Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through . |
| 2 | er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area . |
| 3 | Which I think is the same . |
| 4 | ‘ Where I work 's the same , just about . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Each random spot she tried was the same . |
| 7 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 8 | Furthermore , Ford 's new Price Protection plan means that the price you pay is the same as the price on your order , as long as you are prepared to accept delivery within three months and , in any event , as soon as your car is available . |
| 9 | And the heron you see is the same colour to me as the grass . |
| 10 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |
| 11 | I think really what happens when you go into the past is not so much that the laws that we now use change , but we just find that there are many more new rules and particles and things that can happen , so the things that we know are the same , but there are many , many more different types of interaction and particle in nature which we have no experience of , which we have to take into account . |
| 12 | Not necessarily , because in our experiments we experimenters , devise ; however , we have no way of telling whether the scales we use are the same as those the animals themselves use in making their memories . |
| 13 | In our judgment the plaintiffs are entitled , if so advised , to object to the remuneration on the ground that it is , to use the judge 's words , ‘ plainly excessive ’ or , as we think is the same criterion , unreasonably high . |
| 14 | we 've been the same before when we started . |
| 15 | If there 'd been the least sign of magical activity we 'd know about it . ’ |
| 16 | If Tommy Carr played for say Carlow , or perhaps Sligo or maybe Fermanagh , would there have been the same fuss ? |
| 17 | And every single thing they found was the same . |
| 18 | Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well . |
| 19 | They had three hundred and seventy three live children between them and on average they should of had twenty seven children with birth defects if they 'd been the same as the rest of the population , the non-criminal , non-prison erm erm erm non-prison population . |
| 20 | Their understanding of how they happen is the same as ours . |
| 21 | Many of the predators mentioned in the previous section function equally well as scavengers ( Hewson , 1981 ) , and the modifications they produce are the same as if they had been the primary predators . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is certainly fortunate for us that the numbers are unequal because , if they had been the same , nearly all the quarks and antiquarks would have annihilated each other in the early universe and left a universe filled with radiation but hardly any matter . |
| 24 | It shows that it is no use simply announcing that you can conceive of another 's pain on the grounds that you can suppose that what he has is the same as what you have . |
| 25 | ‘ Pray tell Dr Heatherton that I called , ’ he said , but all the reply he received was the same cold , formal bow the daughter had made . |
| 26 | Would it have been the same if it had been collected by anyone else ? |
| 27 | It had been the same sum for years . |
| 28 | It had been the same after their school days . |
| 29 | It had been the same over the Christmas decorations . |
| 30 | It had been the same for him and Nellie when James , their eldest son , was killed in France . |