Example sentences of "be [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as we believe to be the case , the unconscious activity of the mind consists in imposing forms upon content , and if these forms are fundamentally the same for all minds — ancient and modern , primitive and civilized |
| 2 | The amphibian 's eyes are fundamentally the same in structure as those of their fish ancestors . |
| 3 | Yet when all allowance is made for this bias in the evidence , one can not help being struck by the conspicuous part in our story which was played by the Empress Theophanu , the Empress Agnes , the Countess Matilda , St Margaret , the Empress Matilda , Queen Eleanor — great ladies who rose above the limitations of their sex , as commonly understood , as rulers , as saints or as viragos ; and the twelfth century would have been greatly the poorer without the life and work of the English Christina , the Hertfordshire anchoress , or of the French Heloise , the Stoic of the Paraclete , or of the German Hildegarde , the mystic of Bingen . |
| 4 | The instruction details will differ from model to model , but the basics are much the same for all . |
| 5 | But things are much the same in countries with strong constitutional traditions . |
| 6 | While the general principles of project management are much the same in the two cases , a number of important aspects that are implicit in the first case , in that they are built in as part of the company procedures , must be made explicit in the second . |
| 7 | The systemic complications are basically the same in males and females , the only difference being the female 's considerably greater chance of developing them . |
| 8 | My grandmother therefore moulded my life , and I believe I am all the better for it . |
| 9 | Spa towns , though , are all the better for looking somewhat passé and Eaux-Bonnes is more passé than most . |
| 10 | First , however , we examine passive resonators , which are perhaps the simplest of all optical systems , and indeed , in one limit , reduce to a one-dimensional noninvertible map , and thus possess a period-doubling route to chaos . |
| 11 | I will add simply that locked rooms are only the purest of all sorts of " impossible crimes ' . |
| 12 | There are only the smallest of delicately dropped clues as to how and why they ended up with the social skills of a herd of rhinos . |
| 13 | When Baudelaire wrote to Manet , ‘ you are only the first in the decrepitude of your art ’ , is he meant presumably to italicize the ‘ your ’ and thus confirm that he , Baudelaire , was the first in the ‘ decrepitude ’ of his own art . |
| 14 | The masks are only the latest in a number of measures in the effort to eliminate deaths by tiger attacks . |
| 15 | He could n't pretend there 'd been just the two of them . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Because it 's been exactly the same for me , ’ Julius said simply . |
| 17 | ‘ I am not the bravest of men , I 'll be honest I did not like Sir Ralph using me as a page boy but he distrusted the others . ’ |
| 18 | These objectives are largely the same for all Advanced level examinations . |
| 19 | ‘ BR fares are already the highest in Europe , but further increases of this scale will be inevitable without a change in Government policy , ’ he added . |
| 20 | However , other research shows that these methods are not the best for actually securing a job , especially for women ( Callender , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | But Herks are not the best for VIP passengers and a handful of Daks remained with the unit until 1969 when the VIP element became independent as 21 Squadron . |
| 22 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , the people who spend most on VAT are those who spend most on goods that attract VAT ; they are not the poorest in society . |
| 23 | The fair has itself moved to Spring Bank Holiday Monday , and though there are still large crowds , there are not the thousands for whom this was one of the highlights of the year . |
| 24 | Just as the severity of symptoms vary , the causes of Cystitis are not the same for every woman . |
| 25 | But reactions to parental death are not the same for everyone . |
| 26 | In real circumstances , the ‘ nation ’ summarizes very complicated social and economic interests and classes which are not the same at different times , nor in different places . |
| 27 | These last are not the same among all social groups in Britain , nor even from area to area . |
| 28 | It is true that the qualities of an object are only the various ways in which we or other minds are affected by it , and these affections are not the same in different objects , except in the sense in which the word same stands for exact similarity . |
| 29 | ‘ These affections are not the same in different objects , except in the sense in which the word same stands for exact similarity . ’ |
| 30 | Although studies of modern societies show that there are usually strong links between social organization and material objects , these links are not the same in every society . |