Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It so happened that two different remedies were sought in this case , but the decision on the issue of standing would have been the same even if the applicant had sought two declarations in different terms . |
| 2 | Yep , complete load of crap … out of order they even say it … its been the same ever since the premier card was first introduced . |
| 3 | and they also reckon that the Gosport and Portsmouth are the worst off than anywhere else in this country |
| 4 | and then pensions are the same again except the guy 's a carpenter , a self-employed carpenter , and then finally erm there 's only one of you doing er so you Robert going for the savings , you 're doing savings are n't you ? |
| 5 | Although the telephone has become commonplace in most of our homes , and is essential to business , its principles are the same today as they were when Alexander Graham Bell invented it in 1876 . |
| 6 | The first and last points are the same so as to close the zone boundary . |
| 7 | They 're the same now as they were in the fifties when making presentations and that 's about the skills you need when you stand up to speak and the skills you need in the preparation phase so the two towers of presentation skills are about the preparation and the presentation itself . |
| 8 | I should add that the outcome would have been no different even if the Act of 1985 had applied since Mr. Thomas concedes the time when the cause of action arises must be the same under both Acts . |
| 9 | There has , in other words , been a quantitative rather than a qualitative change in his work . |
| 10 | Yet I have lived many thousands of years , and am no older now than the day my lord left me . |
| 11 | Consequently share option schemes are a thousand better than profit-sharing schemes . |
| 12 | Equally , breeders are passing over animals which they now feel are no better genetically than the dairy replacements they have at home . |
| 13 | Chelsea are an efficient rather than exciting team . |
| 14 | The 1955 Le Mans was to be the fastest ever and the two Mercedes of Stirling Moss ( GB ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) were expected to dominate the race . |
| 15 | This was not one of life 's big surprises and actually it set one to wondering if he might be the first ever since the whole shameless , glittering , addictive business began back in 1927 . |
| 16 | Because of this , they are difficult to flush out of the aquifer under standard conditions , and in situ biodegradation may be the only technically and economically feasible way to achieve remediation . |
| 17 | All fairly straightforward though the coded letter we recovered from his baggage took a long time to crack , while his shaving kit will never be the same again after each piece was stripped to its component parts by one participant . |
| 18 | If you say , ‘ I keep thinking you might take some LSD and have a bad trip and get scrambled-egg brains and never be the same again and I really love you the way you are , ’ that 's fine because you 've confined yourself to what you know and what you feel . |
| 19 | He would n't leave me , but things would never be the same again if he found out . |
| 20 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 21 | One of these predictions was that the number of galaxies or similar objects in any given volume of space should be the same wherever and whenever we look in the universe . |
| 22 | Well there 's you right angle that 's still the hypotenuse which one would be the opposite now if we 're dealing with with this angle ? |
| 23 | Similarly a French pamphleteer in the middle of the century argued that ‘ the power which is strongest at sea must necessarily be the strongest commercially and thus the most formidable … dominance of the sea would give a nation universal monarchy ’ . |
| 24 | lt is not surprising therefore that the strategy for information systems development which follows the existing departmental structure of the firm may be the easiest politically but not the one that gains the most from the database and informations systems project . |
| 25 | Now independent taxation , as you may know , came in , we 're now in ninety three four , I 've only just altered the heading because very little else has changed and I 'm a lazy so and so I ca n't rewrite it just for the heading . |
| 26 | As Kempton said ‘ It 's possible there would be no National now but for Foinavon winning . |
| 27 | There need be no driving away but some movement is needed : Bogacki [ 1973 ] QB 832 ( CA ) . |
| 28 | The probability of any particular letter being miscopied on any one copying occasion turns out to be a little more than one in a billion . |
| 29 | Measures adopted included the creation of the post of Prime Minister ; in addition the political bureau was now to consist of 400 members and would be a deliberative rather than an executive body ; the executive role would be assumed by an 80-member central committee ; and the party would henceforth have an elected secretary-general . |
| 30 | Finally , we know that ( A believes that ) B has been to A's present location before because of the word again : this can be claimed to be a pragmatic rather than a semantic implication just because , unlike semantic implications , those associated with again are not normally negated by the negation of the main verb . |