Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] be the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the scabs er that well they put us down to start with , and then the was picket line started cracking up was the these lads not prepared to do it . |
| 2 | The wind that blew tin cans along the streets of the dormitory suburb where I was growing up was the same wind that howled round peak and scar and wrested piccolo tunes from the reed patches below the drystone walls . |
| 3 | The mean scores at baseline for the subgroup of students who were followed up were the same as for those not followed up . |
| 4 | This is adequate for left shift , at least as long as the bits shifted out are the same as the sign bit . |
| 5 | For us the important point is that the timescale on which continents have drifted about is the same slow timescale on which animal lineages have evolved , and we can not ignore continental drift if we are to understand the patterns of animal evolution on those continents . |