Example sentences of "are [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Usually , plaquettes are approximately the same area as thin sections : they may often be prepared as a first step in section-making . |
| 9 | They are exactly the same size as the others |
| 10 | As work progresses , make regular check for horizontal , and to ensure that both walls are exactly the same height |
| 11 | In fact very few people 's legs are exactly the same length . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In fact , as I have developed this chapter , I realise that within the definition I am using they are exactly the same thing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As you can see , he 's much greyer than she is , which is rare — both sexes of tawnies are usually the same colour . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Be prepared for confusion , booksellers , since they are also the same colour . |
| 22 | They are often the same person or principal it could be either in divisional quality manager or procedure |
| 23 | Not only does seeing a chair as a three-dimensional object have this character , but so does seeing one line as longer in the Mulier-Lyer illusion ( in which two lines of equal length look unequal when differently slanting lines are drawn at the tips ) despite our knowing that the two lines are really the same length . |
| 24 | Frankfurters are the most widely known of all the scalded sausages , and many other varieties such as Bockwurst , Knackwurst and Weinerwurst are really the same thing but in different sizes . |
| 25 | Some three hundred kilometres in a north-westerly direction , the Faroe Islands are roughly the same distance from Shetland as are Aberdeen to the south and Bergen in Norway to the east . |
| 26 | The other rivers from the Pennines are roughly the same size . |
| 27 | We have a very similar Northern background , are roughly the same age and have the same sense of humour . |
| 28 | However , if good and this property are simply the same thing , then the judgement that what has this property is good is just a tautology , and can not serve as the kind of important value judgement it is meant to be . |
| 29 | Now you 'll see that there are almost the same number of slots in in each . |
| 30 | The leaf-stalks are almost the same length as the leaf-blades . |