Example sentences of "[adv prt] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of performance , the main facets to concentrate on are the feel and the overall sense of dynamics . |
| 2 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
| 3 | But however that may be , we take it as axiomatic that unless it can be established to the contrary , the best authorities as to what went on are the actors themselves . |
| 4 | Less remarked on are the inadequacies and crudity of language when faced with objects in everyday interaction . |
| 5 | A rung down are the expatriates hired by Japanese companies , who inhabit an eerie social no-man's-land . |
| 6 | The concrete meaning of the word in ordinary language is in fact ‘ breath ’ , and the alternations of breathing out and in are the paradigms for the ch'i in its active phase moving , expanding , rarefying as the ‘ Yang ’ , and in its passive phase reverting to stillness , contracting , solidifying , as the ‘ Yin ’ . |
| 7 | Already penned in are the Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 's print manager and NetLabs Inc 's NetLabs/Manager . |
| 8 | Next along are The Napes ; the breeding ground of many young tyros ( easily recognised by the rising pitch of their calls ) . |
| 9 | The children who were pushed in were the ones useless to their families , the backward and the troublesome , just the poor little wretches to provoke barbaric jokes and kicks and blows . |
| 10 | The hotel to stay in is the Victoria , a handsome pile run by the genial Platzer family ; they send a minibus to fetch you from the little airport at Berne — one hour 's drive away — and Herr Platzer then shows you where to hire ski equipment ( roughly £24 a week ) and organise lessons . |
| 11 | Perhaps the world we are in is the world of vision , the world of stairways to heaven , and companies of God 's army . |
| 12 | The only real thing that seems to be changing in is the compound in position of the oxy |
| 13 | Where it falls down is the support for only 256 real colours in this version , albeit at a resolution of 1024x768 and dithered to over 16 million with the Tseng Labs ET4000 video driver loaded . |
| 14 | Because it will be er it will be cut down is the word into finished products and raw stock . |
| 15 | Further down is the factory formerly occupied by Bassett Lowke , the world famous model-making firm . |
| 16 | It is on the way to being as reasonable as refusing to say about the see-saw that one end 's going down is the effect of the other end 's going up . |
| 17 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 18 | The other key characteristic of the even-toed ungulates that would have helped this process along is the structure of the feet . |
| 19 | Further along is the Lion and Peasant . |
| 20 | But as , as I say it was a job at that time and and in fact I 'd never , this was the only factory I had n't fancied , working in was the B M K , and yet I like it the best . |
| 21 | All he could take in was the muzzle of the gun the silent terror of the girl next to him and the Woman 's stony face . |
| 22 | Last in was the train passenger , who took 52 mins ( average speed , 7.5 mph ) ; this , despite the fact that a train was scheduled at exactly the right time for the contestant to catch by cycling the 0.7 miles from the start to the station . |
| 23 | Colin checked round the room , the only appliance plugged in was the fire . |
| 24 | And er after er my grandfather made that bike , after he started business on his own , he had , well the next thing came in was the penny farthing bicycle . |
| 25 | The third factor which argues against a low rate of inflation coming through is the extent of the devaluation that has taken place so far . |
| 26 | The second card you turn over is the matching six and you have two pairs . |
| 27 | What is usually glossed over is the fact that , in the process , democracy came to be " liberalised " in that its radical and egalitarian ideals were softened so that , in practice , democratic politics worked within the prevailing system of power in economy and society . |
| 28 | The object he had tripped over was the pistol ; it was so heavy that it was all he could do to raise it . |
| 29 | And lay off were the tunnel was going to go and the road up to the hill and lay off the power station and |
| 30 | And Pam said that Steve said to her that when he was at West Ham grammar school , boys grammar school everybody knew that the people who were best off were the council house people . |