |
| 8 | Very , very roughly , however , the cost of ‘ industrial ’ timber is about the same as that of commercial mild steel per lb . |
| 9 | Tear resistance is about the same as texturised nylon but abrasion resistance is less . |
| 10 | If the mass is about the same as that of the Sun , the core will shrink when the hydrogen runs low , while the outer layers will expand and cool . |
| 11 | Stroke risk decreases significantly in two years and is about the same as for nonsmokers after five years [ 8 ] . |
| 12 | The abortion ratio for teenagers in England and Wales of about 500 per 1,000 live births is about the same as that of other industrial countries except for Japan , Denmark , and Sweden where the ratio is about 1,500 per 1,000 live births ( Clearie et al . |
| 13 | It was er The village centre is about the same as it was when I was a boy , more busier of course , all the private houses that were on the front , you know , Street ? |
| 14 | For example , the number of unconnected words we can hold in immediate memory is about the same as the number of unrelated digits , even though a word contains much more information than a digit . |
| 15 | In reality , a business — like everything else — is worth no more than the best offer you can obtain at the time of a sale . |
| 16 | Clearly , one aim is to ensure the election of a Parliament the House of Commons of which is of an efficient size , and the Members of which are elected in such a way that the vote of one elector is worth the same as another , neither more nor less . |
| 17 | It is of a more than usually splendid birthday party , of jolly music , beer and sausages , goose-stepping , displays of rocket transporters and President Gorbachev saying ( without mentioning his loaded off-the-cuff remarks , or those by his spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov ) all the right things about West German revanchism . |
| 18 | Thus it is in the former that the manufacturer has the greater strategic motive for vertical separation , setting wholesale prices and charging franchise fees . |
| 19 | This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated . |
| 20 | Generally the extra cost for this type is around the same as for adding your own jacket — but the insulation wo n't fall off . |