Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [be] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I 'm afraid of being the victim I 'll bubble my way up to being either the rescuer or the persecutor . |
| 2 | The award winner in the urban category was Bridgefoot Multi-Storey in Stratford-upon-Avon , which may turn out to be just the attraction the town needs to woo back Shakespeare-mad Americans jumpy about international travel in the wake of the Gulf War . |
| 3 | Advertising , however , turned out to be only the tip of the iceberg . |
| 4 | His paper of January 1856 turned out to be only the beginning of a long argument about the need to abolish serfdom in order to put the Russian army on a sounder footing . |
| 5 | New pop , far from being a bright new beginning , turned out to be merely the inauguration of global designer-soul , the soundtrack to the new yuppie culture of health and efficiency . |
| 6 | Readers of Malcolm Lowry 's Under the Volcano ( 1947 ) , for example , are introduced to a herd of buffaloes which quickly turn out to be merely the phantoms of a drink-sodden mind . |