Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rung down are the expatriates hired by Japanese companies , who inhabit an eerie social no-man's-land . |
| 2 | The signal that is picked up is the difference in potential between the two electrode positions . |
| 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 | All that can be made out is the letter ‘ S ’ , then possible an ‘ E ’ followed by another letter . |
| 5 | One thing that must be pointed out is the fact that these remarks , however romantic-sounding , are all self-centred . |
| 6 | BBont are very interested in it , because there is natural fauna and flora there and the other thing that I think needs to be brought up is the site they are proposing is next door to a leisure park . |
| 7 | Colin checked round the room , the only appliance plugged in was the fire . |
| 8 | Because it will be er it will be cut down is the word into finished products and raw stock . |
| 9 | The object he had tripped over was the pistol ; it was so heavy that it was all he could do to raise it . |
| 10 | Less remarked on are the inadequacies and crudity of language when faced with objects in everyday interaction . |
| 11 | As it turned out , the team to be knocked out was the West German team in heat two . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |