Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children had the unfortunate habit of growing too tall , whereupon they would be sacked so the few shillings earned were lost to a family that might well depend on them . |
| 2 | In any case , the ideology of the RCC was that women should not be treated exactly the same as men : women are human beings , and therefore equal to men , but they are also more delicate , more beautiful and gentler — they are like flowers , and should not be compelled to be manlike and false to their nature . |
| 3 | ( b ) It should be treated exactly the same as any of your other three shifts . |
| 4 | I had imagined , for instance , that I would be able to catch a glimpse of Mount Silisili , a mile-high peak in the centre of Samoa , just a few miles away across the water : I had hoped to do so for no better reason than that Mount Silisili would be enjoying precisely the same clock time as here in Tonga , but exactly one day before . |
| 5 | The live set would feature the TARDIS , so by careful aligning of two camera positions and angles the two pictures on the output monitor could be made exactly the same , with only the TARDIS prop showing which one was which . |
| 6 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 7 | After the show , Michael Codron ordered the number to be performed exactly the same way for every performance thereafter . |
| 8 | it does n't matter what building society you go to , you 're gon na be paying basically the same rate . |
| 9 | If the taxpayer is providing the infrastructure for roads , which includes the track , maintainance and regulation ( = signalling ) , then it seems only reasonable that we should be providing exactly the same for rail — and allowing operators to run trains just as coach operators run buses . |
| 10 | I had a phone call from somebody who was obviously be doing exactly the same thing , and he actually just was booking an appointment to come in and see me . |
| 11 | If Bishop Auckland was where Darlington is I would be doing exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 12 | Meanwhile , in a studio in north London , Geoffrey Winston of Thumb Design Partnership , seems to be doing much the same . |
| 13 | But when he looked over his shoulder , expecting Eve to be doing much the same , she was heading in quite a different direction . |
| 14 | But then again Luton will be saying exactly the same thing . |
| 15 | Viola would have to give up her career , of course — otherwise she would be coming home the same time as Gina , which would not do at all . |
| 16 | erm It 's eighty minutes , it 's that eighty minutes is a very hard game obviously erm and they will be thinking exactly the same . |
| 17 | There 's a proof because so if two people were contemplating the proof of the infinity of primes they would n't be going about it in different ways , erm , if they 're contemplating the proof , they 'd be contemplating exactly the same steps in the same order . |