Example sentences of "[verb] be [art] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The relationship between Jacques and his Master is founded on a tacit agreement that the roles they occupy are the reverse of what they appear to be , but when Jacques tries to articulate this he risks losing his power which depends on its going unacknowledged .
2 Of all Christians , those of the Orthodox family have remained the most conservative , Their cultural roots go back to the Byzantine Empire and there has been no event for them comparable to the Reformation or Vatican II .
3 ‘ We have been out searching , but there has been no sign of him .
4 ‘ There has been no contact between them since then , apart from a limited contact with the children a short time ago . ’
5 ‘ There has been no contact between them since then , apart from a limited contact with the children a short time ago . ’
6 If they are you would not want to raise output above its natural level because there has been no rise in your relative price .
7 Incarceration has been no barrier to his relentless campaign .
8 There has been no danger to you or your people since the second strike .
9 There has been no sentiment for it .
10 He has been no trouble with my two GSD bitches but while out walking , he flies at other dogs .
11 Well , young lady , I wanted to be good when I was younger , but life has been a struggle for me , and I 've become as hard and tough as a rubber ball .
12 Yet we must be careful before blaming politicians for this mundane campaign , since in many respects it has been a reflection of ourselves .
13 There has been a rearrangement of his wealth .
14 ‘ I realise this has been a blow to you , Mr Pertwee .
15 This is how one of the more sceptical psychiatrists involved later described the patient 's case : ‘ I must admit that such a remarkable response has been a surprise to me .
16 The ark has been a sign of his presence .
17 There has been a possibility of my doing the Soldier 's Tale here in December , but it is still very much en l'air , as we balletists would put it — so do n't get excited yet . ’
18 Speech has been a part of our inner being ever since early childhood .
19 For many years , urban finance has been a system with which very few practitioners or academics have been totally at ease and procedures governing local-government funding have become more convoluted in the 1980s .
20 ‘ Nevertheless it has to be recognised that there is an unbroken series of dicta in judgments of appellate courts to the effect that there is a judicial discretion to exclude admissible evidence which has been ‘ obtained ’ unfairly or by trickery or oppressively , although except in Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 , there never has been a case in which those courts have come across conduct so unfair , so tricky or so oppressive as to justify them in holding that the discretion ought to have been exercised in favour of exclusion .
21 The man has been a thorn in our side since the day he arrived three weeks ago .
22 That bitch has been a thorn in our flesh for too long .
23 But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth .
24 Situated in an ideal position on the front a Bellagio , the Du Lac has been a favourite with our clients for over a decade .
25 The fear is unfounded and can be eased by remembering firstly that the existence of sums of US$ in NOSTRO accounts is only possible because there has been a transfer into them from the US money stock .
26 This has been a tradition in my family for as long as I can remember because during the week , everyone in my family has a main meal in the evening and sandwiches at lunchtime .
27 The result has been a consolidation of their power as men , over heterosexual women and lesbians , within the work , and the organization .
28 " If there has been a rapprochement between you , " she said , " I think you are very mean not to have told me .
29 The task ahead has been clearly recognised and 1992–93 has been a year in which we have continued to apply our skills and core technologies across the wider spectrum of human endeavour from healthcare to the care of the environment in which we live .
30 But does Attalli feel EBRD has been a success in its grander strategy ?
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