Example sentences of "the [adj] be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite true that the Americans were at least as worried about the British as the British were about them , but for very different reasons . |
| 2 | Who can they turn to if the native landowners and the French are against them ? " |
| 3 | A POLICEMAN is killed , and the prime minister cuts short his holiday : that is how sensitive the Japanese are about their involvement in foreign wars . |
| 4 | We are used to the idea of exercises for our muscular body and even breathing exercises but the following are for our major internal organs . |
| 5 | The following was from someone on the League Of Ireland soccer list . |
| 6 | Your job is to help your subordinate understand why certain objectives must be achieved and to ensure that the work of the subordinate is within his knowledge and ability . |
| 7 | He felt like a moth that had been sucked in to a candle flame , but the fluttering was in his chest . |
| 8 | On one of the brick piers was inscribed the words , ‘ The poor are with ye always ’ . |
| 9 | And then you see they when the crafty was by they used to set out the next day , some maybe taken for the West Mainland and some taken for and some were . |
| 10 | The pedlar was behind her . |
| 11 | Most people in a residential home for the elderly are in their eighties . |
| 12 | Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life . |
| 13 | The old adage that the Irish are at their most dangerous when they are at their lowest ebb has been consigned to the dustbin as a forgotten tradition . |
| 14 | These were the people that orchestrated the crimes , using the MID 's as their henchmen . |
| 15 | So it 's use the red obviously the title and the red 's for your introduction to say what you 're going to say then say it by using your greens and then say what you 've said by going back to the red and coming back to your objective . |
| 16 | And one daughter is taking A levels and the other is on her way , I 'm not sure if she 's actually taking O er GCSEs or |
| 17 | Conservatives may well believe that the abuse of their authority by men is wrong , but that relationships in which one sex is in such a position that it could so abuse the other are in themselves wrong can not be admitted . |
| 18 | The Western was in its dying throes , but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 kept it hanging on by a thread . |
| 19 | To add to the degree of difficulty in Lisbon , the Portuguese are without their outstanding striker Paulo Futre , banned for two matches after being sent off in an earlier game . |