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Example sentences of "be the [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	SIR — I am the same age as the funniest sports writer around , Michael Parkinson .
2	I realize there are some women , and I know one or two in Baldersdale , who can not resist babies and go all to pieces whenever they meet one , whereas I am the same with dogs .
3	I am the same .
4	I am the same woman you fell in love with then , the very same .
5	I am the same woman you fell in love with then , the very same .
6	And erm well I am the same status and I am his colleague and all this you know I can help you .
7	Tonight , I am the more … engaged . ’
8	He is the New People and I am the Few .
9	I think this had been the former jockey 's house , for the Kirkwoods of Woodbrook survived into the middle of the twentieth century by breeding racehorses .
10	Dornford Lane is much more likely to have been the former main road into Woodstock from Banbury which developed after 1154–74 , when Woodstock was founded as a royal town by Henry II .
11	In the case of Byrd it has almost always been the latter ; and this is one reason why the performance practice of Byrd 's music is sorely in need of revolution .
12	Baltic nationalism , which had been the least of the Tsar 's political worries and barely existed in 1917 , was nurtured by setting up independent little states as part of the quarantine belt against the Bolshevist infection .
13	If there 'd been the least sign of magical activity we 'd know about it . ’
14	When she 'd first moved in she had n't cared about anything , certainly not her surroundings — they had been the least of her problems — and if the villagers had n't so kindly donated her furnishings she 'd probably still be existing in empty rooms .
15	It may also not have been the least of Ælfheah 's attractions to the people of London , heavily taxed in 1018 , that he was murdered for being unable or unwilling to give money to the Danes ; nor need it have made Cnut 's position any easier that King Æthelred , too , lay buried in St Paul 's .
16	A major feature in UK user education ( particularly in the last five years ) has been the many hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on research and development .
17	Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex .
18	I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them .
19	My feet have never been the same since , he said .
20	Life would not have been the same without them , nor would it be now , considering the lasting impression they made in our minds .
21	I wonder whether the umpire 's attitude would have been the same if the offender had been his opponent , the comparatively unknown Grant Connell .
22	There was nothing to suggest that had the evidence been excluded that result would necessarily have been the same .
23	The result has been the same each time .
24	Its always been the same ’ ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 16 ) .
25	There are many projects where farmers have seen potential benefits from a project , but where these have not been the same as those anticipated by the project designers .
26	Spurs have never been the same in cup competition since Port Vale knocked them out of the FA Cup .
27	Rovers have never been the same since they knocked Newcastle and Wimbledon out of the Centenary Trophy .
28	If the English handicapper appears to have been lenient with Barnbrook Again , the Irish handicapper has been the same with Morley Street .
29	They must have been the same year , for their birthdays were only two months apart .
30	Ann , in 1913 , would have been the same age as Edward 's mother and , from family hearsay , Ann 's sentiments resemble closely the practical , optimistic piety of Mary Elizabeth Thomas .