Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [be] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | excellent , scale and ability what we need to agree on is the skills and abilities that we want in there . |
| 2 | A rung down are the expatriates hired by Japanese companies , who inhabit an eerie social no-man's-land . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Altho the players marks were as expected … you cant take anything from these normally as I reckon they do them from match reports rather than from going to matches … the one thing they CANT lie about is the shots/corners scores … and here goes … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | in the audience , be careful cos you 're going do n't be under any illusion when your region , your job , or your elected position is under threat , it 's human nature to protect your back and when this happens , it 's the members who end up being the casualties . |
| 7 | Less remarked on are the inadequacies and crudity of language when faced with objects in everyday interaction . |
| 8 | As in the Recruit scandal , the only party to be left out were the Communists , and the lion 's share of the money went to the the ruling Liberal Democrat Party . |
| 9 | What still have to be worked out are the criteria which would justify not intervening aggressively , or , to put it another way , would amount to a quality of life which was not worth having . |