Example sentences of "are [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things will seem far worse than they actually are for a few days — but once the drama dies down you 'll see you 're in a fine position after all . |
| 2 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 3 | Both graphs are for the same individual ; eight birds all gave similar results . |
| 4 | No , whoops , I might have put one on top of the other when it should have been the other way round , so always have this check , er does the answer look , I mean , no , you ca n't always tell , but sometimes you can , sometimes you can think well those two are about the same price per gram , are n't they ? |
| 5 | We are about the same size , no ? |
| 6 | Nigel and I are about the same size , so no adjustments were needed , but the instant impression , on moving the black semi-circular yoke atop the long curving control column , was of absolute silky smoothness . |
| 7 | In his new job Mr Riddell will be chief executive of the UK and European operations , which are about the same size as the whole group was when he left . |
| 8 | Top footballers the world over are about the same standard but the hun-grier , more aggressive animal is the victor . |
| 9 | In T.buttikoferi the light and dark bands are about the same width , but in T.joka the dark ones are about 3–4 times as wide as the light . |
| 10 | You and Matthew are about the same age . |
| 11 | ‘ They are about the same age and build , a man and a woman , but beyond that — Some inflammable substance had been poured on them , almost certainly petrol . ’ |
| 12 | As we saw in World War II when SOE agents in France were deliberately sacrificed in order to plant deception schemes upon the Germans , ' ! espionage is a very brutal-game in which human lives are of no more significance than pieces on a chess board . |
| 13 | Liver sausage may be firm for slicing or smooth for spreading and most of the continental varieties are of the latter type . |
| 14 | Most actors in soap operas are of the latter school . |
| 15 | This is zero only if the distribution is monodisperse , that is , all molecules are of the same size , and we have which is . |
| 16 | A. Discus would normally begin to display courtship at the age of nine months , so it is possible that all your Discus are of the same sex . |
| 17 | If two Discus lash their back quarters against each other , then you can assume these are of the same sex . |
| 18 | Such a view ignores the tremendous structural inequalities within society ; it assumes that ethnicity , gender and class do not influence educational achievements and that all schools are of the same character . |
| 19 | The images of vision are of the same order as creative ideas , but the mind must be aimed at the horizon , and the thoughts must be concentrated in the emotion of creativity . |
| 20 | The idea of a view and the vision of Boullee are of the same order of thought and sight . |
| 21 | The differences between them are of the same order as the differences between modern Dutch and standard German : the Brut retains the OE case-inflexions and grammatical gender , whereas the Peterborough Chronicle , even though it is an earlier document , has lost most of these . |
| 22 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 23 | These concentrations are of the same order as those found in the plasma of patients taking 5-ASA preparations orally ( 10–15 µm ) and are far lower than those required to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase , lipoxygenase , or the binding of FMLP to neutrophils ( IC 5 10 , 6 , and >5 mM respectively ) or those found within the colonic lumen of these patients ( 10–20 mM ) . |
| 24 | When two descriptions are of the same type , plural reference is enhanced , regardless of syntactic condition , and regardless of whether the two descriptions are names or noun phrases . |
| 25 | But random fluctuations in the direction of conversion , or a bias in the direction of conversion , eventually ensures that all copies of a gene family in all individuals are of the same type . |
| 26 | All the attributes are of the same type . |
| 27 | Some of the project management variables are of the same type as the operations data , that is , numerical . |
| 28 | Only a few of the errors are of the same kind as spelling or typing errors . |
| 29 | Accordingly , futures contracts will not be investments of the same kind as debt securities or even contracts for differences , although SFA may perhaps agree that they are of the same kind as contracts for differences for this purpose ; in practice , however , any dealer who normally deals in futures contracts is usually likely to deal in contracts for differences in any event . |
| 30 | The same is true today , nowhere more starkly , for example , than on the border between Mexico and the United States ( where the inhabitants on both sides are of the same origin , culture and language ) . |